Ritchie De Laet

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Ritchie De Laet
Ritchie De Laet-Carrington, April2010.jpg
De Laet (2010)
Personnel
Surname Richard Ria Alfons De Laet
birthday November 28, 1988
place of birth Antwerp ,  Belgium
size 185 cm
position Right full-
back, center-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2007 Royal Antwerp 9 (0)
2007-2008 Stoke City 0 (0)
2008 →  AFC Wrexham  (loan) 3 (0)
2009–2012 Manchester United 3 (0)
2010 →  Sheffield United  (loan) 6 (0)
2010 →  Preston North End  (loan) 5 (0)
2011 →  Portsmouth FC  (loan) 22 (0)
2011–2012 →  Norwich City  (loan) 6 (1)
2012-2016 Leicester City 115 (4)
2016 →  Middlesbrough FC  (loan) 10 (0)
2016-2019 Aston Villa 8 (0)
2018 →  Royal Antwerp  (loan) 6 (0)
2018-2019 →  Melbourne City FC  (loan) 25 (7)
2019– Royal Antwerp 22 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2009 Belgium 2 (0)
2009 Belgium U-21 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

Richard Ria Alfons De Laet (born November 28, 1988 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian football player who plays mainly in defense .

Career

De Laet started playing football at Royal Antwerp in his hometown. On August 17, 2007, he signed a three-year contract with the then second division side Stoke City. Stoke City is said to have paid £ 100,000 for the then 19-year-old, according to media reports. He played his first game for Stoke City in a 4-1 win against Portsmouth.

In January 2009 De Laet moved to Manchester, where he should first gain experience in the second team. On the last day of the 2008/09 season, De Laet made his league debut in the Premier League , a few days later he was used for the first time in the games against Chile and Japan in the Belgian national team .

From September 2010 De Laet was loaned to Sheffield United (September to October), then to Preston North End (November to December) and finally to Portsmouth FC , where he signed a loan deal until June 2011. For the 2011/12 season, De Laet was awarded to Norwich City . The loan ended early on January 18, 2012. However, de Laet was not in the Manchester squad for the rest of the season.

For the 2012/13 season he moved to Leicester City , who at the time played in the Football League Championship , the second highest English league. During his time at Leicester, the club was promoted to the Premier League.

Since October 2015, however, he has not been on the starting line-up for any game, if he was used at all. In February 2016, a loan to Middlesbrough FC until the end of the season was agreed. Middlesbrough played in the Premier League that year but was relegated at the end of the season.

For the 2016/17 season, de Laet signed a three-year contract with Aston Villa . A transfer fee was agreed. Villa had just been relegated to the Football League Championship .

After a knee injury, he could only play the first three games for Villa in the first season. But even after his recovery, there was not a single game on the pitch for the entire duration. He was therefore loaned to Royal Antwerp in the second half of the 2018/19 season. Antwerp did not exercise the purchase option after this loan, as the transfer fee was too high.

Instead, there was a one-year loan to the Australian club Melbourne City FC . Now that his contract with Villa had expired, nothing stood in the way of a move to Antwerp.

De Laet signed a two-year contract there from the 2019/20 season with an extension option for another year.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Laet signs ( Memento from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ De Laet ( Memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ DE LAET RETURNS TO OLD TRAFFORD ( Memento of March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Leicester City sign Man Utd duo. itv news, May 15, 2012, accessed on June 30, 2019 .
  5. ^ Middlesbrough sign defender Ritchie De Laet on loan from Leicester City. In: www.espn.com. February 1, 2016, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ Ritchie De Laet: Aston Villa sign Leicester City defender on three-year contract. BBC, August 23, 2016, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Antwerp region overeenkomst met Ritchie de Laet. Royal Antwerp, January 23, 2018, accessed June 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Aston Villa's De Laet reportedly willing to take pay-cut to join Antwerp. In: GRV Media Ltd. May 19, 2018, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Melbourne City FC signs defender Ritchie De Laet. Melbourne City FC, September 14, 2018, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  10. ^ Welcome home Ritchie. Royal Antwerp, June 29, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019 (Dutch).


personal data
SURNAME De Laet, Ritchie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Laet, Richard Ria Alfons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Belgium