Walter Baseggio

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Walter Baseggio
Personnel
birthday 19th August 1978
place of birth Clabecq , Tubize ,  Belgium
size 184 cm
position attacking midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1985-1991 SC Clabecq
1991-1996 RSC Anderlecht
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-2007 RSC Anderlecht 254 (42)
2006 →  FBC Treviso  (loan) 28 0(1)
2008-2009 Excelsior Mouscron 41 0(6)
2010-2011 AFC Tubize 15 0(1)
2011–2012 Patro Lensois
2012-2013 ETSP Brainoise
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-1993 Belgium U15 2 0(0)
1995 Belgium U16 3 0(2)
1994-1995 Belgium U17 5 0(2)
1995-2000 Belgium U18 11 0(4)
1996 Belgium U19 5 0(2)
1996-1999 Belgium U21 8 0(2)
1999-2005 Belgium 27 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Baseggio (born August 19, 1978 in Clabecq , Tubize ) is a former Belgian - Italian football player on the position of an attacking midfielder. With Anderlecht he was five-time champion, four-time Super Cup winner and in 2000 league cup winner.

Career

The Belgian-Italian dual citizen started his career in 1996 with the Belgian record champions RSC Anderlecht, where he played a total of 254 games and scored 42 goals. During this time he was also able to celebrate five league titles and qualify for the UEFA Champions League several times .

Due to his strong performances for Anderlecht, he was also appointed to the Belgian national football team. He made his debut on March 27, 1999 against Bulgaria . His only international goal he scored on February 28, 2001 in the qualifier for the 2002 World Cup against San Marino . Baseggio had his last appearance for the national team on February 9, 2005 against Egypt .

During the winter break of the 2005/06 season, Baseggio moved to Treviso FBC in 1993 in the Italian Serie A , where he scored a goal in 15 games. At the end of the season Treviso finished last, an increase in the Serie B from. Baseggio moved back to RSC Anderlecht during the winter break of the following season and played for the Belgian first division club Excelsior Mouscron since January 2008 . In July 2009, Baseggio was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. By the end of the 2008/09 season he had completed a total of 297 games in the First Division and scored 48 goals.

In February 2010, he was so far recovered from the disease that he was no longer receiving any radiation. Just four months later, it was announced that he was about to return to professional football and had started contract negotiations with second division AFC Tubize from his hometown Tubize for the 2010/11 season. There he ended his active career at the end of the season after 15 years in professional football. His last assignment was on December 14, 2010; then he was no longer in any league game in the AFC Tubize squad.

After the end of his professional career, he joined the provincial club Patro Lensois and worked for them throughout the 2011/12 season. In May 2012, during a routine check-up by Baseggio's doctors, it was found that his cancer had returned. Despite his renewed illness, he wanted to continue his football career in the amateur field and then switched to ETSP Brainoise , where his uncle is active on the club's board. At the club he finally worked until 2013.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Baseggio heeft kanker ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 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. , hln.be from August 25, 2009, viewed May 18, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hln.be
  2. ↑ Walter Baseggio Genezen van kanker , belang Het van Limburg of 9 February 2010, spotted on 18 May 2010
  3. ↑ Bref état des lieux  ( 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. , AFC Tubize website from May 18, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.afctubize.be  
  4. ↑ Baseggio vindt nieuwe club (Dutch), accessed on 11 August 2014
personal data
SURNAME Baseggio, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Clabecq , Tubize, Belgium