SVV Red Star Brussels

SVV Red Star Brussels (839359)
managed by Lunacharsky
Full Name	Socialistische Voetbal Vereniging Red Star Brussels
Abbrevation	RSB
Slogan	Nixor, Concordia, Socialisma
Team Colors	Red, Beige, Yellow
Founded	18-08-2009
Country	Template:Flag/BEL België
Region	Brussels
Ranking	12 111
Stadium	Leon Trotski Stadium
Capacity	17 000 seats
Fan club	Revolutionair Socialisten
Coach	Template:Flag/SWE Ulrik Falkenner
League	VII.578
Kits	HomeAway

SVV Red Star Brussels (full name: Socialistische Voetbalvereniging Red Star Brussels, abbrevation RSB) is a football team in Belgium. The team currently plays in league VII.578 of the Belgian Competition.

History

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/History

Foundation

SVV Red Star Brussels started in Hattrick on 18-08-2009. The team was founded by a group of socialists in the city of Ghent, who wanted to combine their political activity with their passion for football. Lunacharsky was elected as manager for the team. The team was first officialy named SVV Red Star Gent.

First Games

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/Season 39

When RSB was founded (as Rode Ster Gent, the team played only the last round of Global Season 39 in competition IX.1432. The match against SKDH United ended in a 2-2 draw, placing RSB fifth in the competition.

First Full season

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/Season 40

SVV Red Star Brussels (then: Red Star Gent started her first full season on September 13th 2009 against United KV. RSB won easily 3-0, and immediatly showed their claims on the title for the season. However, because of two defeats against human competitor SKDH United on the second and before last matchday, RSB remained on the second position through the whole competition. Joël Crahay became topscorer with 13 goals.

The climb to the top - move to Brussels

Red Star Brussels played in division VIII.255 starting from Season 41. They performed rather well, and where able to take the first position in the competition after the seventh matchday. The team promoted to Division VII. By the end of the season, it became clear that a majority of the new supporters came from Brussels and the Walloon area, and that the team's political profile attracted large layers of foreign supporters. Therefore, the team decided to move to the Brussels town of Elsene by the end of the Season. The team started in Division VII.578, starting from Season 42.

Name & Slogan

Team Name

The current name "Red Star Brussels" was introduced on April 2nd 2010, when 94% of the supporters voted in favour of the proposition to move the team out of Ghent to Brussels, to accentuate its Internationalist approach.

Before that, the team was named "Red Star Gent", a name that was adopted on September 15th 2009, when a poll amongst supporters decided to adopt "SVV Red Star Gent" as the official name of the team. Other possibilities where "Rode Ster Gent" or "Red Star Ghent". The supporters decided to take an international stand by choosing Red Star in the name of team, thus making the meaning of this part of name understandable for international supporters. They also choose to take up the official local name of the city where the team was founded: Gent (instead of Ghent in English).

Before that day, the team was informaly called "Rode Ster Gent". Because the Belgian Season 27 had already started, the new official name came into effect during the midseason between Season 27 and Season 28.

Slogan

The official slogan of the team is "Nixor, Concordia, Socialisma", or "Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism". It is also the slogan of the trotskyist party LSP, of which most supporters are members. The slogan expresses the sportive rivalry and competition between football teams, while on the same time stressing on the class unity between all workers of different teams, or like President Jan Verhamme of the supporters' association put it: "Football rivalry is for one evening, class solidarity is forever"

Team colours, logo and kit

Team colours

The basic team color of Red Star Brussels is red. Yellow and beige are used as secondary colors. The exact offical colours can be found in this overview:

Use	Color Name	Ex.
Primary Color	Dark Red
Red Star	Red
Secundary Color	Beige
Secundary Color	Yellow
Secundary Color	Creamy White

Logo

The Red Star Brussels logo is a red shield, showing a red star in the middle, and surrounded by the rose in the fist of socialism. The shield is surrouned with banners citing the name of the team and the slogan. It replaces the old logo of a red star on a beige shield, surrounded by text banners citing the name of the team and the slogan.

The original logo was developed by fumiasty, a Polish player who used to manage Niezatapialne Pasikoniki (1825862). The logo was adapted to the new name Red Star Brussels by Canadian player Oshawa, who manages Oshawa Ogre (107171). Staff, players and supporters of Red Star Gent are eternally grateful for the professional logo.

Shirts

      Main article: Red Star Brussels/Kits

Red Star Brussels' current home shirts have light and dark red stripes with the LSP and the Brussels Region logo, and dark red pants and socks. The away shirts are white with a red diagonal stripe, and the same logo's, with beige pants and socks.

HomeAway

Shirt sponsor is trotskyist party LSP and the Brussels Region.

A history of the Red Star Gent kits can be found at this page.

Supporters and official fan club

Revolutionair Socialisten

Red Star Brussels fans during the first ever official competition match at home against United KV on September 13th, 2009.

The official fan club of Red Star Brussels is called "Revolutionair Socialisten" (or "Revolutionary Socialists" in English). Most of the members come from working-class neighbourhoods in Brussels, Ghent or the rest of Belgium, and some of them are marxist students from Ghent University. The fanclub currently has 959 members. Red Star Brussels has an increasing number of international supporters.

RSGent supporters are well known socialists, many are members of political parties like the trotskyist LSP. They often fraternise with fanclubs from other socialist teams, like Trotskijs Kämpar in Sweden or Wincobank Ironopolis in England. The "Revolutionair Socialisten" are known for their militant antiracist, antisexist and antidiscrimination attitude.

Supporters

Red Star Brussels currently has 5 Hattrick Users as an official supporter.

Name	Team	Country	Since
Cronos2	Trotskijs kämpar	Template:Flag/SWE	19-08-2009
Escafeld	Wincobank Ironopolis	Template:Flag/ENG	20-09-2009
Pelotas	Lokomotiv Veltem Back-on-Track	Template:Flag/BEL	16-12-2009
natan h	HVC Bloemekeswijk	Template:Flag/BEL	07-02-2010
RLMurian	Real Lokomotiv Moulbaix	Template:Flag/BEL	11-04-2010

International Friendlies

Visited

SVV Red Star Brussels has visited the following countries for friendly matches

Visitors

Teams from the following countries have visited SVV Red Star Brussels for friendlies

Records and achievements

Records

Note: only official matches are considered.

Record	Date	Name	Competition	Result
Biggest Home Win	04-04-2010	SVV Red Star Gent - fc lach je rijk	VIII.255	10 - 0
Biggest Away Win	03-01-2010	fc lach je rijk - SVV Red Star Gent	VIII.255	0 - 8
Biggest Home Loss	28-04-2010	SVV Red Star Brussels - Shaggy2	Cup	0 - 5
Biggest Away Loss	20-09-2009	SKDH United - Rode Ster Gent	League IX.1432	2 - 0
Most goals in a match (by Red Star Gent)	25-10-2009	Rode Ster Gent - De Rose Flikker	League	9 (9 - 0)
Most goals in a match (total)	07-02-2010	bennyzema's - SVV Red Star Gent	League	11 (3 - 8)
Largest home attendance	14-02-2010	SVV Red Star Gent - Real Lokomotiv Moulbaix	VIII.255	12 100
Lowest home attendance	27-09-2009	Rode Ster Gent - tillicollapse	IX.1432	3149
Largest transfer in	05-10-2009	Template:Flag/BEL Ignacio Lazcano	nvt	379 000 €
Largest transfer out	18-01-2010	Template:Flag/BEL Désiré Smellinckx	nvt	424 000€
Highest ranked end of season	Season 42	League VII.578	League VII	8th
Lowest ranked end of season	Season 39	League IX.1432	League IX	5th
Highest ranking overall	03-05-2010	Global Ranking Belgium	League VII.578	12 111
Lowest ranking overall	21-09-2009	Global Ranking Belgium	League IX.1432	28 523
Longest time unbeaten	04-04-2010	Season 40 Week 14 - Season 42 Week 1	League IX.1432	17
Longest run of victories	26-10-2009	Season 40 Week 3 - Week 13	League IX.1432	11
Topscorer in one Season	Season 40	Joël Crahay	League IX.1432	13
Topscorer overall	Season 40	Joël Crahay	nvt	28

Achievements

League Standings

Season
Pos.	39	40	41	42
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8

League	Color	League	Color
IX		VII
VIII		VI

Prize Shelf

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Youth Talent Program

SVV Red Star Brussels created the "Youth Talent Program" during Season 40. The goal of this program is to attract young talented players from around the globe to Brussels, to give them a good football education, and transferring them again to other teams where they can develop their talents. The training focus of the team can change troughout the seasons, and recruits are selected on their complimentarity with the current focus. The following abilities where focussed troughout the seasons:

• Season 39: Playmaking
• Season 40: Playmaking
• Season 41: Playmaking (untill Matchday 4), Scoring
• Season 42: Scoring (untill Matchday 4), Goalkeeping

Some of the players that arrived at the team in the scope of this program later stayed at the team as fixed players, examples are Bernd Bruylandt or Nikola Simić.

Current Squad

Trainer: Template:Flag/SWE Ulrik Falkenner

No. Position Player 1 GK Tom Gaal 2 WB Vítek Kozár 3 CD Stanislav Brus 4 W Alessio Bartolomeo 5 CD Nick Kusolitsch 6 W Ray de Vreede 7 CM Bernd Bruylandt 8 CM Rami Lehvonen 9 W Floris-Jan Schoep 10 CM Albertico Ferrero 11 CF Joël Crahay 12 GK Marcos Sebastián Lasarte 13 CD Jo Engelen 14 LM Gery Vasov 15 RM Leander Gielen 16 W Ignacio Lazcano

No. Position Player 17 W Lennart van de Peppel 19 CF David Colmenero Martínez 20 RM/LM Drahomír Pivec 21 LWB/RWB Jean-Rémy Communal 22 CF Fryderyk Młynarczak 23 A Nikola Simić 24 F Leonardo Rubén Tasca 25 W Eloïme Cleda 26 GK Eugen Kalapać 27 GK Zacarías Blanco 28 F Pedro Hilário Guia 29 GK Johannes Castiau 30 CD Ilie Plopeanu 31 CD Rafał Murzyński 32 GK Marcel Wiercigroch

Former players: see: Red Star Brussels/Former Players

Red Star Brussels
Seasons: 39 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 45 - 46 - 47 - 48 - 49 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 63 - 64 - 65 - 66 - 67 - 68 - 69 - 70 - 71 - 72 - 73 - ...
See Also
Red Star Brussels - Lunacharsky - Rode Ster Paramaribo - Red Star Tunis

Teams in Brussels (Belgium )

Red Star Brussels | SC Brussels United