Marc Overmars becomes the new technical director of Antwerp
Marc Overmars will be the new technical director of Antwerp. The director of football affairs in Belgium who resigned at Ajax due to cross-border behavior has a contract for several years. He still will be today.
Yancko Beeckman, Mike Verweij
The ambitious Antwerp in the Overmars Ajax case as a private matter and especially to the enormous track record of the former player of Ajax, Arsenal, FC Barcelona and Orange, among others. As an Ajax manager, he brought the Amsterdam club back to the European top. Overmars has recorded a positive result of 350 million euros since his arrival in 2013, Premier League players such as Tadic and Daley Blind returned to the Eredivisie and reached the final of the Europa League and the semi-battle of the Champions League with Ajax.
His new employer in Belgium also hopes to achieve success under Overmars. Five years ago, Antwerp still played in the second division. It was announced during the promotion that the club has come into the hands of Paul Gheysens, owner of construction company Ghelamco and one of the richest Belgians.
The ambitions of the West Flemish are sky high. In recent years, he has already invested around seventy million euros in Antwerp. In no time, Gheysens has taken the Great Old to the top of Belgian football.
In the summer of 2020, Gheysens already achieved a first success, by winning the Belgian Cup with Antwerp. hunger, however, is not lifted. Gheysens aims for the very highest: taking the first national title since 1957 with Antwerp.
the coarse means are not shunned. For example, former Red Devil Radja Nainggolan was brought to the Bosuil last summer. The arrival of Marc Overmars would set up a new stunt.
Until last year, Luciano D’Onofrio was responsible for the transfers at Antwerp. Since the Italo-Belgian left the club last year after internal struggles, general manager Sven Jaecques took over duties.