Rudi Cossey

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Rudi Cossey
Personal information
Date of birth (1961-08-02) 2 August 1961 (age 61)
Place of birth Brussels, Belgium
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
Charleroi (assistant manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980–1990 RWDM
1990–1995 Club Brugge 99 (6)
1995–1996 Lokeren 2 (0)
Managerial career
1995–1999 Lokeren (assistant)
1999 Lokeren (caretaker manager)
1999–2006 Lokeren (assistant)
2006 Lokeren
2006 Lokeren (assistant)
2006 Lokeren (caretaker manager)
2006–2007 Lokeren (assistant)
2007–2008 OH Leuven
2008–2009 Mons (assistant)
2009 Mons
2010–2015 Lokeren (assistant)
2015–2016 Gent (assistant)
2016–2017 Genk (assistant)
2017–2019 Club Brugge (assistant)
2019 Cercle Brugge (assistant)
2020–2022 Antwerp (assistant)
2022– Charleroi (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rudi Cossey (born 2 August 1961) is a Belgian football coach and former player. He was assistant coach of KSC Lokeren OV from 1995 to 2007, and in this team, he could also take a few times the responsibility of the interim head coach. Later on, he was coach of OH Leuven and Mons. In the summer of 2010, he returned to Lokeren as assistant coach. Cossey then became assistant consecutively at Gent in 2015, Genk in 2016, Club Brugge in 2017, Cercle Brugge in 2019, Antwerp in 2020 and Charleroi in 2022.

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