Cyriel Dessers

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Cyriel Dessers
Cyriel Dessers 2017.jpg
Cyriel Dessers (2017)
Personnel
birthday December 8, 1994
place of birth Tongeren ,  Belgium
size 185 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2001-2005 FC De Zwaluw Vechmaal
2005-2006 Union FC Rutten
2006-2007 SK Tongeren
2007-2009 VV St. Truiden
2009-2011 SK Tongeren
2011-2013 Oud-Heverlee lions
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2014 Oud-Heverlee lions 2 0(0)
2014-2016 Sporting Lokeren 34 0(4)
2016-2017 NAC Breda 40 (29)
2017-2019 FC Utrecht 47 (14)
2019-2020 Heracles Almelo 26 (15)
2020– KRC Genk 2 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 15, 2020

Cyriel Dessers (born December 8, 1994 in Tongern ) is a Nigerian - Belgian football player . The striker is under contract with Heracles Almelo in the Netherlands .

Career

society

Dessers grew up in Vechmaal near Heers in the province of Limburg and was trained at SK Tongeren, VV St. Truiden and Oud-Heverlee Löwen ; as a seven-year-old he had previously failed in a trial training session at his favorite club, KRC Genk . During the winter break of the 2013/14 season, the 19-year-old moved up to the professional squad Leuvens and prevailed with the club in the relegation relegation against the RAEC Mons .

He was then sold to league competitor Sporting Lokeren for the 2014/15 season . With Sporting Dessers reached the group stage of the Europa League , where they were eliminated in third place. He played 40 competitive games in two years, but only scored seven times and prepared two more goals.

In the second Dutch league , the Belgian was able to assert himself right away at NAC Breda after his move in summer 2016 . As a regular player, the attacker scored 29 goals and thirteen assists in 40 competitive games for the club and thus played a significant role in the promotion to the Eredivisie .

The future first division opponent FC Utrecht signed the striker before the start of the season and provided him with a working paper valid until June 2020. With Utrecht Dessers failed in the Europa League qualification at Zenit St. Petersburg . At the end of the season he was fifth with the team and scored nine goals in 32 league games. At the beginning of the second half of the 2018/19 season, the attacker tore his knee ligament and was only able to return to the team shortly before the end of the season.

In the summer of 2019 there was another change within the Eredivisie, this time to Heracles Almelo , who was seventh from the previous year , with whom Dessers received a three-year contract. The season, which ended prematurely after the 26th matchday due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Heracles finished in eighth place. Dessers scored 15 goals each season with Steven Berghuis , but the league association did not choose a top scorer. The striker then returned to the Belgian premier league and signed a four-year contract with his "heart club" KRC Genk.

National team

National coach Gernot Rohr nominated the attacker in early March 2020 qualifying game of Nigeria's A-selection for the Africa Cup 2021 against Sierra Leone . The game should originally have taken place at the end of the month, but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

successes

NAC Breda

Personal

Dessers' father is Belgian, his mother Nigerian.

Dessers ended a two-year law degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven prematurely at the age of 20 in favor of his professional career.

Web links

Commons : Cyriel Dessers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cyriel Dessers: "Nu ben ik waar ik wil zijn." , krcgenk.be, accessed August 16, 2020 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ a b c Aanvaller Cyriel Dessers Verkocht aan Heracles Almelo , fcutrecht.nl, accessed on January 23, 2020 (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Lokeren kaapt aanvaller Dessers weg bij OHL , hln.be, accessed on January 23, 2020 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Sporting Lokeren spits Cyriel Dessers 21 tekent voor 3 jaar bij NAC , omroepbrabant.nl, accessed on January 23, 2020 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Dessers & Ehizibue earn Nigeria call-ups as Leicester City's Iheanacho returns , goal.com, accessed on March 9, 2020 (English)
  6. ↑ Cyriel Dessers: Dutch league's leading scorer opts for Nigeria , bbc.com, accessed on March 9, 2020 (English)
  7. ↑ Dessers ziet zichzelf over tien jaar in VS spelen , ad.nl, accessed on August 16, 2020 (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Dessers, Cyriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian-Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Tongeren , Belgium