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Lorenzo Staelens
Personal information
Full name Lorenzo Jules Staelens
Date of birth (1964-04-30) 30 April 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth Lauwe, Belgium
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Sweeper, midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1987 KWSC Lauwe
1987–1989 Kortrijk 64 (11)
1989–1998 Club Brugge 286 (75)
1998–2000 Anderlecht 67 (10)
2001 Oita Trinita 26 (2)
International career
1990–2000 Belgium 70 (8)
Managerial career
2002–2003 Mouscron
2004 Eendracht Aalst
2007–2008 Roeselare (assistant)
2008–2013 Cercle Brugge (assistant)
2013–2014 Cercle Brugge
2015 OMS Ingelmunster[1]
2016–2017 Royal Mouscron (assistant)
2017–2018 KV Kortrijk (assistant)
2018–2019 Knokke
2019 Lokeren (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lorenzo Jules Staelens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːrɛnzoː ˈstaːləns]; born 30 April 1964) is a retired Belgian footballer and currently unemployed manager after being released in March 2019 by Knokke.

Having started his career as a defensive midfielder, he finished it as sweeper at nearly 40, and scored more than 100 goals overall.

Staelens appeared for the Belgian national team in three World Cups, adding the Euro 2000 tournament played on home soil.

Club career

Born in Lauwe, Staelens started his professional career with K.V. Kortrijk at already 23, and his two solid seasons there attracted the attention of top division giants Club Brugge KV.

There, he proceeded to form a legendary midfield partnership with Franky Van der Elst, that would last nearly a decade. Staelens played 369 games in all competitions for the club, scoring 105 goals.

At already 34, and more often than not playing in the backline, he moved to R.S.C. Anderlecht, still being instrumental in the club's back-to-back championships (2000 and 2001), and winning the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1999; however, he did not finish his last year, moving to Japan's Oita Trinita in early 2001 and retiring shortly after.

Staelens took up coaching subsequently, first with R.E. Mouscron. After only two months at V.C. Eendracht Aalst, he returned to first club Kortrijk as its general manager, only returning to the benches in 2007, as assistant coach at K.S.V. Roeselare. Staelens kept that role in the subsequent years, with the other team from Bruges, Cercle KSV.

International career

As an inexperienced international player, Staelens was selected to Belgium's squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup; there, he appeared in the 1–2 group stage match against Spain.

From then on, Staelens became an essential national team member, representing it also at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and in UEFA Euro 2000, totalling a further 10 complete matches.[2]

Statistics

Club

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Belgium League
1987–88 Kortrijk Belgian Pro League 32 4
1988–89 32 7
1989–90 Brugge Belgian Pro League 34 4
1990–91 33 4
1991–92 31 5
1992–93 34 7
1993–94 33 12
1994–95 34 16
1995–96 30 12
1996–97 31 8
1997–98 26 6
1998–99 Anderlecht Belgian Pro League 24 6
1999–2000 29 1
2000–01 14 3
Japan League
2001 Oita Trinita J2 League 26 2
Country Belgium 417 95
Japan 26 2
Total 443 97

National team

Belgium national team
Year Apps Goals
1990 3 0
1991 3 0
1992 4 1
1993 6 0
1994 11 0
1995 8 0
1996 3 0
1997 6 5
1998 8 0
1999 11 1
2000 7 1
Total 70 8

Honours

References

  1. ^ Lorenzo Staelens stapt op bij Ingelmunster na twee wedstrijden, nieuwsblad.be, 26 October 2015
  2. ^ Lorenzo StaelensFIFA competition record (archived)