Tom De Sutter

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Tom De Sutter
Personal information
Full name Tom De Sutter
Date of birth July 3, 1985 (1985-07-03) (age 22)
Place of birth    Ghent, Belgium
Height 192 cm
Playing position forward
Club information
Current club Cercle Brugge
Number 10
Youth clubs
1992-1997
1997-2001
2001-2005		 VV Balegem
St. Wetteren
Club Brugge
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2005-2006
2006-		 Torhout KM
Cercle Brugge		  ? (?)
43 (14)   
National team2
2006-2008
2008-		 Belgium U21
Belgium		 4 (3)
0 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 10 February 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 10 February 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Tom De Sutter (born July 3, 1985 in Zottegem) is a Belgian football player. He is a tall attacker, which makes him an ideal target man.

De Sutter started his football activities at his local team K.V.V. Balegem, where he was discovered by Third division side St. Wetteren. From there, he moved to Club Brugge where he couldn't manage to get a place in the first team, so he moved back to a team in Third division, Torhout KM this time. De Sutter only stayed there for one season, as he was discovered by Clubs city rivals, Cercle Brugge, after a friendly match in which De Sutter scored a hat-trick. At Cercle, he managed a breakthrough almost immediately, scoring in his first official match against Excelsior Mouscron.

De Sutters performances were also noticed by Jean-François De Sart, the Belgian national under-21 coach, electing him for the team since his transfer to Cercle. He was part of the squad that qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

On November 27, 2007, De Sutter scored 4 goals in 21 minutes in a Belgian Cup game, playing away against KV Mechelen. In the next round, his goal decided the derby against Cercles main rival Club Brugge, one of De Sutter's former youth teams. The stronger and stronger performances by De Sutter didn't go unnoticed during the 2007-08 mid season break. De Sutter raised the interest from a.o. Anderlecht and Trabzonspor, and he was voted Best Player of the First Half of the Season[1] by Belgian football fans and media. He also surprised with a third place in the Golden Shoe election of 2007.

On February 1, Cercle Brugge announced that after the cup match at home against Standard Liège, in which De Sutter scored the final 4-1 goal, Cercle received some bids for De Sutter. The highest bid was rumoured to be one of € 7.5 million from Zenit Saint Petersburg, although head coach Dick Advocaat denied this.[2] Cercle Brugge spokesman Pol Van Den Driessche confirmed in één program De Zevende Dag that it was not a bid by Zenit, but that it was a Eastern European team and that it was a bid between € 5 and 10 million. However, De Sutter decided to stay with Cercle until (at least) the end of the season.

At the end of January 2008, national coach Rene Vandereycken included De Sutter in his team for Belgium's unofficial friendly match against Standard Liège. One day before the match, De Sutter tore one of his knee ligaments, leaving him a 6 month rehabilitation.

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Flag of Serbia Darko Pivaljević		 Cercle Brugge Topscorer
alongside Stijn De Smet and Oleg Iachtchouk
2008		 Succeeded by
Incumbent

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Cercle-aanvaller Tom De Sutter verkozen tot beste speler van de eerste seizoenshelft", SportWereld, 2008-01-11. Retrieved on 2008-01-14. 
  2. ^ "Geen enkel bod kon mij doen twijfelen", Sporza, 2008-02-01. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. 
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