Sports year overview: Jeroen Sap looks back with Hans Vandeweghe and Renaat Schotte

Club Brugge won its third consecutive title last year, but will see its trainer Alfred Schreuder leave for Ajax. Carl Hoefkens succeeds the Dutchman, and manages to let Club spend the winter in the Champions League in Europe. But in our own country it is much less so. An early exit in the cup and 12 points behind Racing Genk killed Hoefkens. Well, he is by no means the only trainer who falls victim to panic football at the club boards, resulting in an unprecedented trainer carousel. “Belgium is the Albania of Northern Europe in that respect. Of the 18 trainers in the first division, only four have been with their club for longer than six months. How on earth can you build something up, especially when you also know that player turnover has never been so great,” Hans Vandeweghe puts his finger on the wound.

In part one we also dive into the room with almost logical titles for Knack Roeselare and BC Oostende. In indoor sports, the scale-enlargement card is being drawn more and more.