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Jonathan Legear

Jonathan Legear

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Legear moved to Anderlecht from their rivals Standard Liège in 2003. He scored his first goal in the Jupiler League against Standard Liège in the 2004–05 season. He was initially registered to the football club of J.S Thier (Jeunesse sportive du Thier-à-Liège), a small club near Liège at the age of eight, a club where he showed a promising future in Belgian football. From there he was scouted by the Standard Liège Academy who recruited him in 1998. Despite the tacit agreement between the top three clubs in Belgium, which prevents transfers between those clubs academies, Legear moved from Standard to Anderlecht in 2003. In the 2007–08 season, Legear made the breakthrough into the Anderlecht starting XI and featured regularly in the team's Jupiler League and European competition matches. This was a result of his increasing level of performances, as well as Anderlecht's lack of attacking options on the right wing. He was touted as the next Christian Wilhelmsson, with similar hair color and speed on the flank. On 26 August 2011, Legear joined Terek Grozny of the Russian Premier League, signing a three-year contract for a fee of €1.8 million. He made his league debut on 12 September 2011 against Kuban Krasnodar, a match which Terek lost 1–2. Legear marked his first goal in the 2012–13 season, scoring the opener against Mordovia Saransk on 10 November 2012 to give his side a 2–1 victory. On 17 January 2014, his contract was terminated by mutual consent after disagreements…

International career

Legear made his debut for the Belgium national team on 8 October 2010 in a 2–0 European Championship qualifier win against Kazakhstan.

Club
FC Akhmat Grozny (2011–2013)
Club
R.S.C. Anderlecht (2004–2011)
Club
KV Mechelen (2014–2014)
Club
Olympiacos F.C. (2014–2014)
Club
Blackpool F.C. (2014–2014)
Club
Standard Liège (2015–)
Club
Belgium national under-17 association football team (2003–2004)
Club
Belgium national under-19 football team (2005–2006)
Club
Belgium national under-21 football team (2007–2008)
Club
Belgium men's national football team (2010–2010)
Club
Blackpool F.C. (2014–2015)
Club
Olympiacos F.C. (2014–2015)
National team
Belgium

Personal

Personal life

On 7 October 2012, Legear was involved in a car accident in which he crashed his car, while being drunk, inside an Esso gas station located in Tongeren, having mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake. Damage costs were revealed to be between €250,000 and €300,000 by an Esso spokesman, with Legear also receiving a two-week driving suspension. He had earlier been involved in a similar incident in 2009, where he was sentenced to 50 hours of community service for having driven his car into a house after a night out.

Legacy

Honours

Anderlecht

Belgian First Division: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10 Belgian Cup: 2007–08 Belgian Super Cup: 2010 Standard Liège

Belgian Cup: 2015–16

Clubs

Played together with

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Belgian footballer

Position

wing half

Extract from Wikipedia

Jonathan Fernand Jean Legear is a Belgian professional football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He is the manager and technical director RCS Verlaine in the fourth-tier Belgian Division 2.

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