Club Brugge is once again dreaming of the next round in the Champions League. After a difficult period, Blauw-Zwart won this week in distant Kazakhstan, meaning a real ‘final’ awaits with Marseille. With Romeo Vermant, Club has a scoring striker, who now opened his heart and melted all hearts.
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Romeo Vermant is the textbook example of a Bruges product. He went through the youth academy, where he grew not only as a striker but also as a person. A short loan to Westerlo completely ignited the flame.
The transition to the first team did not come with drums, but with patience and hard work. Minutes were scarce, expectations were high, but Vermant remained level-headed. Every raid was an opportunity, every training a test. No shortcuts, but confidence in the process that has made Club Brugge successful so many times.
New phase in life
In the meantime, he is on firmer footing, also off the field. He lives alone, a new phase in his life. Alone alone? He smiles somewhat mysteriously at that Newspaper of West Flanders. “There is someone, yes, but sorry, that is private for me.” Vermant guards his personal life with the same discipline with which he approaches his career. Some things are for the public, others remain his.
What he does like to share is the close bond with his family. His parents are his permanent anchor, especially his father as a sounding board for everything related to football. And then there is his sister Elena, five years older, who means just the opposite to him. He doesn’t talk to her about tactics or goals. She and her husband run a bakery and it is precisely that daily, earthly life that helps him disconnect from football.
It keeps him grounded. The bond goes even deeper. Vermant is godfather to her daughter Maeze and that makes even the most reserved striker melt. “I’m crazy about her. As if she were my own daughter.” He laughs when it comes to wanting to have children, but it is clear that family is not an afterthought for him. He calls watching Maeze grow up something very special, just like the warm family bond that his parents find so important. Romeo Vermant is growing, on the field and beyond. In silence, but with meaning.
