Career
Born in Geel, Van Milders was a talented entrepreneur. 1970 the brothers sold their brewery and started bottling Coca-Cola. As from 1976, they were catering Carestel-road restaurants.
Van Milders sometimes spoke out very strange expressions about his entrepreneurial management.
A good one-liner of his was: "As a child, what did we know about money? Nothing at all! And now, I"ve got grandchildren playing with their money on the stock markets."
As from July 1988 to 1998, Van Milders was he president of Associate of Arts Gent. This soccer team was just degraded out of Belgian First Division and the team had a heavy burden.
Van Milders used his rich bank account to help the team financially. In soccer, this meant a large difference at Associate of Arts Gent.
He transferred some well-known players to the team, making the way of playing more attractive.
After a number of years, the team played European games again. This was the best European result under his guidance. In the Belgian competition, it did not work out so well the next years, but the foundations of the successes were laid.
Van Milders died in Knokke-Heist.
