Gaëtan Englebert

Gaëtan Englebert ( born June 11, 1976 in Liège ) is a Belgian football player at the position of midfielder. After years in the Belgian and French professional football he settled in 2011 in the unterklassigen Belgian football leagues and plays since 2012 for the RFC Liege, his former youth club where he also managed the breakthrough in adult football.

Career

Association

Englebert started his career in 1986 in the youth of Villers l' Eveque JS until a year later he moved to the youth department of the RFC Liège. In 1995, he was pulled into the first team and graduated in the 1996/97 season 32 games in which he scored six goals. Then switched to VV St. Truiden. After two years, 66 games and four goals, he moved to league rivals and former runner-up FC Bruges. There he quickly rose to first-team regular and won with Bruges total of nine titles. The First Division, he won with his team in the years 2002/ 03, 2004/05. These three victories came in the Belgian FA Cup in 2002, 2004 and 2007 and four victories in the Belgian football Supercup 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He played from 1999 to 2008 254 league games for Bruges where he met 22 times. Englebert completed 49 games in qualifying and main round of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup, scoring two goals.

At 32, he joined in June 2008 for French second division side Tours FC, where he signed a two-year contract. After two years in Tours, he did not renew his contract and then moved in August 2010 to league rivals FC Metz. After only one season with FC Metz, Englebert returned in the summer of 2011 back to Belgium and signed a 2 year contract in Division A for Coxyde VV.

National

Englebert made ​​his debut on 28 February 2001 in the dress of the " Red Devils " at 10:1 victory over San Marino. He stood at the Football World Cup 2002 in the Belgian squad but came to no single application. By 2006, he completed nine caps, a hit not succeed in doing.

Achievements

  • Belgian champion: 2003, 2005
  • Belgian FA Cup: 2002, 2004, 2007
  • Belgian Football Supercup: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
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