Wesley Sonck

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Personal information
Wesley Sonck
Full name	Wesley Sonck
Date of birth	August 9, 1978 (age 28)
Place of birth	Ninove, Belgium
Height	174 cm
Playing position	striker
Club information
Current club	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number	9
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2003 2003-2004 2005-	R.W.D. Molenbeek Germinal Ekeren K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot K.R.C. Genk AFC Ajax Borussia Mönchengladbach	33 (11) 32 (7) 29 (11) 93 (67) 34 (10) 21 (6)
National team²
2002 -	Belgium	37 (15)
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 currently playing for Borussia Mönchengladbach. 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 spell with Borussia Mönchengladbach of the German Bundesliga has, so far, been hampered by ongoing 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 goal- and 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.

Preceded by Jan Koller	Belgian Golden Shoe 2001	Succeeded by Timmy Simons

	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