Ken Leemans

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Ken Leemans
Ken Leemans.jpg
Ken Leemans in the VVV-Venlo jersey,
August 28, 2007
Personnel
birthday 5th January 1983
place of birth Vilvoorde ,  Belgium
size 186 cm
position Midfielder , defender
Juniors
Years station
Koninklijke Sporting Tange
KFC Strombeek
RWD Molenbeek
KFC Strombeek
0000-2002 KV Mechelen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002 KV Mechelen 9 0(0)
2003 Roda JC Kerkrade 0 0(0)
2003-2005 →  VVV-Venlo  (loan) 54 0(5)
2005-2007 Roda JC Kerkrade 25 0(0)
2007–2012 VVV-Venlo 112 (11)
2012– FC Hansa Rostock 34 0(3)
2014 FC Hansa Rostock II 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Belgium U-20
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 1, 2014

Ken Leemans (born January 5, 1983 in Vilvoorde ) is a Belgian football player who is used as a right-footed defensive player both as a sixth as well as a central defender . The Flame had during his youth solely in different clubs in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region played before he in 2003 as a 20-year-old in the Netherlands in 2012, finally and after Germany changed.

Career

Youth in Flanders and Brussels

Leemans was born in 1983 in Vilvoorde, just outside Brussels , and grew up speaking Dutch , but also learned French at school . He started playing football from the age of five at Vilvoorder “VZW Koninklijke Sporting Tange”. He soon moved to Brussels, where he initially belonged to the KFC Strombeek . As a twelve-year-old he then played for RWD Molenbeek in Brussels . There, however, they refused to communicate with him in Dutch, which ultimately led to his first return to Strombeek and then to the youth teams of KV Mechelen a year later .

Beginning in Mechelen and Venlo

As a 19-year-old Leemans was taken over in early 2002 in the professional team Mechelens, which participated in the 2001/02 season as a relegated from the Eerste class in the Tweede class . Under coach Wilfried Van Hoof , the team rose again directly, but Leemans had also played for the club's reserve team.

In 2002/03 he played under coach Stéphane Demol with Mechelen in the first class, although he was only part of the regular formation in the first games of the season. In total, he came to nine missions during the first half of the season, in which the club, which was playing against relegation, got into financial difficulties, was temporarily unable to pay the players' salaries and was ultimately relegated to the Derde class . Due to this situation, Leemans had already been allowed to leave the club free of charge at the turn of the year 2002/03, whereupon his Mecheln teammate Kevin Begois had made contact with the Dutch first division club Roda JC Kerkrade and finally moved to this together with him. Just like Begois, Leemans was immediately awarded by Kerkrade to the second division club VVV-Venlo .

In Venlo Leemans came during the second half of the 2002/03 season under coach Wim Dusseldorp to ten missions, in which he scored his first goal in the men's area, but finished with the team only 13th place in the final table. However, the following season 2003/04 should be more successful, in which Leemans contributed to the seventh place with four goals in 30 missions. This entitled to participation in the promotion games to the Eredivisie 2004 , in which Leemans again scored two goals in five missions. Venlo was only second behind Vitesse Arnhem and missed the promotion.

By signing Frank van Kouwen for the 2004/05 season, Leemans lost his regular place in the Venlo team now coached by Adrie Koster , so that he only made 14 substitutions during the first half of the season. During the winter break he therefore returned to Kerkrade, where he was used in the reserve team.

Via Kerkrade back to Venlo

At the beginning of the first division season 2005/06 Leemans initially failed to recommend himself for missions in the Kerkrader team trained by Huub Stevens . It was only when his teammate Pa Modou Kah was suspended due to a red card that Leemans made his first division debut at the end of November 2005 and was on the starting line-up in five other games until the winter break. During the second half of the season he was increasingly used as a substitute, so that he completed 20 season games. In the play-offs for the UEFA Cup qualification, which Kerkrade had reached eighth in the table, Leemans played twice on the starting line-up; However, Kerkrade was defeated by SC Heerenveen on both legs.

Another by the obligation competition in Leemans' positions, including Marcel Meeuwis and Marcel de Jong , he came in season 2006/07 first under Huub Stevens only four times and under employed as coach in February 2007. Ray Atteveld only once for use . In the play-offs achieved with sixth place, Kerkrade was subsequently eliminated from FC Utrecht without Leemans' involvement . Although his contract in Kerkrade had been extended by one year to 2008 in February 2007, he then changed clubs and returned to VVV-Venlo, which had now been promoted to the Eredivisie and signed a two-year contract with Leemans. At the same time, Frank van Kouwen moved from Venlo to Kerkrade.

In the first ten games of the 2007/08 season Leemans was part of the regular formation of the team coached by André Wetzel , but lost this regular place again and was often used as a substitute. During the winter break he was advised to change clubs as the relegation-threatened club wanted to sign new players to Leemans' positions. Nevertheless, Leemans stayed in Venlo, so that at the end of the season he had made 19 missions and scored three goals. The team occupied the penultimate place in the table and rose again in the subsequent relegation games against ADO Den Haag , in which Leemans participated three times, back to the Eerste Division. For Leemans, however, the relegation as well as the change of the coach to Jan van Dijk proved to be advantageous, as he was again a regular player in the subsequent second division season 2008/09 with five goals in 32 appearances and involved in the direct resurgence of Venlos as a table first was. Meanwhile, Leemans had extended his contract, which expired at the end of the season, by three years to 2012 in January 2009; the contract also contained an option for two more years.

In the first division seasons 2009/10 and 2010/11 Leemans was then one of the top performers in the Venlo team with 31 and 28 appearances, which achieved relegation in the Eredivisie in both seasons. While this was still directly achieved in 2009/10 as twelfth in the table, Venlo had replaced coach van Dijk in 2010/11 due to acute risk of relegation by Wil Boessen , under whom the club finally positioned itself as 17th in the final table and only in the following relegation games against FC Volendam and the FC Zwolle ensured relegation.

Subsequently, Leemans was courted by the Belgian Lierse SK , whereupon he received the promise of a change from VVV-Venlo despite the one-year remaining term of his contract. In the subsequent medical examination, however, the Belgian failed, which is why the change ultimately did not materialize. During the 2011/12 season , Leemans was initially no longer used for Venlo, so that some media suspected a hernia , which Leemans denied and instead referred to an injury to the buttocks . In October 2011, he finally underwent an operation in which his symptoms were to be corrected by widening a narrowed nerve canal. As a result, Venlo let the option to extend Leemans' contract expire. With a substitution in the final minutes of the last game day, Leemans then completed his first appearance of this season, which was also his last league game for VVV. Under coach Ton Lokhoff , Venlo had placed tenth in the table, which meant that the club had to play relegation games again, in which Leemans was substituted on twice and contributed to relegation before he finally left the club.

Move to Germany

Leemans had already rejected an offer from the Dutch second division club MVV Maastricht at the beginning of May 2012. Instead, he decided at the end of May to move to Germany, where he worked for the third division team F.C., who had recently been relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga. Hansa Rostock received a two-year contract. In the 2012/13 season of the 3rd division , Leemans established himself as a top performer under coach Wolfgang Wolf and his successor Marc Fascher , but the team was in acute danger of relegation. On the third from last game day Leemans suffered a fracture of the right tibia and fibula in the game against Kickers Offenbach , which meant that the season ended prematurely for him after 30 games. The team managed to stay in the league on the following day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KenLeemans.com: Vraag het Ken ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2009 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. (Dutch), accessed June 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kenleemans.com
  2. ↑ a b KenLeemans.com: Paspoort ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch), accessed June 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kenleemans.com
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Voetbalzone.nl, March 23, 2009: Ken Leemans: onbreekbare Belg, uitgerust met leeuwenhart (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  4. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, February 23, 2007: Roda verlengt met Bodor en Leemans  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch), accessed June 2, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.voetbalprimeur.nl  
  5. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, October 29, 2008: Leemans kan in Venlo tot 2012 bijtekenen (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  6. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, January 15, 2009: Leemans: Nog zeker drie jaar VVV-Venlo (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  7. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, June 20, 2011: Leemans: "Heel mooi dat VVV mij dit gunt" (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, June 21, 2011: Leemans komt niet door medische keuring (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, September 18, 2011: Leemans ontkent Vermeende hernia (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  10. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, October 27, 2011: Operatie moet Leemans van blessure afhelpen (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  11. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, March 5, 2012: Leemans vertrekt na seizoen bij VVV (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  12. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, May 1, 2012: Leemans schrikt en refuses aanbieding MVV (Dutch), accessed on June 2, 2012
  13. ↑ FC-Hansa.de, May 30, 2012: First Belgian in the Hansa jersey: Ken Leemans is coming , accessed on June 2, 2012
  14. ↑ Kicker.de : May 6, 2013: Leemans breaks shin and fibula , accessed on June 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Leemans, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilvoorde , Belgium