{"id":5617,"date":"2026-06-26T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:24:15","slug":"hearts-wouter-vrancken-marks-fresh-start-at-data-driven-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5617","title":{"rendered":"Hearts: Wouter Vrancken marks fresh start at data-driven club"},"content":{"rendered":"


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With all this flux and not a lot of time to bed everything in, the question is whether Hearts can push on again at the top of the table.<\/p>\n

Vranckin was clear the remit was to do just that, and in his first job outside of Belgium he appears to relish that challenge.<\/p>\n

He can also sympathise with what Hearts went through last season, losing the title in the dying minutes of a thrilling campaign.<\/p>\n

The same thing happened to Vrancken at Gent in 2023, when a late Royal Antwerp goal on the final day denied his team the title.<\/p>\n

“It takes time (to get over) for sure,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But with aiming on the new season and working for the new goals, that’s the only way to get over it and to work for it. <\/p>\n

“I hope that we’re on the good side of the story, let’s say, the next time. I think it’s just putting the energy in it and what’s left to come and not looking back too much.<\/p>\n

“The best clubs to work in are those that have ambitions. I think this is a good ambition, it’s a good point of focus, a good goal to have. And then we have to work for it and aim as high as possible and then we’ll see where we’ll end.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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