Beerschot and the 1920 Olympic Games

In 1920, the Olympic Games were held in our country for the first and, for the time being, only time. In April 1919, the International Olympic Committee chose Antwerp as the host city. The opportunity for the local organisers to put the city of Antwerp and the fledgling multi-sports club Beerschot in the spotlight. The organisation became a story of trial and error. Of success and failure. Of megalomania and realism. And of sporting triumphs, not least of the Belgian national football team and several Beerschot athletes. In Beerschot and the Olympic Games of 1920, Beerschot chronicler Danny Geerts proudly and with a swollen purple-white heart tells about the important place of Beerschot in that Olympic story. He honours the Beerschotters of the pioneering period and at the same time makes critical comments on their often insane ideas and out-of-world decisions. Danny Geerts (1958) is a supporter, press officer and in-house journalist for Beerschot. His other great passion is the Olympic Games. In this book he unites both. He previously wrote 100 years of Beerschot (1999) and Carnival on 't Kiel (2015).