The new trainer of KV Mechelen, Danny Buijs, spoke to the Belgian press for the first time today. Buijs will be given the heavy task of completing the good work of Wouter Vrancken, who left KV Mechelen for an adventure at Racing Genk. He spoke to his successful predecessor: “We had a good click, it is possible that we will hear each other again.”
First contact at the beginning of May
The fresh face in the Belgian trainer landscape was looking forward to introducing itself. “The first contacts were already made at the beginning of May. Then I visited 2 matches here in the AFAS stadium and I had a very good feeling about that. That is why I am very happy to be the new trainer of KV Mechelen.”
The 2 matches I attended in Play-Off 2 gave me a very good feeling. I am very happy to be the new coach of this club.
“I knew KV Mechelen by name, but as a trainer in another competition you are in your own bubble. So I did not know how the club played.” Danny Buijs has been the trainer of Groningen for the past 4 years, in the Dutch Eredivisie.
“But in preparation I have spoken a lot with people at the club or who have a past, such as Harmen Kaperus, the goalkeeper coach of Groningen who was on Vrancken’s staff in his first season at Mechelen.”
The “Simeone” of the Netherlands
Danny Buijs is very honest about himself, because in the Netherlands he is known as a temperamental trainer and the comparison with Diego Simeone, the trainer of Atletico Madrid, is often made. “That comparison doesn’t hold. In the Netherlands you get a label pretty quickly.”
The comparison with Simeone does not hold. In the Netherlands you get a label pretty quickly. I’m a normal guy who shows his emotions.
“I’m a normal guy, who wants to work hard, who also shows his emotions and that’s why you sometimes make some mistakes, then you have to sit on the blisters. But that’s how you develop yourself.”
“The nature of the beast will never disappear. That should not be removed, because it is also a strength of mine.”
Contact with Vrancken
The new coach of KV Mechelen has done his homework thoroughly and made contact with his predecessor.
“Mechelen has had good times with Wouter over the past 4 years, so I absolutely wanted to speak to him. We had a good click, it may just be that we will speak more often in the future.”
Attacking football
The Dutchman is not known for sticking to one type of game type. “You depend on the material you have. At Kozakboys I played attractive and attacking football, at Groningen it was more defensive.”
But he hopes to continue the line of recent years at Mechelen and even expand it further. “I can’t guarantee it, but I will do everything I can.”
The only thing I hope is that at the end of the season everyone who cares about KV Mechelen can look back on the season with satisfaction.
“I can’t say anything about the goal yet. I don’t know yet what the selection will be and what it will look like for other teams. The only thing I hope is that at the end of the season everyone who sees KV Mechelen has a warm heart. can look back on the season with satisfaction.”
“We will do everything we can to get as high as possible in the rankings, hopefully with the characteristic attacking football of KV Mechelen of recent years. That’s why people come to the stadium.”
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