Wesley Sonck

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Wesley Sonck
Personal information
Date of birth	August 9, 1978 (1978-08-09) (age 29)
Place of birth	Ninove, Belgium
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Club Brugge
Number	10
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2003 2003-2004 2005-2007 2007-present	R.W.D. Molenbeek Germinal Ekeren Germinal Beerschot RC Genk Ajax Borussia Mönchengladbach Club Brugge	33 (15) 32 (12) 29 (14) 93 (65) 34 (10) 33 (10) 6 (3)
National team2
2002-present	Belgium	39 (16)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 30, 2005. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of June 30, 2005. * Appearances (Goals)

Wesley Sonck, (born in Ninove, August 9, 1978), is a Belgian football striker playing for Club Brugge. Before, he played for K.R.C. Genk in Jupiler League from where he joined AFC Ajax in 2003 for about five million Euro. He finished topscorer of Belgian Jupiler League in 2002 (30 goals) and in 2003 (22 goals, as much as Cédric Roussel). He also plays for the Belgium national football team.

His game with Borussia Mönchengladbach of the German Bundesliga was hampered by injuries. Two months after joining the club on loan from AFC Ajax, where he could not make his peace with manager Ronald Koeman, Sonck sustained a kidney disease and did not return to action before the end of 2004-2005. Mönchengladbach then signed him on a permanent contract, a deal initially arranged already at the start of his loan. In the summer of 2005 Sonck had three of his ribs broken after a horror tackle by Wilfred Bouma in a goalless, meaningless friendly between Borussia Mönchengladbach & PSV Eindhoven. Sonck took six months to recover, marking his return to competitive football with a goal in a 3-1 defeat by Bayern Munich. He scored three more in 13 further Bundesliga games for Mönchengladbach until he was forced out for three months with an injury in the hollow of his knee at the start of the season of 2006-2007. He left Gladbach at the end of the season, joining Club Brugge on a year long loan deal while Borussia Mönchengladbach play in the second tier of the Bundesliga.

v • d • e Belgium squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup 1 De Vlieger • 2 Deflandre • 3 De Boeck • 4 Van Meir • 5 Van Kerckhoven • 6 Simons • 7 Wilmots • 8 Goor • 9 Sonck • 10 Walem • 11 Verheyen • 12 Van Der Heyden • 13 Vandendriessche • 14 Vermant • 15 Peeters • 16 Van Buyten • 17 Englebert • 18 Vanderhaeghe • 19 Thijs • 20 Strupar • 21 Boffin • 22 Mpenza • 23 Herpoel • Coach: Waseige

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