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Dries Mertens
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Dries Mertens is a Belgian soccer player born in 1987 who has competed professionally in the sport. He is notable as a representative of Belgian football talent on the international stage.
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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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* 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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