Steven Defour

Steven Defour

Personal information
Full name	Steven Arnold Defour
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s)	Centre midfielder
Team information
Current team	Standard Liege
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2006	RC Genk	30	(1)
2006–2010	Standard Liege	95	(10)
International career‡
2006–	Belgium	24	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:51, 6 July 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:51, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Steven Defour (born 15 April 1988 in Mechelen) is a Belgian footballer who plays for Manchester United in England. He is capable of playing as an attacking midfielder, centre midfielder and winger.

Career

Standard Liege

After playing youth football at Hombeek and KV Mechelen, Defour had been with KV Mechelen since 2002. His first-team debut was as a substitute in the 2004–05 season but his big breakthrough came the next season, when the 17 year old showed himself a player able to deploy his skills in the interest of the whole team, creating opening with his astute passing. Now Defour is on a five-year contract at Standard, learning from Portuguese star Sérgio Conceição and Milan Rapaić in the 2006–07 season. For the 2007–08 season, despite being only 19 years old, the right-sided Belgian international was appointed as Standard's captain.

During the 2007–08 season Defour received the Golden Shoe, the official award for most valuable player in the Belgian League, of the year 2007. The form that won him this award would continue as Defour led Standard to the Jupiler League title, for the first time in 25 years. He repeated this by winning the second Belgian title in a row after two play-off matches against Anderlecht.

Awards and honours

Club

• Jupiler League:
  • Winner (2): 2007–08, 2008–09

Individual

• Man of the Season - Most regular Standardman of the season (votes after every match on the official website)
  • Winner : 2006–07
  • Third : 2008–09
• Trophy Scharlaken UGH - Standardman of the season presented by fan club Les Rouches des Flandres in cooperation with the official website
  • Winner : 2006–07, 2007–08

Steven Defour: International Goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	6 September 2008	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège	Estonia	3 – 2	Won	[[2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|2010 World Cup Qualific External links Player Profile @ Sport National Football Teams References