Brandon Mechele

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Brandon Mechele
Brandon Mechele Club Brugge.jpg
Personnel
birthday January 28, 1993
place of birth Bredene ,  Belgium
size 188 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1999 KSV Bredene
1999-2013 Club Bruges
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013– Club Bruges 172 (5)
2017 →  VV St. Truiden  (loan) 18 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013-2014 Belgium U-21 8 (0)
2019– Belgium 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of February 9, 2020

Brandon Mechele (born January 28, 1993 in Bredene , Flanders ) is a Belgian football player . He is mostly used in the defense chain and has been under contract with the Belgian first division club FC Brugge since 2013 .

Club career

In 1999, Brandon Mechele moved from KSV Bredene to the Belgian record cup winner FC Brugge in the youth and went through all the youth departments there until 2013. For the 2013/14 season rose to the first team from Bruges. Even before his official promotion to the first team, he gave in the team round of the Jupiler Pro League 2012/13 under coach Juan Carlos Garrido on May 5, 2013 with a 2-1 victory against Sporting Lokeren made his debut for the first team. In the championship round they reached 3rd place, which qualified them for the UEFA Europa League .

He made his real debut in the league on July 26, 2013 in a 2-0 win against Sporting Charleroi and his international debut was on August 1, 2013 in the 1-0 defeat against Śląsk Wrocław from Poland in the Europe League qualification. More than a year later on December 7, 2014, he scored the interim 1-0 in the 16 th minute in a 2-1 win against SV Zulte Waregem and was thus able to celebrate his first goal for Club Brugge KV. With this goal, he contributes to the fact that Club Bruges reached 1st place in the regular season of the Pro League 2014/15 . In the championship round you had to be content with the runner-up behind the KAA Gent , which qualified you for the UEFA Champions League . He made his Champions League debut under coach Michel Preud'homme on July 28, 2015 when he lost 2-1 to Panathinaikos Athens in the Champions League qualification. He spent the second half of the 2016/17 season on loan from VV St. Truiden .

His current contract with Club Bruges was extended in mid-April 2020 until the end of the 2022/23 season.

National team career

He was appointed to the Belgian U-21 national team for the first time in 2013 and played a total of eight times for the U-21s of the Netherlands until 2014. He played his last game in a 6-0 win against Zypen under coach Johan Walem .

On October 13, 2019, he made his first appearance in the senior national team . Mechele came on for Thomas Vermaelen in the 89th minute in the 2-0 away win in the European Championship qualification against Kazakhstan .

titles and achievements

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Appearances for Club Bruges on transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Match report Club Brugge vs. SV Zulte Waregem on transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 23, 2016
  3. ↑ Brandon Mechele dead in 2023 at the club. Club Bruges, April 20, 2020, accessed April 20, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Operations for Belgium U-21 on transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 23, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Mechele, Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Bredene , Belgium