Dries Mertens is an international Belgium professional footballer. He was born on 6 May 1987, now his age is 36 years old (as of 2023), and his birthplace Leuven, Belgium. Mertens has played in the Gent, AGOVV, Utrecht, PSV and Napoli club and Belgium national football team. Actually, his playing position is forward.
In fact, Mertens is an important footballer of the Napoli team. His height is 5 feet 7 inches. At present, Belgium football team international World ranking is 6 numbers.
Dries Mertens height, biography, wife, net worth, age and football career
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Dries club and international career
Footballer Mertens started his first career in Gent team in 2005-07. And he joined the AGOVV football club in 2007. He has played in the AGOVV club up to 2009 and scored 28 goals in 73 matches.
In March 2009, he agreed to a contract with AGOVV and officially Utrecht team completed the starting of Mertens at the start of the 2009-10 Eredivisie for a fee of 600,000.
Then he was transferred to PSV team in 2011 up to 2013. His transfer fee of 13 million that is effective for the team. Jurgen Locadia and Mertens, who was making his Eredivisie debut, both scored hat-tricks as PSV fails VVV-Venlo 6-0 on 30 September 2012.
Transfer to Napoli and current teams
He agreed and joined the Napoli football team on 16 June 2013. Mertens became Rafael Benitez’s first starting as new Napoli manager later a transferred fee of 9.5 million. He scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 series a win over Cagliari before taking on 11 December 2016.
FIFA 18 and international career
Footballer Mertens has played in the Belgium Under-17 team in 2004 and played up to 2010. He received his first senior team squad call-up by the coach Georges Leekens in 2010. After, he was named in Marc Wilmots 23-man squad by the Belgium team FIFA World Cup 2018 in Brazil. He attended in the UEFA Euro 2016 team and he scored in a 3-1 victory over Israel which ensured that Belgium.
Besides, he scored five goals in Belgium team FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification, accepting two in an 8-1 victory against Estonia. And he was selected to play in the 23-man squad at the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia.
Mertens honors and news
Individually he was honored to play Belgian Third Division player of the season in 2006, Eerste Divisie Golden Bull in 2008, Di Tommaso Trophy in 2010, Serie A Team of the year in 2016-17 and more. All football sports was off for covid-19 from February 2020 to July 2020.
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