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Philippe Léonard

Philippe Léonard
Personal information
Full name Philippe Léonard
Date of birth (1974-02-14) 14 February 1974 (age 43)
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.


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