PORTRAIT. Michel Verschueren was one of a kind: the hardest working manager who regarded strikers as lazy people | Football

Michel Verschueren (91) – the visionary who with a booming voice propelled his Anderlecht forward as the standard-bearer of Belgian football – was not at all shy. Not even for a harsh statement. Portrait of the man behind “Football is like women: unreliable.” and “To whine and drink the youth always has money and time, but not to pay the increased school fees.” Still, according to intimates, he was a rough shell with a white kernel.