Walter Baseggio

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Walter Baseggio
Personal information
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