Sportieve Senioren/History
This page is about the history of Sportieve Senioren.
It could be included in the main teampage, but because since the start of this team so much happened it might aswell deserve its own page.
So here we go..
Season 12 (GS 25)
Prequel
Once upon a time there was a peaceful village in rural Flanders. It was a somewhat boring village with some farmers, a bar or two and for some reason a pokerclub. But the village hadn't a football team. As in Belgium basically every group of more than 5 houses had a chapel and a football team, people started to wonder why they hadn't...
Season 13 (GS 26)
Genesis
So on a sunny sunday afternoon a group of friends started their very own football team!
The team started in the newly created Belgian X.223 division.
A nice idea but there were some little problems, well they had no stadium, no team name and only 5 players.
Players weren't hard to find, after a few visits to the local bar and an advert in the local newspaper they team had all 16 players needed to found a football team.
A stadium was found just a few days before the first match. Het sportveld van het rusthuis was a 145 years old stadium, which was owned by the local old people's home De Zonneschijn. The stadium had 12.000 seats and served in the Olympic game of 1920 as home of the (later removed) "Kaatsbollen" tournament. The first match was played against a team called geonosis. 2 days before the game Cirdan Berghmans joined the team. This talented defender was bought for 120 bottles of Jupiler and a nice grass cutter. The grass cutter was sponsored by Gustaaf Conjaerts (father of the first youthpull Goris Conjaerts) who owned a grass cutters factory, which became very important in the team history..
The first season
The first game was won! Alfred Stolpe, the team star, scored the very first goal after 15 minutes. After the game the players held the first Sportieve party, in the restaurant of the Old people's home. The second game was lost against F.C. The Championees, a more professional team. Between those games VIth division club fc visvijver visited Het Sportveld van het Rusthuis, the players learned alot during this game. Meanwhile the first Sportieve fanclub was founded, is was called Hup Sportieve and consisted completely of woman above 70. The men weren't enthusiast because the football team ruined their Sunday "Kaatsbol" games.. After no more then one single day Jules Arnaud the first trainer was replaced by the Romanian salesman Dunãrel Mihai. Mihai wasn't a genie so Sportieve played it's first seasons in a 4-4-2 without any tactic. In the first weeks Guerric Varenne, Fabricio Zubeldía, Duncan Boellaard and Tim Eisenberger joined the team.
