Eric Van Meir

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
93
Potential ability
95
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
95
World reputation
35
International appearances
34
Coaching qualification
1

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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
57
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness42 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength42 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping21 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)45 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (technical)43 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)47 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (technical)43 / 1002.5 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
0
Hair length code
0
Skin tone code
2

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 10
Judging player potential 11
Tactical knowledge 9
Youngsters 14
Motivating 12
People management 9
Discipline 11
Determination 5

8 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking. Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Attacking
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking Not recorded
Defending 9
Technical 7
Tactical 9
Mental 11
Fitness 8
Defending 9
Technical 7
Tactical 9
Mental 11
Fitness 8

5 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Attacking.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 19 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
K Berchem Sport 2004 Player 1985-07-01 1991-06-30 Ended
Royal Charleroi Sporting Club Player 1991-07-01 1996-06-30 Ended
K Lierse SK Player 1996-07-01 2002-07-01 Ended
R Standard de Liège Player 2002-07-01 2003-07-01 Ended
K Lierse SK Player 2003-07-01 — Current
K Lierse SK Assistant Manager 2003-07-01 2010-09-20 Ended
K Lierse SK Manager 2010-09-20 2010-12-31 Ended
K Lierse SK Chief Scout 2011-01-01 2011-05-01 Ended
KFC Turnhout Manager 2011-05-01 2011-06-30 Ended
K Lierse SK Assistant Manager 2012-07-01 2012-11-12 Ended
K Lierse SK Scout 2012-11-12 2013-02-18 Ended
K Lierse SK Assistant Manager 2013-02-18 2013-03-14 Ended
K Lierse SK Manager 2013-03-14 2013-06-30 Ended
K Lierse SK Assistant Manager 2013-07-01 2013-12-31 Ended
K Berchem Sport 2004 Manager 2014-07-01 2014-09-28 Ended
K Lierse SK Assistant Manager 2015-07-01 2015-09-13 Ended
K Lierse SK Manager 2015-09-13 2015-09-24 Ended
K Lierse SK Manager 2015-09-24 2017-03-15 Ended
K Lyra-Lierse Head of Youth Development 2023-01-01 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Belgium Coach 2019-07-01 2024-06-30 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2023-01-01
Contract start
2025-06-30
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 239 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
Dutch Yes —
French No 5
English No 5
German No 3

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Disliked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
— 90
Nico Van Kerckhoven 85
Stanley Purl Menzo 80
— 75
Albert De Roover 75
— 70
— 60
Robert Peeters 50

Disliked people

PersonRating
Pieter Maes 95
Benjamin Nicaise 50
— 25

Personal information

Date of birth
1968-02-28
Nationality
Belgium
Birth city
Deurne
Joined current club
2023-01-01

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 10
Ambition 11
Controversy —
Loyalty 14
Pressure 15
Professionalism 13
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 16