Mats Rits

Mats Rits ( born July 18, 1993, Antwerp) is a Belgian football player at the position of midfielder. Since 2011 he is the pro squad of Ajax Amsterdam with gaming operations in the Eredivisie, the top division in Dutch football, but should initially mainly in the reserve team ( Jong Ajax) are used and are built there.

Career

Youth

Rits began his active career as a football player in 1999 at the junior level of division club FC Walem from the small village Walem in the province of Antwerp. There he was active until 2001 when young and then moved to the youth department of the Belgian tradition club Lierse SK. He went through various youth leagues until 2004 and then moved to his hometown for the offspring of Germinal Beerschot, which he joined in since then and already was captain of several youth teams there.

Also qualifies or he was in his early youth until today as one of the most promising young talents that have ever grown in Belgian football. With good performances he made it a number of European top clubs such as Real Madrid, Ajax, RSC Anderlecht and Manchester United 's attention. Between his 15th and 16th birthday Rits got several offers from major European clubs, but said all off and stuck to his original club. According to some media reports on the result of the young midfielder was close to signing a contract with the Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam before Rits is still, however, decided shortly before the financial statements and as a base called his family and the school.

Club career

After the young Belgian midfielder decided to remain with Germinal Beerschot, was ordered from the season 2009/10 of the U-19 team of the association in the senior squad, where he was able to very quickly gain a foothold and began to establish the same. His professional debut in the highest Belgian football league was Rits at the age of 16 years and 77 days when he appeared as a substitute in a 3-1 home win over the KVC Westerlo in 31 minutes for the injured Colombian Daniel Cruz on October 3, 2009. Already in his debut game showed the young Belgian of his class and in the 60 minutes achieved the same evening after a presentation by Bart Goor goal to 1:1. After the team after 89 minutes with a goal by Faris Haroun took the lead 2-1, the 16 -year-old central midfielder put one better and decided in the 90th minute the game in favor of the home team, as he another goal after submission of Tosin Dosunmu achieved. After the good performance in his pro team Rits was used until the end of the season in five league games, although he came here only lasted for a few minutes short sessions. Furthermore, also came Rits to use one in the Belgian Cup when he came into the game in a 3-0 victory over the KMSK Deinze in the 73rd minute for the scorers to 1:0, Sherjill MacDonald.

Although integral part of the club's youth was still standing Rits in the 2010/11 season in the squad of the professional team. This season brought the young midfielder on seven scoreless league inserts, four inserts in the Europa League play-offs and an insert in the Belgian Football Cup, in which he almost only served as a substitute in every game and was either turned or replaced. Due to his good performances, he also brought, among other things in youth, Mats Rits has been courted over the years by various international associations. The Belgian giants RSC Anderlecht, which failed at the scarcest of the entire Umwerber with a transfer, and the team PSV Eindhoven and FC Utrecht were only a few clubs that wanted to secure the young Belgian talent. The Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam it was, finally, who took the young Belgians end of June 2011 under contract and he submitted a contract until the summer of 2013. At the Amsterdam club, he will be indeed represented in the professional squad and me exercising with the pros, in the early days but still in the reserve team ( Jong Ajax) are used. There he is to be established for later use in the Eredivisie and play matches until then.

Internationally

Rits made ​​, among others, already acquainted with a junior national team of his native country. For the Belgian U- 17 team, he was so far ( as at 4 February 2010) in five countries playing in use, scoring one goal. Currently ( early February 2010) he stands for a match against the U -17 from Georgia not in Squad and is usually called only available in the national team.

Currently, Rits is with the U-17 National Team in the Elite Round of qualifying for the U-17 European Championship 2010 in Liechtenstein.