Baptiste Guillaume

Baptiste Guillaume
Baptiste Guillaume 2015 in Lens
Personnel
birthday	June 16, 1995
place of birth	Brussels ,  Belgium
size	189 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
2009-2013	RC Lens
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2014	RC Lens B	21 0(3)
2013-2015	RC Lens	33 0(3)
2015-2017	OSC Lille B	16 (12)
2015-2017	Lille OSC	10 0(0)
2016-2017	→  Racing Strasbourg  (loan)	31 0(9)
2017–	SCO Angers	16 0(1)
2018–	→  Olympique Nîmes  (loan)	17 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014	Belgium U-19	5 0(1)
2015-2016	Belgium U-21	4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 28, 2019 2 As of March 28, 2019

Baptiste Guillaume (born June 16, 1995 in Brussels ) is a Belgian football player on the position of a striker . The multiple Belgian young international player has been under contract with the French first division club SCO Angers since 2017 .

Club career

Guillaume was four years old when he joined a football club in Mons in southern Belgium in 1999 . He remained loyal to this for many years and went through various junior teams until he was accepted into the youth department of the French professional club RC Lens in 2009 ; this meant moving abroad, although Lens is close to the border to his home country and Guillaume grew up in the French-speaking part of Belgium anyway. He went through the various ages at the Racing Club and was part of the B-youth coached by Éric Sikora during the 2011/12 season . He had a strong year that ended in first place in the league. The subsequent participation in the finals for the national championship was also successful and shortly afterwards Guillaume was able to hold the trophy of the French U-17 champions in his hands.

In the summer of 2012 he moved up to the A-Junior team and experienced his last phase in the youth field until he was invited to the second division eleven in March 2013, which was meanwhile trained by his former youth coach Sikora. The only 17-year-old came on in a 0-1 away defeat by Clermont Foot on March 29th in the 81st minute, making his professional debut. In the following time he was given more time a few times, where he entered the field as a joker shortly before the end of the game. This changed at the beginning of the 2013/14 season when a new coach came in Antoine Kombouaré who no longer relied on him. So he had to be content with a membership in the second team and had no direct part in the fact that Lens was promoted to the top French league in 2014. With the jump to the first division, he played a role again and came on as a substitute in the first round on August 9, 2014 in a 0-1 defeat against FC Nantes . In October of the same year he made his starting line-up debut against Toulouse FC and just a week later he scored his first first division goal against the then leaders Olympique Marseille . In the following period he was regularly called up, where he was often substituted, but did not get more than two hits during the season and also had to accept relegation to the second division in 2015.

Despite relegation, he managed to stay in the top division of France at the beginning of the 2015/16 season by joining regional rivals OSC Lille . The transfer fee due was estimated at four million euros. At Lille he did not get beyond the role of a supplementary player in his first season.

National team

On April 16, 2014, Guillaume played for the Belgian U-19 team for the first time in a 5-2 defeat by Germany and scored a goal in the course of the encounter. He was then called up in two qualifying matches for the U-19 European Championship in 2014 , but his country ultimately missed the ticket for the finals. From October 2015 he was also used for Belgium's U-21 team.

Web links

• Baptiste Guillaume in the database of the Belgian Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Qui est Baptiste Guillaume? ( Memento of December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), lensois.com
2. ↑ Baptiste Guillaume , transfermarkt.de
3. ^ Baptiste Guillaume »Internationals , weltfussball.de