Ghent team wins World Cup for lawyers

A team of Ghent lawyers has become world lawyers’ football champions in Marrakesh. This is not a separate football variant, the only exceptional thing is that all the teams are made up of lawyers.

Radio 2, Tom De Decker, Mo 16 May 2022

The Ghent lawyers’ team, led by captain Thomas Gillis, won the final against a French team in Marrakesh last weekend. Before that, it had already won against teams from Indonesia, India, Mexico and Morocco. Completely unexpectedly, the title did not come as a surprise. Two years ago, the Ghent Lawyers Football Team, or “FC Balie”, also became European champions.

“We knew we had a good team, a very good team, we also spent a lot of time putting it together,” Thomas Gillis says. “And for the rest you depend on a number of factors. But everyone stayed fit throughout the tournament. After all, we played six 80-minute games. We also owe that to our technical team of three people and the physiotherapist who was with us.”

The cup is currently still with someone from the technical staff, but will eventually get a place in the Ghent Courthouse.