Volleyclub Par-ky Menen is saved and remains at the highest level: The hell will be next season still burn

Think A loud ouch to anyone who is concerned about Par-ky Menen. The board allowed for the storage against Roeselare to know that the club next season to continue at the highest level. The volleyploeg came in trouble after chairman and main sponsor Pierre Vandeputte in January, his farewell announced. There was a doomsday scenario feared with the first team disappearing would be.

Immediately after that bomb of Vandeputte created a working group on ex-manager Anne Verhelst (56) . Together with Jan Desmet (CEO Par-ky), Jo Vandecasteele, Frédéric Baelen, Henk Beghein, Stijn Vanbiervliet, Emmanuel Vlegels, Bo Decramer and Herman Wenes, she started to operation rescue. “The budget of around 350,000 euros around to get benefited our priority and now that us for about 80% successful, dare we take the risk and we resolutely continue with this club in its current form. There are still a lot of sponsordossiers in the pipeline and of course we hope that there is still effective deals from arising,” says Verhelst. “We want the coming years, still competing at the top of the League A. A walk-on role in the series, we see not.”

There was Saturday just despair at the supporters when the speaker a minute of silence asked for the storage. “Not because the club is in the mourning, but because we have the full attention of the audience wanted at our announcement,” explains Verhelst. When that succeeded, there appeared on the ledboarding around the grounds " We have big news. The Hell continues to burn. Because Par-ky Menen goes by’. The fans responded, of course, with a thunderous applause.

New association

What now follows is the creation of a new association that the contracts of the old association takes over. It involves, among others, about spelerscontracten and commitments with kledijsponsors. Meanwhile, there is a new and rejuvenated board -the previous served the collective dismissal in that various working groups established. The sports cell in which Yves Dehaene, Gert Beghein, Tom Florin and Anne Verhelst are, stands for a busy period. “We have to pull a new trainer, and then we can players to bind us. Already quite a few candidates offered their services, that is so certainly in the short term in order. Half of the current player base is still under contract, but it is not yet certain whether these all also remain. That the coming weeks, will become clear”, said Anne Verhelst the club between 2000 and 2010 led. She is also the new chairman? “No, that is not the intention. Maybe we work even without, although officially there is always someone who has to be indicated. Anyone who feels called to that title, to wear, you may still be able to log. If he or she at the same time, also some money in the club can pump, it is absolutely perfect.”