Football career In 1895, his father purchased an old racecourse near the "Beerschothof" park in Kiel, in the south of Antwerp, which consisted of a 19-hectare plot of land with stables, changing rooms, chalet, and a grandstand, and when Alfred saw these facilities in 1899, he quickly realized its potential as a multi-sports club, and immediately suggested this idea to his father, who approves it, and hence Beerschot Athletic Club is born on 3 September 1899. His father died a few weeks later in November, so Alfred became the owner of the facilities and the club, which he named Beerschot because of a nearby wooded park called "Beerschotshof", and which had departments in
field hockey, polo,
cricket,
tennis,
athletics and football. Grisar sought advice for his start in management and surrounded himself with friends to help him, giving each of them a sports section to manage, but choosing his favorite sport for himself, football, whose section was started in February 1900, and then officially registered in July of that year. Among the players who moved were the Potts brothers (
Herbert and
Walter), the Robyns brothers (Jan and Paul), with Herbert Potts and Jan Robyns being named
captain and vice-captain of the football team, who played their first match on 6 May 1900, in a
friendly game against the Antwerp Reserves. On 15 May, Beerschot officially became a member of the
Belgian FA, which allowed them to participate in the
1900–01 Belgian First Division, making their official debut on 21 October 1900, in which Grisar started as a goalkeeper and helped his club to a 10–2 victory over
FC Brugeois. The two sides contested the so-called
Coupe Vanden Abeele, which was offered by Beerschot's secretary Frédéric Vanden Abeele, and Grisar himself featured as Belgium's goalkeeper in the second match on 5 January 1902, in which he kept a clean sheet in a 2–0 win. ==References==