Belgian international goalkeeper, nicknamed The Wall. Olympic champion and three-time FIH Goalkeeper of the Year.
Trained at Royal Evere White Star, Vincent Vanasch built his path step by step before becoming one of the top field hockey goalkeepers of his generation.
Olympic champion and three-time FIH Goalkeeper of the Year, he has more than 280 caps with the Red Lions. In Tokyo 2020, Belgium captured its first men's Olympic title thanks to his decisive shoot-out saves.
Olympic Games
Over 280 caps with the Red Lions.
Three-time FIH Goalkeeper of the Year.
Tokyo 2020, decisive saves in the shoot-outs.
Reference goalkeeper, mentor and role model.
Three-time Belgian champion, three-time German champion, two-time Dutch champion, two-time European club champion, then European champion, world champion and Olympic champion with the Red Lions: everything in Vincent Vanasch's career seems simple, beautiful and grand. Yet for the man they would call The Wall, the wall was not built in a day. "Too big", "too small", "too mentally fragile": nothing was guaranteed. In his career there were more defeats than victories. But driven by passion, supported by his teammates and galvanized by skeptics, he laid every brick patiently, collectively, on one cement: family and friends. In this sensitive autobiography, "Vinchou" shares the secrets and doubts that marked his journey from the White Star family club to the Olympic gold in Tokyo. On the double-decker bus that takes the national team from the airport to the center of Brussels to meet thousands of fans, Vincent Vanasch takes the time to remember every step and every person who mattered. How did the Red Lions learn to win? How can a kid from Evere become three-time world goalkeeper of the year? Vincent Vanasch takes you on this magnificent bus ride. Enjoy.
Vincent revisits every step, from White Star to Olympic gold, and explains how the Red Lions learned to win.
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