Rudi Cossey

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
118
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
100
World reputation
40
International appearances
0
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
6
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
3

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 12
Hardness of training 8
Youngsters 12
People management 13
Discipline 8
Determination 11
Buying players 7

9 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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: Fitness. Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Fitness.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Fitness
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 10
Defending 13
Technical 7
Tactical 13
Mental 10
Fitness Not recorded
Attacking 10
Defending 13
Technical 7
Tactical 13
Mental 10

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

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

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

Tactical style

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

Squad rotation 10

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, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 24 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
RWDM Brussels Player 1981-07-01 1990-06-30 Ended
Club Brugge KV Player 1990-07-01 1995-06-30 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Player 1995-07-01 — Current
Sporting Lokeren Manager 1997-07-01 1997-08-15 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Manager 1997-08-16 1997-08-19 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Manager 1997-08-20 1998-06-30 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Assistant Manager 1998-07-01 1999-09-08 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Manager 1999-08-16 1999-09-08 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Assistant Manager 1999-09-09 2006-02-12 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Manager 2006-02-13 2006-06-30 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Assistant Manager 2006-07-01 2006-10-28 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Manager 2006-10-29 2006-12-03 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Assistant Manager 2006-12-04 2007-06-30 Ended
Oud-Heverlee Leuven Manager 2007-07-01 2008-08-26 Ended
RAEC Mons Assistant Manager 2008-09-01 2009-06-30 Ended
RAEC Mons Manager 2009-07-01 2009-11-23 Ended
Sporting Lokeren Assistant Manager 2010-07-01 2015-06-30 Ended
KAA Gent Assistant Manager 2015-07-01 2016-06-17 Ended
K Racing Club Genk Assistant Manager 2016-06-17 2017-01-04 Ended
Club Brugge KV Assistant Manager 2017-06-16 2019-06-30 Ended
KSV Cercle Brugge Assistant Manager 2019-07-01 2019-12-06 Ended
R Antwerp FC Assistant Manager 2020-07-01 2022-06-30 Ended
Royal Charleroi Sporting Club Coach 2022-07-01 2025-06-17 Ended
Oud-Heverlee Leuven Assistant Manager 2025-06-17 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-06-17
Contract start
2025-06-17
Expires
2027-06-30
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 280 —

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Club Brugge KV 75

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Franky Van der Elst 90
— 90
Ivan Leko 90
Hugo Henri Broos 80

Personal information

Date of birth
1961-08-02
Nationality
Belgium
Birth city
Brussels
Joined current club
2025-06-17

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 17
Ambition —
Controversy 10
Loyalty 18
Pressure —
Professionalism 12
Sportsmanship 5
Temperament —