Grégory Mertens
| Grégory Mertens | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | February 2, 1991 | |
| place of birth | Brussels , Belgium | |
| date of death | April 30, 2015 | |
| Place of death | Genk , Belgium | |
| size | 190 cm | |
| position | Central defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| –2005 | RSC Anderlecht | |
| 2005-2006 | VC Groot Dilbeek | |
| 2006-2010 | KAA Gent | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2010-2011 | KAA Gent | 0 (0) |
| 2011-2014 | Cercle Bruges | 60 (3) |
| 2014-2015 | KSC Lokeren | 22 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2006 | Belgium U-16 | 1 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | Belgium U-19 | 5 (0) |
| 2011 | Belgium U-21 | 7 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Grégory Mertens (born February 2, 1991 in Brussels , † April 30, 2015 in Genk ) was a Belgian football player .
Career
Mertens started playing football in the youth of RSC Anderlecht . He switched to KAA Gent via VC Groot Dilbeek . In 2010 he rose there from the U-19s to the professional team, which plays in the Jupiler Pro League . However, he was not used. In 2011 he moved to Cercle Bruges , where he played 60 league games by 2014. He got three goals. He was then transferred to KSC Lokeren for a transfer fee of 700,000 euros . There he came to 22 league games.
death
On April 27, 2015 Mertens suffered a heart attack during a game between the U-23s of KSC Lokeren and KRC Genk . He was then treated in a hospital in Genk , but died there on April 30, 2015 at the age of 24.
Web links
- Grégory Mertens in the database of weltfussball.de
- Gregory Mertens in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Grégory Mertens in the database of kicker.de
- Player profile at Sporting.be (Belgian)
- Mission statistics in Belgian selection teams
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grégory Mertens †: Transfer History . Transfermarkt.de, accessed April 30, 2015.
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^ Tim Vlaeminck: Sporting family in rouw . ( Memento of the original from May 2, 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. Sporting Club Lokeren, April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015 (Dutch). Belgian Mertens died . Sport1 .de, April 30, 2015, accessed on April 30, 2015. Heart failure on the pitch: Belgian professional footballer Gregory Mertens dies after three days in a coma . Spiegel Online , April 30, 2015, accessed on April 30, 2015. Belgian professional soccer player Mertens is dead . T-Online.de, April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015. Belgian professional footballer Gregory Mertens (24) has died . Mopo.de , April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015. Gregory Mertens dies three days after collapsing in Sporting Lokeren game . Reuters article on theguardian.com , April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015. Hamish Mackay: Gregory Mertens dead: Tributes to Belgian professional footballer who passed away age 24 after heart attack on pitch . mirror.co.uk , April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015. Report to droefheid wij u het van Gregory Mertens left. Wij wensen de familie en vrienden all sterkte toe . Official announcement from Sporting Lokeren on Twitter , April 30, 2015, accessed April 30, 2015 (Dutch).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mertens, Grégory |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 2015 |
| Place of death | Genk , Belgium |