Gilles De Bilde
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gilles De Bilde | ||
| Date of birth | 9 June 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Zellik, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1995 | Eendracht Aalst | 86 | (40) |
| 1995–1997 | Anderlecht | 46 | (22) |
| 1997–1999 | PSV | 49 | (24) |
| 1999–2001 | Sheffield Wednesday | 59 | (13) |
| 2000–2001 | → Aston Villa (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2001–2003 | Anderlecht | 44 | (14) |
| 2003–2004 | Lierse | 15 | (1) |
| 2005–2007 | Willebroek-Meerhof | ? | (?) |
| National team | |||
| 1994–2000 | Belgium | 25 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gilles De Bilde (born 9 June 1971) is a retired Belgian footballer who played as a striker. He played club football for Eendracht Aalst, Anderlecht, PSV, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Lierse and Willebroek-Meerhof. He was capped by Belgium at international level.
At Eendracht Aalst, he won the 1994 Belgian Player of the Year and scored 21 goals in 33 league games during the 1994–95 season. He joined Anderlecht in the summer of 1995 and managed a further 22 goals in 46 Belgian First Division matches. In a match between Anderlecht and Aalst in December 1996, he punched Krist Porte in the face, which broke his nose and injured his eye. Previously, De Bilde received a suspended two-year prison sentence in 1992 for head-butting two boy scout leaders and, four months before the Porte incident, he head-butted one nurse and punched another when he was denied access to a hospital room his father was in, having suffered a brain haemorrhage.Johan Boskamp, Anderlecht's head coach, suggested that De Bilde should see a psychiatrist.
In January 1997, De Bilde was transferred to Dutch side PSV for £3m. During his time in Eindhoven, he scored 24 goals in 49 Eredivisie matches. His seven goals in eight league matches during the second half of the 1996–97 season helped PSV become Dutch champions. He joined Sheffield Wednesday in August 1999 and scored ten league goals in his first season with the club, but was unable to prevent them from being relegated from the Premier League. In October 2000, he joined Aston Villa on loan for three months. He made four league appearances for the club, without scoring, and returned to Sheffield Wednesday in January 2001, where he stayed for the remainder of the season after a number of potential transfers failed to materialise. He returned to Anderlecht in July 2001 on a free transfer, having signed a three-year contract. Two years later, De Bilde joined Lierse, where he finished his professional career at the end of the 2003–04 season. He played for Willebroek-Meerhof of the Belgian Promotion between 2005 and 2007. De Bilde – who campaigned for a European ban on cat and dog fur – was fined by the club in 2006 for missing a match to mourn the death of one of his dogs.
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