Pour la saison 2024-2025, le club d’Embourg Volleyball propose 6 équipes adultes inscrites en compétition officielle: une Promotion messieurs, une P2 messieurs, deux P3 messieurs, une P2 dames et une P4 dames.
Embourg Volleyball est en plein développement de ses activités, et a pour objectif, de par la formation des jeunes et son ambiance familiale, rendre le volley accessible à toutes et à tous.
L’objectif moyen terme est d’être un club de référence en Province de Liège pour la formation des jeunes et le développement des talents !
Un peu d’histoire..
Selon le blog de Marc Furnémont dont le texte est repris ci-dessous (Cliquez ici pour accéder au blog)
FRIENDLY NOSTALGIA – by Philippe Halleux.
“Those who do not respect the past are not worthy of the present”.
A short quote that seems ideal to break from our daily routine of “the news” and to allow us to relive a glorious past, a past not so distant. The door is open to all the clubs that would like to share their history, so we may appreciate them better today.
Embourg, just like Seraing, wrote the best pages of volleyball in our province. Why talk about it today?
Simply because one of the actors of that fantastic odyssey we are going to relive here moved to Canada 13 years ago, at the end of the Beautiful Story. His name: FUFU, a.k.a. Marc Furnémont, the brother of the other fufu, the one who is making us suffer in the local press (not for long, unfortunately). FUFU arrived at the volleyball club in 76, when St. Bar relocated to Embourg and changed its name.
The Odyssey
In their 2nd season, 1977, Embourg are champions of Provincial 2 Division and climb to P1.
In 78, they finish 2nd behind the great team of Valcapri…
In 79, Embourg are Provincial Champions and runners-up in the Provincial Cup. They climb to National 4.
In 80, Embourg finish second in N4 with players like Fox, Pairiot, Praillet, Gonze, Lejeune et Peters.
In 81, they are champions of the same N4 and again runners-up of the Provincial Cup with Vanspauwen, Bruwier and Gras, three other great names of Liège volleyball, and move up to N3.
In 82, the great Embourg team finishes 5th in N3. This the last season for René Pairiot as coach, before the arrival of Robert Devries (father of Anne Devries, the tennis player) and of Roger Schoonbroodt, a very talented player from Welkenraedt. This is also the season when FUFU leaves for Canada…
His departure does not derail the formidable climb of his team, champions of N3 in 83, finally winners of the Provincial Cup, and who rocket to N1 after purchasing the franchise rights of Seraing, the other volleyball giant.
This is when Hanozet is playing in Embourg … as an attacker. Pierre Derbaix, is at centre, and Jean-Pierre Colin is there as well … along with many others who are less remembered, mainly because they did not pursue their career as volleyball players or coaches. Stéphane Lejeune stands out here as one of the best attackers we have seen, but who had to choose between volleyball and his studies.
In 85, the club folds for lack of funding, and it is the end of the Beautiful Story.
Today, the club has a different outlook, money is secondary, and the emphasis is with young players of both genders. »
Quelques années plus tard, et en partie grâce à la gestion de ses « nouveaux » dirigeants, Embourg Volleyball retente l’aventure à plus haut niveau, avec la création de plusieurs équipes (très) festives et compétitrices.
Pour les nostalgiques des années 2000:
Cliquez ici pour accéder à la page Skyrock de ces années là
Cliquez ici pour accéder à la page Skyrock des Triplettes 2006-2015
Les jeunes joueurs qui se forment au club, quelques transferts et une fusion avec le club de Tilff permettront la montée jusqu’en Nationale 2, où le club restera quelques saisons avant de devoir abandonner suite au coût d’une équipe à ce niveau.
Pour les membres plus récents, notre page facebook et notre page instagram reprennent des photos de ces quelques dernières années et nos dernières actualités!