Marc Wilmots
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Marc Robert Wilmots | ||
| Date of birth | 22 February 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Dongelberg, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Ivory Coast (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1985 | CS Jodoigne | ||
| 1985–1987 | Sint-Truiden | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1988 | Sint-Truiden | 30 | (9) |
| 1988–1991 | Mechelen | 87 | (22) |
| 1991–1996 | Standard Liège | 136 | (67) |
| 1996–2000 | Schalke 04 | 104 | (21) |
| 2000–2001 | Bordeaux | 30 | (8) |
| 2001–2003 | Schalke 04 | 34 | (6) |
| Total | 421 | (133) | |
| National team | |||
| 1986–1987 | Belgium U19 | 9 | (3) |
| 1987–1989 | Belgium U21 | 9 | (6) |
| 1990–2002 | Belgium | 70 | (28) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2003 | Schalke 04 (interim) | ||
| 2004–2005 | Sint-Truiden | ||
| 2009–2012 | Belgium (assistant) | ||
| 2012–2016 | Belgium | ||
| 2017– | Ivory Coast | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Marc Robert Wilmots (born 22 February 1969) is a Belgian international former footballer and the current manager of the Ivory Coast. With five goals, he is Belgium's all-time top scorer at the FIFA World Cup. During his club career as attacking midfielder, he won trophies with KV Mechelen, Standard Liège and Schalke 04.
He has also been a politician, having sat in the Senate for two years for the Mouvement Réformateur party.
In his club career, which started in 1987, Wilmots played for Sint-Truiden, Mechelen, Standard Liège, Schalke 04, and Bordeaux. At Schalke, he helped them to the 1997 UEFA Cup Final. His goal in the first leg was cancelled out by Internazionale in the second leg, but Schalke went on to win the game on penalties, with Wilmots scoring the decisive goal. He retired in 2003, after his second stint with Schalke. During his time with Schalke, the fans there gave him the affectionate nickname "Das Kampfschwein" (The War Pig), which has been picked up by some English language journalists. In Belgium he is known under the nickname the Bull of Dongelberg, an allusion to his birthplace.
For Belgium, Wilmots scored 28 goals in 70 caps, his first coming in May 1990. He went to four World Cups, playing in three. After being an unused substitute in 1990, he played 54 minutes in 1994 without scoring, but scored two goals in 1998 and three in 2002, making him Belgium's leading goal scorer in World Cup history. He also scored a goal against Brazil in the last 16 match of the 2002 World Cup which was disallowed because of a "phantom foul" on Roque Júnior. According to Wilmots, the referee Peter Prendergast apologized for the error to him at half time. Wilmots was named as one of the seven reserves in the 2002 World Cup All-Star Team.
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