Spirou Charleroi Spirou Charleroi Spirou Charleroi, for sponsorship reasons Proximus Spirou, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in Charleroi. The club competes in the top Belgian League. The club's home arena is the Spiroudome. The team is named after the long-running Belgian comics magazine "Spirou". Spirou Charleroi has won the Belgian League championship ten times (1996–99, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Belgian Cup 5 times (1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2009), and the Belgian Supercup 3 times (2001, 2002, 2008). On July 29, 2014, Jacques Stas became the new head coach of the club while his predecessor Giovanni
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