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The Belgium national field hockey team (nicknamed the Red Lions) represents Belgium in the international field hockey competitions. As of July 2014, they are coached by Jeroen Delmee, who succeeded the Dutch trainer Marc Lammers. Their greatest achievements in international tournaments to date are reaching six semifinals at the EuroHockey Nations Championship since 1995, including a third place in 2007 and runners-up in 2013, winning the Champions Challenge in 2011 and winning the bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. ==History== Belgium first played hockey in 1902 and their first club was formed two years later. In 1907, several clubs established the Belgian Hockey Association. Belgium played its first international match against Germany, and was one of the founding members of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). Between 1920 and 1978, Belgium appeared in two of the first three World Cups and in eleven out of thirteen Summer Olympics. After the successful early years (before the 1950s) with three times being among the best five at the Summer Olympics, it would last six decades before Belgium reached the international field hockey top again from the 1990s on. The team was coached by Adam Commens until the end of 2010 before being replaced by Colin Batch as Adam Commens had been appointed coach of the Australian women's national team. Commens has been coach of Belgium's national men's team since 2007, and led them to their first Olympics appearance in 32 years when the team competed in Beijing in 2008. He will begin his role with the Hockeyroos early 2011. After the 2007 Champions Challenge, hosted in their own country, they ended at the last (sixth) place. This prompted coach Gilles Bonnet and his assistant-coach Pascal Kina to be replaced by Adam Commens and assistant Murray Richards. From 2012 on Marc Lammers trained the Belgian squad with assistants Jeroen Delmee and Philippe Goldberg. After Lammers resigned in July 2014, Delmee became his successor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgium men's national field hockey team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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