Steven Defour

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Steven Defour
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Steven Defour (2015)
Personnel
birthday April 15, 1988
place of birth MechelenBelgium
size 174 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1992-2002 KV Mechelen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2006 KRC Genk 30 0(1)
2006-2011 Standard Liege 115 (13)
2011-2014 FC Porto 65 0(3)
2014-2016 RSC Anderlecht 63 0(9)
2016-2019 Burnley FC 51 0(2)
2019-2020 Royal Antwerp 11 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2003 Belgium U-15 5 0(1)
2003-2004 Belgium U-16 11 0(1)
2004-2005 Belgium U-17 11 0(1)
2005 Belgium U18 1 0(0)
2006– Belgium 52 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of November 14, 2017

Steven Defour (born April 15, 1988 in Mechelen ) is a Belgian football player . He has been without a contract since July 2020. It is right-footed and can be used universally in midfield.

Career

society

Defour was a junior player with Hombeek and KV Mechelen . In 2002 he moved to the junior department at KRC Genk . In 2004, when he was sixteen at the time, his first assignment in the professional sector followed. Defour should have a breakthrough in the following season. After a third and a fourth place with Genk, the midfielder decided to move. Before that, however, there was a problem with his current employer who would not let Defour go. With the help of a law from 1978, the all-rounder was able to terminate his contract with Genk. In the summer of 2006 he signed a five-year contract with league rival Standard Liège and was appointed captain for the 2007/08 season at the age of 19 . So he replaced Sérgio Conceição . After good performances during this season, Defour was awarded the Golden Shoe at the end of the season , replacing Mbark Boussoufa . He also led his team to their first title win since 1983. In the following year, this success was defended. At the end of 2009, the midfield all-rounder broke his right foot and was out for an indefinite period. Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson then sent him a recovery note. For the new year he reported healthy again. Shortly afterwards, in March, Defour extended his contract for two years until 2015.

In August 2011 he moved to the Portuguese first division club FC Porto . After three years he will move back to Belgium to RSC Anderlecht for a transfer of 6 million euros.

With that he switched from Standard Liège to rival Anderlecht via Porto from the point of view of the ultra fans. As a result, at the next home game against RSC Anderlecht, they showed a smuggled banner showing a decapitated Defour. Because of this incident, the Belgian Football Association imposed only a threat of punishment against Standard for a game closed to the public and a fine of 5,000 euros if a new incident occurred within a year.

After two years at RSC Anderlecht, Defour moved to Burnley FC , which plays in the Premier League , the highest English league, for a transfer fee of 8.6 million euros .

As a result of injury, he was out there from January to September 2018. He then played six games again, the last time on December 1, 2018. Since then, he has played in two FA Cup games and was part of the squad in two league games without being used. At the end of August 2019, Defour asked the club to terminate the contract for personal reasons.

Defour then returned to Belgium and signed a one-year contract with first division Royal Antwerp . Until the end of the season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , he made 11 out of 29 possible league games and one appearance in the cup. When the contract expired, there was no agreement on an extension.

Defour has been without a contract since the end of the 2019/20 season.

National team

Defour made his national team debut in May 2006 at the age of eighteen . In the friendly against Saudi Arabia on May 11, 2006 , he was called up by coach René Vandereycken on the starting line-up and only replaced in the 89th minute for Nicolas Lombaerts . The game was won 2-1. From then on he was regularly appointed to the Red Devil squad.

On September 3, 2010, in the European Championship qualifier against Germany, he was substituted on with two different numbers on his jersey. The (correct) 15 could be seen on the chest, but the 14th on the back.

At the 2014 World Cup , he was on the pitch for the first time in the third group match against South Korea and received the red card in the 45th minute. It was therefore suspended for the round of 16. In the quarter-finals against Argentina, in which the Belgian national team were eliminated, he was not considered.

As a result of injury, he was not part of the squad at the 2016 European Championship . His last international match so far was a six-minute deployment on November 14, 2017 in a friendly against Japan.

successes

society

Individually

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Defour terminates the contract of June 17, 2007 on transfermarkt.de
  2. New club for Defour from July 11, 2006 on transfermarkt.de
  3. Defour ready to make next step from October 26, 2010 on soccernet.espn.go.com (English)
  4. New contract for Defour from March 30, 2010 on transfermarkt.de
  5. Transferts. (No longer available online.) Standard Liège, August 15, 2011, archived from the original on April 8, 2012 ; accessed on August 28, 2020 (French).
  6. FC Porto vendeu o passe de Steven Defour ao Anderlecht for 6 M €. Sic Noticias, August 13, 2014, accessed September 6, 2019 (Portuguese).
  7. Jannik Sorgatz: Ultras deceive Standard Liège with “head off choreography”. Rheinische Post, January 26, 2015, accessed on September 6, 2019 .
  8. Standard does not appeal - ghost game accepted. Belgian Broadcasting, February 13, 2015, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  9. Burnley FC sign Steven Defour for a club record transfer. In: Sportal. August 16, 2016, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  10. Steven Defour: Ex-Burnley midfielder joins Royal Antwerp. BBC, September 3, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  11. ontdek onze nieuwe reds. Royal Antwerp, September 2, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 (Dutch).
  12. ^ After Verstraete engagement: Steven Defour leaves Antwerp. In: Grenzecho. June 24, 2020, accessed August 28, 2020 .
  13. Match report: Belgium - Saudi Arabia 2: 1 (1: 1) on weltfussball.de
  14. Curiosity: Steven Defour with 2 jersey numbers from September 3, 2010.
predecessor Office successor
Mbark Boussoufa Belgium's Footballer of the Year
2007
Axel Witsel