Walter Baseggio

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Personal information
Walter Baseggio
Full name	Walter Baseggio
Date of birth	August 19, 1978 (1978-08-19) (age 29)
Place of birth	Clabecq, Belgium
Playing position	Centre midfielder
Club information
Current club	R.E. Mouscron
Youth clubs
1985-1991 1991-1996	S.C. Clabecq R.S.C. Anderlecht
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-2006 2006 2007-2008 2008-	R.S.C. Anderlecht Treviso F.B.C. 1993 R.S.C. Anderlecht R.E. Mouscron	279 (49) 22 (1) 2 (0) 0 (0)
National team
1999-	Belgium	27 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 24, 2005. * Appearances (Goals)

Walter Baseggio (born August 19, 1978 in Clabecq) is a Belgian football midfielder currently on the books of R.E. Mouscron. He also played for the Belgian national team, though he was regularly injured for short periods of time when the national team played. Baseggio is born from Italian parents: his mother comes from Naples and his father from Treviso.

He made an impressive debut for R.S.C. Anderlecht aged 17, against old rival Standard Liège, and scored his first goal on that occasion. At the time a hot prospect for the future, he was in direct competition with Pär Zetterberg and Enzo Scifo, two players whose talent was already confirmed. Eventually, Baseggio became a first team regular, and then the maestro of the team after the departures of the aforementioned players in the late 1990s. With the come-back of Swedish Zetterberg in the summer of 2003, coach Hugo Broos decided that there was no room for both players so Baseggio played few games until Broos was fired in February 2005. After a disappointing end of season, he also played second-choice for new coach Franky Vercauteren in 2005-2006, and was transfer listed, joining Italy's Treviso F.B.C. 1993 in January 2006. However, in the mid-season interval of the next season, he came back to Anderlecht.

In the 2008 winter transfer window, Baseggio moved to R.E. Mouscron for an undisclosed fee, with a contract that expires in 2010.

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Preceded by Eric Addo	Belgian Young Footballer of the Year 1998-2000	Succeeded by Alin Stoica

v • d • e R.E. Mouscron – current squad

1 Volders • 2 Tohoua • 3 Charlet • 4 Dugardein • 7 Ćustović • 8 Grimaldi • 9 Demba • 11 Tailson • 12 Besengez • 14 Tomou • 15 Van Gijseghem • 16 Fellahi • 18 Toyes • 19 Chantry • 20 Grondin • 21 Martin • 22 Teklak • 24 Hatchi • 25 Dorothée • -- Nicoise • -- Al Anzi • -- Assou-Ekotto • -- Stoica • -- Baseggio • Manager: Enzo Scifo