Dion Cools

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Dion Cools
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Dion Cools as Belgian
U-19 international (2015)
Personnel
Surname Dion-Johan Cools
birthday June 4th 1996
place of birth Kuching ,  Malaysia
size 184 cm
position right defender
Juniors
Years station
2002-2005 Tempo Overijse
2005-2009 Oud-Heverlee lions
2009-2011 RSC Anderlecht
2011-2014 Oud-Heverlee lions
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2015 Oud-Heverlee lions 32 (0)
2015-2020 Club Bruges 81 (7)
2020– FC Midtjylland 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 Belgium U18 2 (0)
2014-2015 Belgium U-19 8 (2)
2016-2018 Belgium U-21 14 (3)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 2, 2020

2 As of February 2, 200

Dion-Johan Cools (born June 4, 1996 in Kuching , Malaysia ) is a Malaysian- Belgian football player on the position of a defender . He has been under contract with the Danish first division club FC Midtjylland since January 31, 2020 .

Club career

Career start and time in second class

Dion Cools was born in 1996 to a Belgian father and a Malaysian mother in Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak , in northwest Borneo . His father gave him the middle name based on the Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff , whose father was his father. Even before he was born, his parents moved to Belgium, where they married, but continued to commute regularly between their two countries of birth. So it came about that Dion Cools was born while the mother was at home in her native country. After his grandfather and father were already active as football players, Dion Cools began his career as a football player in 2002 as a five-year-old in the offspring of Tempo Overijse from the Belgian city of Overijse . At the age of six, scouts became aware of the young talent, who would stay at Tempo Overijse until 2005.

In 2005, he was transferred to the Oud-Heverlee Löwen club, which had just been promoted to the Belgian second division , in whose youth teams he was used from then on. After going through a few youth league classes, he was briefly involved in the offspring of the Belgian top club and record champions RSC Anderlecht in 2009 . He won the Belgian youth championship in 2011 with RSC players like Andy Kawaya and Charly Musonda junior , the son of the former Zambian professional of the same name . In the same year he moved back to his regular club from Heverlee near Löwen .

He spent his time at Löwen in the offspring until 2014, before he sat on the bench of the professional team for the first time in the relegation of the 2013/14 season , but did not make a competitive appearance. Cools, who signed his first professional contract immediately after graduating from school, made his first appearances in the club's professional team from the second division season 2014/15 , making his league debut on August 3, 2014 in a 1-0 away win over KRC Mechelen , when he was on the pitch for the full game and was cautioned with a yellow card by referee Denis Vanbecelaere in the same game .

Still under coach Ivan Leko , Cools should establish himself as a regular, especially in the right defensive row, and scored in the Belgian soccer cup of the 2014/15 season on August 24, 2014 in a 4-1 victory over third division club KSV Bornem in the fifth round of Preliminary round his first competitive game goal for the professionals. After that, the defensively as well as offensively strong, as well as technically savvy player came to regular second division appearances, whereby the young talent, especially in duels, was noticeable partly because of his robustness. By the end of the season, the dual national made 26 appearances in the second division, in which he himself remained goalless and with the team placed fifth in the final standings with 61 points.

He also acted under Jacky Mathijssen , who replaced Ivan Leko in December 2014, as a regular and had eight yellow and one red cards in his statistics at the end of the season. Since the team finished the first tranche in the first place in the table in the season, which was played in three tranches , the team was qualified for the final relegation at the end of the season. There Cools was used in all six games of his team and rose with the team after four wins and two draws in the Pro League .

First appearances in the highest Belgian football league

However , Dion Cools did not start the 2015/16 season for his club from Leuven, but was transferred to league rivals Club Bruges on June 23, 2015 , with whom the young player had signed a four-year contract until summer 2019. After showing positive performances in preparation, Cools sat on the bench for the first time in a competitive match of the football club from Bruges on July 16, 2015 in the Supercup match of his club against KAA Gent . The team lost the game after a late goal from Laurent Depoitre just 1-0 and Cools was used just a little over a week later in the first round match of the new season against VV St. Truiden . Michel Preud'homme let him come in from the start, with the 19-year-old holding out the full game as a right-back and even contributing the assist to the only goal by Tom De Sutter in the 2-1 defeat of his team.

Just four days after his first division debut, the Malaysian-Belgian football player was used in the 1: 2 defeat of his team against Panathinaikos Athens in the third qualifying round for the 2015/16 Champions League , when he hit the pitch for veteran Davy De Fauw in minute 80 came. Then he was used for the reigning Belgian runner-up in the second round of the current season for the full duration of the match, where he again managed an assist; this time for Tuur Dierckx in the final goal for a 3-0 win over KV Mechelen .

Regular players and champions

With Club Bruges , he won the national championship title in 2016 and 2018. If he was a substitute player for the first title (5 appearances / 0 goals), he was part of the regular staff the second time and came to 35 season games in which he was able to score three goals.

Change to Denmark

On January 31, 2020, the Danish first division and league leaders FC Midtjylland announced the player's commitment.

National team career

As early as 2010 and 2011, Dion Cools, who would also be eligible to play for the Malaysian national soccer team due to his origins , had first contact with the youth national teams of the Belgian soccer association . As a youth player at RSC Anderlecht, he played in unofficial games in Belgium's U-15 team. A few years later, official international appearances for his father's home country followed, where he was used for the full game on April 28, 2014 in a 2-0 defeat of the Belgian U-18 youth team against Norway by Gert Verheyen . After another 90-minute mission in a 1-0 win over Japan , he was also in a third international match for his team at this international tournament in Slovakia , but was not used.

Also under the Bruges-record player Gert Verheyen gave Dion Cools on 10 October 2014 at the age of 18 years, four months and six days his debut for the U-19 national team of Belgium , the first when he qualifier for the U-19 European Championship against the neighboring Luxembourg was used for the full duration of the game. In the following two group games against Belarus and England he scored one goal each, which made him a big part of his nation's progress in qualifying. In the subsequent elite round, in which he was also used as a regular in the right-wing defense, the team could not prevail in its group at the end of March 2015 against the eventual European runner-up, Russia , and so was eliminated in the qualification. To date (as of August 5, 2015) Cools has made eight U-19 international appearances, including six European Championship qualifiers and two friendlies, and two goals.

Cools himself emphasized several times that he wanted to play for his mother's home country if he was given the opportunity. FourFourTwo named him in June 2015 as currently the most outstanding Malaysian player outside of Malaysia.

successes

With the Oud-Heverlee lions

With Club Bruges

Web links

Commons : Dion Cools  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dion Cools: It would be an honor for me to represent Malaysia ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) www.fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved August 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fourfourtwo.com
  2. ↑ U15 Anderlecht keep land title (Dutch), accessed on August 24, 2015
  3. ↑ RACING MECHELEN - OH LEUVEN (0: 1) (English), accessed on August 5, 2015
  4. ↑ BORNEM - OH LEUVEN (1: 4) (English), accessed on August 5, 2015
  5. ↑ Jacky Mathijssen volgt Ivan Leko op bij OHL (Dutch), accessed on August 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Cools: “Een eer dit truitje te mogen aantrekken” - Dion Cools slaagt in zijn test en ondertekent four year contract (Dutch), accessed on August 5, 2015
  7. ↑ SINT-TRUIDEN - CLUB BRUGGE (2: 1) (English), accessed on August 5, 2015
  8. ↑ PANATHINAIKOS - CLUB BRUGGE (2: 1) (English), accessed on August 5, 2015
  9. ↑ CLUB BRUGGE - MECHELEN (3: 0) (English), accessed on August 5, 2015
  10. ↑ FC Midtjylland henter Dion Cools i Club Bruges (Danish), accessed on January 31, 2020
  11. ↑ SELECTION BELGIEUM UNDER 19 ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 24, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belgianfootball.be
  12. ↑ A starting XI of Malaysians with foreign heritage ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fourfourtwo.com
personal data
SURNAME Cools, Dion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cools, Dion-Johan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian-Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuching , Malaysia