Filip Daems

Filip Daems (2008)

Filip Daems ( born October 31, 1978 in Turnhout ) is a Belgian footballer.

Career

Association

Until January 2005

The defensive specialist began his career at amateur club Alberta Geel. His first professional contract he signed with KFC Verbroedering Geel. Later he played for Lierse SK and was there in 1999 Belgian Cup winners. His subsequent involvement with the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği Ankara was Daems first career station abroad.

Daems at Borussia Mönchengladbach

In January 2005, Daems changed after three and a half years in Turkey to Borussia Mönchengladbach. On 29 January 2005 he made ​​his debut for the club from the Lower Rhine, after he was in season 2004/ 05 on 19 game against Borussia Dortmund in the starting line-up to be substituted after 53 minutes. A serious heel injury denied Daems in the season 2006/ 07 not a single game for Borussia. On September 7, 2007, he gave a year's break at a friendly match his comeback. Since then, the Belgians was a regular player. He plays mainly on the position of the left full-back, sometimes in the center of defense. With Mönchengladbach he succeeded after the temporary descent of the immediate promotion back to the 1st league. Since January 2009, Daems is captain of his team. His contract runs until 30 June 2015. Until the 2010/11 season Daems played with Gladbach either against relegation or in the lower third. 2011/12 played the Flame with trained by Lucien Favre " foal " to participate in the Champions League or the Europa League qualifiers. The season was finished in fourth place in the table, which was tantamount to participation in the Champions League qualification. Daems came here 31 times to insert and scored three goals.

National

Daems played from 1999 to 2009 for the Belgian national football team.