Axel Smeets

  • Belgium
Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
86
Potential ability
95
Home reputation
35
Current reputation
35
World reputation
15
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
12
Hair length code
0
Skin tone code
4

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 8
Judging player potential 10
Judging staff ability 7
Tactical knowledge 9
Hardness of training 8
Youngsters 13
Motivating 8
People management 10
Discipline 7
Determination 10
Buying players 8
Negotiating 5

12 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 8
Defending 7
Technical 8
Tactical 8
Mental 7
Fitness 5
Attacking 8
Defending 7
Technical 8
Tactical 8
Mental 7
Fitness 5

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Set pieces 7

1 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Attacking, Directness, Tempo, Width, Depth, Pressing, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 11 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
R Standard de Liège Player 1993-07-01 1994-07-01 Ended
KAA Gent Player 1994-07-01 — Current
U.D. Salamanca S.A.D. Player 1997-01-01 1998-07-01 Ended
KV Kortrijk Player 1998-07-01 1999-07-01 Ended
Sheffield United Player 1999-07-01 2000-01-01 Ended
K Lierse SK Player 2000-01-01 — Current
MKE Ankaragücü Player 2003-07-01 2004-01-01 Ended
Hamarkameratene Player 2004-01-01 — Current
RSC Anderlecht Scout — 2022-06-30 Ended
RCS Brainois Manager 2022-07-01 2023-05-22 Ended
RCS Brainois Manager 2023-05-22 2024-01-29 Ended

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
French Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
RSC Anderlecht 70

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
KAA Gent 70
MKE Ankaragücü 50

Liked people

PersonRating
Lenny Smeets 100
— 90
Félix-Michel Ngongé 70
Frank Vercauteren 70
— 70

Disliked people

PersonRating
— 65

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) Democratic Republic of Congo 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1974-04-12
Nationality
Belgium
Birth city
Brussels
Joined current club
2024-01-29

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 13
Ambition 11
Controversy 3
Loyalty 8
Pressure 14
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 11