nationalcaps birth_date currentclub pcupdate years caps goals name fullname ntupdate birth_place nationalteam height clubnumber nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position article_title
0 9 june 1980 en paralimni 2010-05-01 2001 2003-2004 2004-2009 2008-2009 2009 - 1 11 33 105 33 28 0 0 3 0 0 2 jimmy de wulf jimmy de wulf 2007-07-05 blankenberge , belgium belgium 1.89 0 14 0 sv blankenberge club brugge sv → kv oostende en paralimni blankenberge club brugge → cercle brugge cercle brugge defender jimmy de wulf

jimmy de wulf

jimmy de wulf -lrb- born 9 june 1980 in blankenberge -rrb- is a belgian professional football player .
de wulf plays as a central defender .
de wulf 's career took off when belgian top teams club brugge and standard liège discovered him at the age of 12 , playing for his local team sv blankenberge .
given the fact that liège was lying much further away from blankenberge than bruges , de wulf chose to join club .
during his youth , de wulf has been selected many times to play for the national team .
when de wulf reached the age of 18 , he was offered a contract for 5-year .
despite the promising prospects , de wulf did not play much for club brugge under the coaching of trond sollied , and he was loaned for six months to tromsø il .
at the end of his loan , tromsø wanted to buy de wulf , but club halted his transfer .
de wulf , tired of not playing for the first team , decided to put pressure on the management .
eventually , de wulf was loaned for one season to cercle brugge , thanks to the good relations between the chairmen of both teams .
when the season ended , de wulf was definitively transferred to cercle for a fair price .
a minority of cercle brugge fans responded negatively to this transfer .
the point of discussion was that de wulf probably was a fan of club brugge , considering his choice to play for the rivals of cercle brugge in his youth .
these rumours faded out thanks to de wulf 's great team spirit on the pitch .
de wulf used to be vice-captain of the team , but in july 2007 , the new cercle brugge manager glen de boeck named de wulf as captain instead of denis viane .
however , due to denis viane and anthony portier proving to be cercle 's solid back bone in the 2007-08 season , de wulf 's chances to play were rather limited .
at the end of the season , the cercle board told de wulf they would not start doing difficult if he found himself a new team .
sv roeselare , kv kortrijk , tromsø il and fc brussels are said to be interested .
eventually , de wulf was loaned by kv oostende for one season .
his contract with cercle ended in june 2009 and was not renewed .
