Personal information | |||
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Full name | Philippe Léonard | ||
Date of birth | 14 February 1974 | ||
Place of birth | Liège, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1996 | Standard Liège | 124 | (3) |
1996–2003 | Monaco | 99 | (3) |
2004 | Nice | 14 | (0) |
2004–2006 | Standard Liège | 55 | (3) |
2006–2007 | Feyenoord | 2 | (0) |
2008 | Rapid Bucureşti | 10 | (0) |
Total | 304 | (9) | |
National team | |||
1991 | Belgium U19 | 2 | (0) |
1992–1995 | Belgium U21 | 9 | (1) |
1994–2006 | Belgium | 26 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Philippe Léonard (born 14 February 1974) is a Belgian retired footballer who played as a left back.
After playing most notably for Standard Liège and Monaco, he rarely appeared for his following four teams (including Standard again) in a 16-year professional career.
Léonard represented Belgium at Euro 2000, being an international over a 12-year period.
Born in Liège, Léonard started his professional career at Standard Liège. There, alongside Régis Genaux and Michaël Goossens, he was part of generation – with Roberto Bisconti playing a smaller role – hailed for their sporting talent but with a troublesome character.
He won the Belgian Cup in 1993, only 19, having scored in the final against R. Charleroi SC, and also helped the side to two runner-up league places (1992–93 and 1994–95), each time bowing out to R.S.C. Anderlecht.
Subsequently, Léonard moved to France where he played with AS Monaco FC, also having a brief stint with OGC Nice. Whilst at Monaco, he scored in the semifinal of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League against Juventus FC, in a 4–6 aggregate loss, being the only Belgian player to score at this stage of the competition; in the previous round, he helped oust Manchester United on the away goals rule after a 1–1 draw at Old Trafford.