Karel Geraerts

Karel Geraerts

File:KAREL Geraerts Club Brugge.jpg
Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-01-05) 5 January 1982
Place of birth	Genk, Belgium
Height
Position(s)	Central midfielder
Team information
Current team	Charleroi
Number	23
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2000–2004	Club Brugge	9	(0)
2004	→ Lokeren (loan)	16	(0)
2004–2007	Standard Liège	93	(16)
2007–2011	Club Brugge	119	(15)
2011–2014	Oud-Heverlee Leuven	78	(12)
2014–	Charleroi	32	(2)
International career
2005–2009	Belgium	20	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 November 2015

Karel Geraerts (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː.rəl ˈʝeː.raːrts]) (born 5 January 1982 in Genk) is a Belgian football player who plays for Charleroi.

Career

Geraerts played for Club Brugge from 1998 to December 2003. In 2004 Club Brugge lent him to Lokeren where he scored his first goal in the Jupiler League. In the summer of 2004 he moved to Standard Liège. In June 2007 he went back to Bruges. As a youngster the midfielder played with C.S. Mechelen-aan-de-Maas and Racing Genk (from 1996 to 1998) before he moved to the youth team of Club Brugge. After the 2010-11 season, Geraerts was no longer part of the plans at Club Brugge and was told he could look for a new club, which resulted in him signing with newly promoted side Oud-Heverlee Leuven on the last day of the transfer period. Geraerts' contract ended in 2014 and with Oud-Heverlee Leuven just being relegated, is was not renewed. This allowed him to move as a free agent player to Charleroi.

In 2005, Geraerts debuted for the Belgium national football team. In his first match in the starting line-up, on 12 October in and against Lithuania in a World Cup qualifier, he scored the opening goal.

International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	12 October 2005	Žalgiris Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuania	0–1	1-1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.	20 May 2006	Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia	Slovakia	1–1	1-1	Friendly
3.	12 September 2007	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	0–1	2-1	UEFA Euro 2008 qualification
4.	17 October 2007	Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium	Armenia	3–0	3-0	UEFA Euro 2008 qualification

References

• Karel Geraerts at Soccerway
• Karel Geraerts at National-Football-Teams.com