Vital Borkelmans

Vital Borkelmans
	Borkelmans with Belgium in 2013.
Personal information
Full name	Vital Philomene Borkelmans
Date of birth	10 June 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Maaseik, Belgium
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1981–1986	Patro Eisden
1986–1989	Waregem
1989–2000	Club Brugge
2000–2002	AA Gent
2002–2004	Cercle Brugge
2004–2005	KFC Evergem-Center
Total
International career
1989–1998	Belgium
Managerial career
2010–2012	Dender EH
2012–2016	Belgium (assistant)
2018–2021	Jordan
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vital Philomene Borkelmans (born 10 June 1963) is a Belgian football coach and a former left fullback who mainly played for Club Brugge (350 matches with that club), in the Belgian First Division.

Club career

He also played for Patro Eisden, SV Waregem, Gent and Cercle Brugge.^[1]

International career

Borkelmans made his debut for Belgium in an August 1989 friendly match against Denmark, coming on as an 80th-minute substitute for Danny Boffin, and earned a total of 22 caps, scoring no goals.^[2] He was in the team for the 1994 and 1998 World Cups. His final international was at the latter tournament, in June 1998 against South Korea.^[3]

Managerial career

In January 2010, he was appointed manager of Dender EH in the Belgian Second Division, but fired following the relegation to the Belgian Third Division following the 2011–12 season. In July 2012, Vital Borkelmans was revealed as assistant manager to Marc Wilmots for the Belgium national football team.^[4]

In 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of Jordan,^[5] until his resignation in June 2021.^[6]