Dante Vanzeir
Belgian association football player
Dante Vanzeir (born 16 April 1998) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward and winger for Pro League side Cercle Brugge on loan from Gent, and the Belgium national team.
Club career
Genk
Born in Beringen, Vanzeir is a youth exponent from K.R.C. Genk. He started playing with the youth academy of Genk when he was eleven.
He made his Belgian Pro League debut on 18 September 2016 in a 2–0 home defeat against Anderlecht, replacing Leon Bailey after 81 minutes. Vanzeir scored his first goal in the Belgian Pro League on 24 January 2018 in a 2–1 victory against Lokeren. On 20 July 2019, Vanzeir scored the third goal for Genk in a 3–0 victory over Mechelen in the 2019 Belgian Super Cup.
Loan to Beerschot Wilrijk
For the 2018–19 season Vanzeir was loaned to Beerschot Wilrijk in the second-tier First Division B. While with Beerschot Wilrijk he contributed 16 goals in 39 matches helping his team compete at the top of the division and narrowly missing out on promotion.
Loan to KV Mechelen
For the 2019–20 season Vanzeir was loaned to newly promoted top flight club KV Mechelen. On 20 September 2019 he scored his first two goals for the club in a 3–2 victory against K.V. Kortrijk.
Union SG
On 30 July 2020, Genk announced that they had sold Vanzeir to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, with whom he signed a contract until the summer of 2023.
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