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.jpg) Mertens with Belgium at the 2018 FIFA World Cup | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Dries Mertens[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 May 1987[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Leuven, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward, winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Galatasaray | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Stade Leuven | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2003 | Anderlecht | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Gent | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Gent | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | → Eendracht Aalst (loan) | 14 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | → AGOVV (loan) | 35 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | AGOVV | 73 | (28) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Utrecht | 69 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | PSV Eindhoven | 62 | (37) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2022 | Napoli | 295 | (113) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Galatasaray | 82 | (19) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Belgium U17 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2022 | Belgium | 109 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:16, 22 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:09, 1 December 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Dries "Ciro"[4][5] Mertens (Dutch pronunciation: [dris ˈmɛrtəns]; born 6 May 1987) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray.
As a youth, Mertens played for Stade Leuven, Anderlecht and Gent, and made his debut on loan to Eendracht Aalst in the Belgian Third Division. In 2006, he moved to Dutch Eerste Divisie club AGOVV Apeldoorn, where he spent three years before a €600,000 move to Utrecht of the Eredivisie. Two years later, Mertens and teammate Kevin Strootman were transferred to PSV Eindhoven for a combined fee of €13 million, and won the KNVB Cup and Johan Cruyff Shield in 2012. In 2013, Mertens signed for Napoli for a €9.6 million fee, and went on to make nearly 400 appearances for the club. He won the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana in 2014, and was named in the Serie A Team of the Year during the 2016–17 season. In 2020, Mertens scored his 122nd goal for Napoli, surpassing Marek Hamšík as the club's all-time top goalscorer.[6] In 2022, he joined Turkish side Galatasaray, and won two consecutive Süper Lig titles.
Mertens made his Belgium debut in 2011, and made over 100 appearances for the national team. He was part of the nation's squads at the FIFA World Cup in 2014, 2018 and 2022 and the UEFA European Championship in 2016 and 2020, helping them to a third-place finish at the 2018 tournament. In 2016, he was named Belgian Footballer of the Year.
- ^ "Squad List: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Belgium (BEL)" (PDF). FIFA. 18 December 2022. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Dries Mertens: Overview". ESPN. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
- ^ "Prima Squadra – Dries Mertens". SSC Napoli. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ Era Dries, ora è Ciro: la storia d'amore tra Mertens e Napoli goal.com, Leonardo Gualano, 6 May 2020, article in Italian
- ^ Mertens to be honorary citizen of Naples? football-Italia.net, 19 May 2020
- ^ "Napoli 1–1 Inter Milan". BBC Sport. 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.