Romelu Lukaku

Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku at the 2018 World Cup
Personnel
Surname	Romelu Menama Lukaku Bolingoli
birthday	May 13, 1993
place of birth	Antwerp ,  Belgium
size	190 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1997-1998	Rupel boom
1998-1999	Wintam
1999-2005	Lierse SK
2005-2006	FC Brussels
2006-2009	RSC Anderlecht
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	RSC Anderlecht	55 (29)
2011-2013	Chelsea FC	10 0(0)
2012-2013	→  West Bromwich Albion  (loan)	35 (17)
2013-2017	Everton FC	141 (68)
2017-2019	Manchester United	66 (28)
2019–	Inter Milan	36 (23)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008	Belgium U15	4 0(1)
2011	Belgium U18	1 0(0)
2009	Belgium U21	5 0(1)
2010–	Belgium	84 (52)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 19, 2019

Romelu Menama Lukaku Bolingoli (born May 13, 1993 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian football player . He is under contract with Inter Milan and is the record scorer for the Belgian national team .

Career

In the club

After playing as a youth player at Lierse SK and RSC Anderlecht , he signed a professional contract with RSC Anderlecht at the beginning of the 2009/10 season at the age of 16. There he was quickly part of the regular formation and was successful as a goal scorer (15 league goals in 25 games). In his sixth Europa League appearance, he scored his first two goals at European level in the 3-1 away win of RSC Anderlecht at Ajax Amsterdam , with which he contributed to the group victory of his club. On December 20, 2009 he was voted the greatest Belgian sporting talent of the year. He took first place in front of the racing driver Bertrand Baguette and the athlete Anne Zagré . With 15 goals he was the top scorer in Belgium as a youth B in the 2009/10 season and had a share in winning the Belgian football championship in the same season.

In August 2011 Lukaku moved to Chelsea and signed a five-year contract; he got the shirt number 18. In his first season Lukaku got very little playing time. In order to gain match practice, he was loaned to league rivals West Bromwich Albion for the 2012/13 season. In the Supercup final against FC Bayern Munich on August 30, 2013, he missed the decisive final penalty of the penalty shoot-out.

On September 2, 2013 Lukaku moved on the last day of the transfer window within the league until the end of the 2013/14 season on loan to Everton . In the league, he scored 15 goals in 31 games and was signed for the 2014/15 season . He signed a five-year contract and cost 28 million pounds sterling (around 35.4 million euros) transfer, which made him the most expensive purchase of the club to date. Lukaku also scored regularly in the following seasons: after ten Premier League goals in 36 appearances in the 2014/15 season, 18 goals in 37 games in the 2015/16 season and 25 goals in 37 games in the 2016/17 season , with which he finished second in the scorers list behind Harry Kane (29 goals).

He moved to Manchester United for the 2017/18 season . He received a five-year contract and, with a transfer fee of around 85 million euros, became one of the most expensive players in the world .

For the 2019/20 season he moved to Italy to Inter Milan , where he received a contract that ran until June 2024. There he was repeatedly exposed to racist hostility.

National team

On March 3, 2010 Lukaku played his first international match for the Belgian national team in a friendly against Croatia . He scored his first two goals when beating Russia in a friendly on November 17, 2010 in Voronezh . The game against Luxembourg on May 26, 2014, in which Lukaku scored three goals, was not recognized as an official international match, as Belgium coach Marc Wilmots made seven changes. On July 1, 2014, he scored his first World Cup goal for Belgium in the last 16 duel against the USA in extra time to make it 2-0. The team failed in the quarter-finals to Argentina with 0: 1.

At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was included in the Belgian squad. In all five tournament games he was part of the first team. In the second group game against Ireland he scored two of the goals for the 3-0 win. In the quarterfinals, the team failed as favorites to Wales.

At the 2018 World Cup , he was again part of the Belgian squad . In the first two group matches against Panama (3-0) and Tunisia (5-2) he scored two goals each.

Personal

His parents are from Zaire . His father Roger Lukaku played a. a. temporarily with KV Mechelen and in the national team of Zaire. His younger brother Jordan (* 1994) is also a soccer player. On March 29, 2016, they played against Portugal for the first time together for Belgium, with Romelu scoring the goal to make the final score 1: 2 on presentation of Jordan. His cousin Boli Bolingoli plays for Celtic Glasgow .

successes

• Belgian champion : 2009/10 ( RSC Anderlecht )
• Top scorer in the first division : 2009/10 (RSV Anderlecht)
• UEFA Europa League top scorer: 2015
• Ebbenhouten Schoen : 2011
• Admission to the PFA Team of the Year : 2016/17 (Premier League)

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		League Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
RSC Anderlecht	Pro League	2008/09	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0
		2009/10	33	15th	1	0	-	-	11	4th	-	-	45	19th
		2010/11	37	16	2	0	-	-	11	4th	-	-	50	20th
		2011/12	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2
total			73	33	3	0	-	-	22nd	8th	-	-	98	41
Chelsea FC	Premier League	2011/12	8th	0	1	0	3	0	-	-	-	-	12	0
		2013/14	2	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	3	0
total			10	0	1	0	3	0	-	-	1	0	15th	0
West Bromwich Albion	Premier League	2012/13	35	17th	2	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	38	17th
total			35	17th	2	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	38	17th
Everton FC	Premier League	2013/14	31	15th	1	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	33	16
		2014/15	36	10	2	2	1	0	9	8th	-	-	48	20th
		2015/16	37	18th	3	3	6th	4th	-	-	-	-	46	25th
		2016/17	37	25th	1	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	39	26th
total			141	68	7th	7th	9	4th	9	8th	-	-	166	87
Manchester United	Premier League	2017/18	34	16	6th	5	2	0	8th	5	1	1	51	27
Career total			293	134	19th	12	15th	4th	39	21st	2	1	368	172

• Source: World Football

Web links

Commons : Romelu Lukaku  - collection of images

• Romelu Lukaku in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)
• Romelu Lukaku in the database of weltfussball.de
• Romelu Lukaku in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j95570.html
2. ↑ Belgium - Record goalscorers . ( transfermarkt.com [accessed June 20, 2018]).
3. ↑ Debbie Brouckmans: Most Promising Player of the Year 2009. (No longer available online.) RSC Anderlecht, December 21, 2009, archived from the original on February 26, 2010 ; accessed on February 13, 2019 (English). 
4. ↑ LUKAKU DEAL AGREED ( Memento from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ LUKAKU: THE FIRST INTERVIEW ( Memento from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ LUKAKU WEST BROM LOAN ( Memento from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ LUKAKU LOANED OUT ( Memento from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ VfL trumps: Everton pays record fee for Lukaku
9. ↑ See this tweet from Everton FC on July 30, 2014, accessed on July 11, 2018.
10. ↑ Report on evertonfc.com, accessed on July 10, 2017
11. ↑ UNITED SIGN ROMELU LUKAKU manutd.com, accessed on July 11, 2017
12. ↑ 85 million! ManUnited snatches away Chelsea Lukaku. In: kicker.de. July 6, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017 . 
13. ^ Romelu Lukaku signs for Inter . In: inter.it. August 8, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
14. ↑ "Monkey sounds against Lukaku: 'It's 2019 and we're developing backwards'".
15. ↑ Advocaat: "Lukaku showed good performance" on anderslecht-online.be
16. ↑ Lukaku shoots Belgium to victory
17. ↑ Belgium loses an international match despite winning. In: Berliner Morgenpost . June 5, 2014, accessed July 2, 2014 . 
18. ↑ fifa.com: "Jordan Lukaku: brother and proud of it"