Gert Verheyen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1970-09-20) 20 September 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Hoogstraten, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1978–1986 | Hoogstraten VV | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1986–1988 | Lierse | 39 | (10) |
| 1988–1992 | Anderlecht | 64 | (3) |
| 1992–2006 | Club Brugge | 415 | (155) |
| National team | |||
| 1994–2002 | Belgium | 50 | (10) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2013– | Belgium U-19 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Gert Verheyen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʝɛrt fər.ˈhɛ.jə(n)]; born 20 September 1970) is a Belgian retired footballer who played as a forward and winger. Verheyen is currently managing the Belgium national under-19 football team.
In a 20-year professional career, he was mainly associated with Anderlecht and Club Brugge (especially the latter), scoring over 200 official goals for both clubs combined; he was known to have rather few technical skills, relying on a hard-working approach.[1]
Verheyen represented Belgium in two World Cups and one European Championship.
Club career
Born in Hoogstraten, Antwerp, Verheyen started playing professionally with Lierse SK, scoring 10 Belgian Second Division goals in his two season-spell, as he was not yet aged 18. In the 1988 summer he moved to R.S.C. Anderlecht, where he did not have a good scoring record, also appearing rarely in his first two years.[2]
In 1992 Verheyen signed with Club Brugge KV, where he would remain for the next 14 years, rarely missing a game and netting in double digits in ten of those campaigns, with the side collecting four leagues and two cups. In October 2000 he was expected to move to England with Ipswich Town,[3] but the deal eventually fell through.[4]
After more than 500 overall appearances for Brugge (with 195 goals), Verheyen retired on 5 May 2006,[5] becoming a reserve team trainer at the club in 2006–07 and quitting football subsequently at the season's end.
International career
Verheyen gained exactly 50 caps for the Belgium national team during eight years, scoring 10 times. He was selected for the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, as well as UEFA Euro 2000, the latter played on home soil.
Verheyen's was controversially sent off at the 1998 World Cup in France as the nation led 2–0 against Mexico. The foul resulted in a penalty and the match ended a 2–2 draw;[6][7] despite the incident, he continued to be a regular in the next few years. Since 1998 he became one of the main players (and the vice-captain) of the Belgian team alongside the captain Marc Wilmots, Johan Walem, Geert De Vlieger and Nico Van Kerckhoven until the end of the World Cup of 2002.
Honours
- Belgian League: 1990–91, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2004–05
- Belgian Cup: 1988–89, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2003–04; Runner-up 1997–98, 2004–05
- Belgian Supercup: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005; Runner-up 1988, 1989, 1995
References
- Jump up ^ Euro 2000 profile; BBC Sport
- Jump up ^ 'Big Gert' comes of age; BBC Sport, 3 June 2002
- Jump up ^ Ipswich set to sign Verheyen; BBC Sport, 3 October 2000
- Jump up ^ Ipswich ditch Verheyen deal; BBC Sport, 5 October 2000
- Jump up ^ Gert Verheyen quitte le Club Brugeois (Verheyen quits Club Brugge); Brugges official website (French)
- Jump up ^ "Whistler Dallas in red card storm". The Free Library. 21 June 1998. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- Jump up ^ Gert Verheyen – FIFA competition record
External links
- Club Brugge archives (Dutch)
- Gert Verheyen at National-Football-Teams.com
- Official fansite (Dutch)
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