Together with top Agents, board members of federations and clubs, directors of football companies, ex internationals and top coaches, we create the best opportunities and development for all Global M Players
Our joined Football network and expertise will expand more and more. Here are the first advisory board members
Nationality: Belgium
Date of birth: 13 August 1970
Club role: Executive Board Member at RSC Anderlecht
ECA Executive Board Member since: 2013
Current ECA roles
Biography:
Born in Brussels, Michael Verschueren grew up in a bi-lingual environment and went to a boarding school in Ghent. He obtained a master’s degree in Econometrics at the University of Brussels and spent the first ten years of his international career abroad in South America, China and Europe, where he was co-founder of a trading firm.
Raised in a football-driven environment with a father that was one of Belgium’s first professional football managers, Verschueren joined RSC Anderlecht as shareholder and strategic board member in 2010. Some years later, he joined ECA as board member as a representative of the Belgian club. In 2017, he became Chairman of ECA’s Finance Working Group and member of the UEFA UCC and CCC, representing ECA.
Verschueren is also partner of Komito Group Ltd., an international real estate development company mainly active in Benelux and Spain. He is chairman of Smart Health Valley, an incubator company hosting innovative start-up companies active in healthcare, sports and wellness. He is also director of Prestige Group, a non-profit organisation chaired by M.D. Prof. Pedro Brugada, active in the domain of heart rhythm failure for sportsmen.
Nationality: Uruguay
Date of birth: 4 July 1976
Biography:
Born in Montevideo, Romero played in the beginning of his career he played for local Defensor Sporting and C.A. Peñarol. In the summer of 2001, he was bought by La Liga side Málaga CF, teaming up with countryman Darío Silva. He was instrumental in the Andalusia club during his first four seasons, helping it to the quarterfinals of the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, via the Intertoto.
In his final two seasons, however, Romero was virtually absent from the lineups, with 2006–07 being spent in Segunda División. In early 2008 he had a brief spell with neighbours Lucena CF in Segunda División B and, at the beginning of the following year (4 February 2009), signed with Carolina RailHawks FC of the USL First Division in the United States.
Romero started working as a manager also in Spain, with amateurs Alhaurín de la Torre CF. In 2014 he returned to Málaga, joining newly appointed Javi Gracia’s coaching staff.