Maxime Lestienne
Maxime Lestienne ( born June 17, 1992, Mouscron ) is a Belgian football player at the position of midfielder. He currently plays for Club Brugge in the Jupiler Pro League, the top division in Belgian football.
Career
Youth & club career
Max Lestienne, as it is sometimes called, began his active career as a football player is already the age of four, when he was inducted in 1996 in the offspring of his home club Excelsior Mouscron. There he went through to 2009 various youth leagues, and came as a 16- year-old in 2008 to his first missions as a professional football player.
His league and thus professional debut was on December 20, 2008 with a 5-1 home success over his later FC Bruges. In the game, he came on in the 80th minute for the South Africans Asanda Sishuba. When he came to a further short stint January 31, 2009, he was not playing then in the Jupiler Pro League and came mainly in the youth used.
With the beginning of season 2009/10 Lestienne came increasingly to longer league operations. In the first two games a few minutes on the field, he graduated as early as 90 minutes in the third match, before he was replaced. Before that he made in the game template for 1-0 lead; the match ended in a 2-2 draw. By far the best time at Mouscron he had between the seventh and twelfth round of the season, when he was involved in every game at least once with a goal or an assist.
His first professional hit he scoring 19 September 2009 at a 1:3 away defeat against SV Zulte Waregem, when he hit the opponent's goal in the ninth minute game after submission by Jonathan Aspas Juncal. While Lestienne increasingly good performances offered, European top clubs such as Everton, Lille or PSV Eindhoven were aware of the Belgian talent. Also, some Belgian clubs such as RSC Anderlecht, Standard Liège and FC Bruges threw an eye on Lestienne.
After Excelsior Mouscron increasingly found itself in a financial predicament and failed to salary payments over a longer period, strike the entire team squad, so the club could muster no team in three consecutive games. As on 28 December 2009, the Belgian Football Association Royal Belgian Voetbalbond the club took out of the current game mode, all previously played game canceled and depreciated in favor of the respective opponents, game contracts, including Lestiennes, be void and the players were released for transfer.
The coach of Excelsior Mouscron said in November of 2009, that the next two years for Lestienne are crucial and would show whether he was ready for a club abroad. In contrast to Romelu Lukaku, probably the largest Belgian football talent, he saw Lestienne from the level of play as still too young. On January 6, 2010 Lestienne found with FC Bruges a new club; at Bruges, he signed a contract for two and a half years, which will expire in June 2012. To date, the midfielder already came to three league appearances for the Belgian first division. In addition to a total of 20 league games ( 3 goals, 4 assists), he has completed for Excelsior Mouscron, he still came to two inserts in the Belgian Cup 2009/10.
On 18 February 2010 Lestienne ran the first time in the European Cup when he came on ten minutes before the end of the game for Joseph Akpala in sixteenth -final first leg of the UEFA Europa League against FC Valencia; Bruges won the game still 1-0. Nearly two years later, on 16 February 2012, Lestienne made his first goal in European competition when he League sixteenth -final first leg against German Bundesliga side Hannover 96 1-0 marked in Europe; Bruges lost the game still 1-2.
Internationally
First international experience gained Lestienne in the Belgian U-17 national team, for whom he played until 2009. On September 17, 2009, he came to a commitment to the U-18 selection of Belgium by he made his debut in a friendly against Luxembourg and it 's 3-1 success in 43 minutes contributed a hit. Since the end of 2009, the midfielder is in Nationaltkader the Belgian U-19 selection, for which he is currently in qualifying for the U-19 European Championship in use.