Filip Daems

Filip Daems (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈdaːms]; born 31 October 1978) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender.[1][2]

Filip Daems
Daems with Mönchengladbach in 2015
Personal information
Full name Filip Daems
Date of birth (1978-10-31) 31 October 1978
Place of birth Turnhout, Belgium
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1986–1989 FCV Alberta Geel[1]
1989–1998 Geel[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2001 Lierse 83 (3)
2001–2005 Gençlerbirliği 98 (13)
2005–2015 Borussia Mönchengladbach 210 (14)
2015–2017 Westerlo 51 (3)
Total 442 (33)
National team
2000 Belgium U18 1 (0)
1998–1999 Belgium U21 9 (0)
2004–2009 Belgium 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Daems kicked off his career with Verbroedering Geel in 1995, staying with the club till 1998 in the Belgian second division. During his stint with the club, he played 40 times and also scored two goals. Between 1999 and 2001, he played for Belgian Pro League club, featuring 83 times and finding the net thrice. Then he went to play for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği from 2001 to 2005, spending four seasons, playing 98 times and finding the net 13 times.[3]

In January 2005, Daems signed for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, penning a contract till June 2008.[4] In his first season with the club, he played 11 times without scoring a goal.[3] He would play the first match of the 2005–06 season against Schalke 04 in single goal draw.[5] He would end the season featuring 22 times for the German club.[5] However, he spent the 2006–07 season with the reserves, Borussia Mönchengladbach II, in the Regionalliga Nord, the then third tier of German football.[3] For the 2007–08 season, the club played in 2. Bundesliga[3] and Daems even scored a goal against 1. FC Köln.[6] Mönchengladbach won the second tier and gained promotion to the 2008–09 Bundesliga.[5] During that season, he scored two goals, one against Eintracht Frankfurt[7] and one against Bayern Munich.[8] In the 2009–10 season, he played 18 times scoring one goal.[5] The goal was scored against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, where he scored a 31st-minute penalty.[9] In the 2010–11 season, he played the whole ninety minutes of each of the 34 league matches. Daems also scored four times against Schalke 04, VfL Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Köln.[5]

References
  1. "Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. "Daems beendet seine Karriere". RP Online (in German). 11 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. "National-Football-Teams profile". National-Football-Teams. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. "Nummer 6: Borussia holt Filip Daems" (in German). kicker.de. 20 January 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  6. "Borussia M'gladbach vs. Köln 2 - 2". Soccerway. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  7. "Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Borussia M'gladbach 4 - 1". Soccerway. 18 April 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  8. "Bayern München vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 1". Soccerway. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  9. "Hoffenheim vs. Borussia M'gladbach 2 - 2". Soccerway. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2015.


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