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Dries Mertens
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Dries Mertens is a Belgian association football player born on 6 May 1987 in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium. He plays as a wing half and has represented several clubs, including KAA Gent, FC Utrecht, AGOVV Apeldoorn, and SSC Napoli. His professional career began in 2005.
Mertens has participated in major international tournaments, including the 2014 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2016, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He represents Belgium in international competition. The player is 169 centimeters tall and weighs 61 kilograms. He speaks Dutch.
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Film & TV
Acting · Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
Dries Mertens was born on May 6, 1987, in Leuven, Belgium. Showing an early interest in football, Mertens was part of the youth academies of established Belgian clubs Anderlecht and Gent, but was released from both due to being deemed physically insufficient. This proved to be a turning point in his career, leading him to decide to play football in the Netherlands. He began his professional…
Known for
- Masters of Madness — Self - Founder2025
- Sergio Across Borders — Self2022
- Over De Oceaan — Self2020
- WK 2014: De ontbolstering van een gouden generatie bij de Rode Duivels — Self2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
- Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
· 2006 · cited 3,155x
- Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
· 2019 · cited 2,483x
- Mechanisms linking obesity with cardiovascular disease
· 2006 · cited 2,260x
- SANRA—a scale for the quality assessment of narrative review articles
· 2019 · cited 2,233x
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Free Agent Soccer
- Position
- Second Striker
- Nationality
- Belgium
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Mertens
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Leuven
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Galatasaray S.K.
- Position played
- wing half
- Country for sport
- Belgium
- Mass
- 61
- Image
- Mertens 2018 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 169
Show 6 more facts
- sport number
- 10
- Commons category
- Dries Mertens
- date of birth
- 1987-05-06
- name in native language
- Dries Mertens
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 924852
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Dries Mertens ( Dutch pronunciation: [dris ˈmɛrtəns]; born 6 May 1987) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played either as a attacking-midfielder or winger. He is nicknamed "Ciro".
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