Lorenzo Staelens
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lorenzo Jules Staelens | ||
Date of birth | 30 April 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Lauwe, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Sweeper, midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1982–1987 | KWSC Lauwe | ||
1987–1989 | Kortrijk | 64 | (11) |
1989–1998 | Club Brugge | 286 | (75) |
1998–2000 | Anderlecht | 67 | (10) |
2001 | Oita Trinita | 26 | (2) |
National team | |||
1990–2000 | Belgium | 70 | (8) |
Teams managed | |||
2002–2003 | Mouscron | ||
2004 | Eendracht Aalst | ||
2007–2008 | Roeselare (assistant) | ||
2008–2013 | Cercle Brugge (assistant) | ||
2013–2014 | Cercle Brugge | ||
2015 | OMS Ingelmunster[1] | ||
2016–2017 | Royal Mouscron (assistant) | ||
2017–2018 | KV Kortrijk (assistant) | ||
2018–2019 | Knokke | ||
2019 | Lokeren (assistant) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Lorenzo Jules Staelens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːrɛnzoː ˈstaːləns]; born 30 April 1964) is a retired Belgian footballer who was released as a manager in March 2019 by Knokke.
Having started his career as a defensive midfielder, he finished it as a sweeper at nearly 40, and scored more than 100 goals overall.
Staelens appeared for the Belgian national team in three World Cups, adding the Euro 2000 tournament played on home soil.
Club career[]
Born in Lauwe, Staelens started his professional career with K.V. Kortrijk at already 23, and his two solid seasons there attracted the attention of top division giants Club Brugge KV.
There, he proceeded to form a legendary midfield partnership with Franky Van der Elst, that would last nearly a decade. Staelens played 369 games in all competitions for the club, scoring 105 goals.
At already 34, and more often than not playing in the backline, he moved to R.S.C. Anderlecht, still being instrumental in the club's back-to-back championships (2000 and 2001), and winning the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1999; however, he did not finish his last year, moving to Japan's Oita Trinita in early 2001 and retiring shortly after.
Staelens took up coaching subsequently, first with R.E. Mouscron. After only two months at V.C. Eendracht Aalst, he returned to first club Kortrijk as its general manager, only returning to the benches in 2007, as assistant coach at K.S.V. Roeselare. Staelens kept that role in the subsequent years, with the other team from Bruges, Cercle KSV.
International career[]
As an inexperienced international player, Staelens was selected to Belgium's squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup; there, he appeared in the 1–2 group stage match against Spain.
From then on, Staelens became an essential national team member, representing it also at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups and in UEFA Euro 2000, totalling a further 10 complete matches.[2]
Statistics[]
Club[]
Club performance | League | |||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals |
Belgium | League | |||
1987–88 | Kortrijk | Belgian Pro League | 32 | 4 |
1988–89 | 32 | 7 | ||
1989–90 | Brugge | Belgian Pro League | 34 | 4 |
1990–91 | 33 | 4 | ||
1991–92 | 31 | 5 | ||
1992–93 | 34 | 7 | ||
1993–94 | 33 | 12 | ||
1994–95 | 34 | 16 | ||
1995–96 | 30 | 12 | ||
1996–97 | 31 | 8 | ||
1997–98 | 26 | 6 | ||
1998–99 | Anderlecht | Belgian Pro League | 24 | 6 |
1999–2000 | 29 | 1 | ||
2000–01 | 14 | 3 | ||
Japan | League | |||
2001 | Oita Trinita | J2 League | 26 | 2 |
Country | Belgium | 417 | 95 | |
Japan | 26 | 2 | ||
Total | 443 | 97 |
National team[]
Belgium national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
1990 | 3 | 0 |
1991 | 3 | 0 |
1992 | 4 | 1 |
1993 | 6 | 0 |
1994 | 11 | 0 |
1995 | 8 | 0 |
1996 | 3 | 0 |
1997 | 6 | 5 |
1998 | 8 | 0 |
1999 | 11 | 1 |
2000 | 7 | 1 |
Total | 70 | 8 |
Honours[]
Club[]
Club Brugge[3]
- Belgian First Division: 1989–90, 1991–92, 1995–96, 1997–98
- Belgian Cup: 1990–91, 1994–95, 1995–96
- Belgian Super Cup: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996
- Bruges Matins: 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996[4]
- Amsterdam Tournament: 1990[5]
- Jules Pappaert Cup: 1991, 1995[6]
- RSC Anderlecht[7]
- Belgian First Division: 1999–00
- Belgian League Cup: 2000[8]
- Belgian Super Cup: 2000
- Belgian Sports Team of the Year: 2000[9]
Individual[]
References[]
- ^ Lorenzo Staelens stapt op bij Ingelmunster na twee wedstrijden, nieuwsblad.be, 26 October 2015
- ^ Lorenzo Staelens – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ "Club Brugge | Palmares".
- ^ "Winnaars Brugse Metten".
- ^ "Amsterdam Tournament".
- ^ "Jules Pappaert Cup".
- ^ "RSC Anderlecht | Palmares".
- ^ "Aimé en Marc terug in het Astridpark".
- ^ "Rode Duivels Ploeg van het Jaar".
- ^ a b "Winnaars Gouden Schoen".
External links[]
- Lorenzo Staelens – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Lorenzo Staelens at National-Football-Teams.com
- Lorenzo Staelens at J.League (in Japanese)
- Lorenzo Staelens at WorldFootball.net
- Club Brugge archives (in Dutch)
- Lorenzo Staelens at Footballdatabase
- 1964 births
- Living people
- People from Menen
- Sportspeople from West Flanders
- Belgian footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Association football defenders
- Belgian First Division A players
- K.V. Kortrijk players
- Club Brugge KV players
- R.S.C. Anderlecht players
- J2 League players
- Oita Trinita players
- Belgium international footballers
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- 1994 FIFA World Cup players
- 1998 FIFA World Cup players
- UEFA Euro 2000 players
- Belgian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Japan
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Belgian football managers
- Royal Excel Mouscron managers
- Cercle Brugge K.S.V. managers
- S.C. Eendracht Aalst managers