Timothy Castagne ( yield 5 December 1995 ) is a belgian professional football player who plays as a right-back or left-back for Premier League club Leicester City and the belgian national team. [ 3 ] Castagne began his senior career with Genk after graduated from the club ‘s young academy and moved to Leicester City in 2020 .
Club career [edit ]
early career [edit ]
Born in Arlon, Belgian Luxembourg, Castagne began playing football for local clubs US Waltzing and Lorrain Arlon before moving to the young academy of Virton, the largest club in the state. [ 4 ] He practised with the young teams of Standard Liège after going to a boarding school in the sphere, but continued to play matches at Virton during the weekend. [ 5 ]
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Genk [edit ]
In 2011, Castagne moved to Genk, after Standard decided not to recruit him permanently. [ 6 ] In June 2013, he signed a master condense for three years at Genk. In January 2014, then Genk coach Mario Been included him in training camp with the first team after leaving a estimable impression, which meant that he was definitively included in the first team in the second half of the season. [ 7 ] He made his belgian Pro League debut under new head coach Alex McLeish on 14 September 2014 as a starter against Club Brugge. [ 8 ] On 2 May 2015, Castagne scored his first elder goal in a 7–1 home succeed. [ 9 ]
Atalanta [edit ]
In July 2017, he joined Serie A club Atalanta in a €6 million deal, [ 10 ] after Andrea Conti had left Atalanta for Milan. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] He scored his first goal for the Bergamo team on 2 January 2018, in Coppa Italia win over Napoli. [ 13 ] After a first season of adaptation, [ 14 ] his play improved in the first half of the second temper, [ 15 ] and on 27 August 2018, he scored his foremost goal in the Serie A in a 3–3 draw against Roma. [ 16 ] Alternating with Hans Hateboer on the correctly wing-back, he scored 4 goals in the league overall ; the others came in the second leg against Roma, [ 17 ] and in two important end-of-season victories against Lazio ( 1–3 ), [ 18 ] and Genoa ( 2–1 ). [ 19 ] The follow class he continued to alternate with Hateboer, scoring two goals in all competitions : on 22 September 2019, he scored the equalising finish in the 95th moment against Fiorentina in a 2–2 draw, [ 20 ] and the other in the UEFA Champions League in which he scored the first goal in a 0–3 succeed against Shakhtar Donetsk which allowed the Nerazzurri to advance to the round of 16. [ 21 ] During three years at Atalanta, Castagne made 96 appearances and scored 8 goals in all competitions. [ 3 ] [ 22 ] His farewell was motivated by a unmanageable kinship with the coach Gian Piero Gasperini. [ 23 ]
Leicester City [edit ]
On 3 September 2020, Castagne completed a move to Premier League club Leicester City on a 5-year deal. [ 24 ] On 13 September 2020, he scored his first goal for Leicester City in a 3–0 win over West Bromwich Albion ; hence, he became the fifth Belgian player to score on his Premier League debut, after Luc Nilis, Thomas Vermaelen, Christian Benteke and Leandro Trossard. [ 25 ]
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International career [edit ]
Castagne made his Belgium national football team debut on 7 September 2018 in a friendly against Scotland, as a starter. [ 26 ] On 22 March 2019, he provided an aid for his now Leicester team checkmate Youri Tielemans in a 3–1 gain against Russia in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers. On 12 June 2021, in the twenty-fifth hour of Belgium ‘s possibility plot of the UEFA Euro 2020 against Russia, he collided neck and neck with Daler Kuzyayev. Both had to be substituted. Castagne suffered a double eye-socket fracture and had to leave the tournament. [ 27 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
- As of match played 7 November 2021[3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
Season
League
National Cup[a]
League Cup
Europe
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Genk
2013–14
Belgian Pro League
0
0
0
0
—
0
0
0
0
2014–15
Belgian Pro League
27
1
1
0
—
—
28
1
2015–16
Belgian Pro League
21
0
1
0
—
—
22
0
2016–17
Belgian Pro League
32
0
5
0
—
12[b]
2
49
2
Total
80
1
7
0
—
12
2
99
3
Atalanta
2017–18
Serie A
20
0
3
1
—
3[b]
0
26
1
2018–19
Serie A
28
4
5
1
—
4[b]
0
37
5
2019–20
Serie A
27
1
0
0
—
6[c]
1
33
2
Total
75
5
8
2
—
13
1
96
8
Leicester City
2020–21
Premier League
27
2
5
0
0
0
2[b]
0
34
2
2021–22
Premier League
9
0
0
0
0
0
3[b]
0
12
0
Total
36
2
5
0
0
0
5
0
46
2
Career total
191
8
20
2
0
0
30
3
241
13
International [edit ]
- As of match played 16 November 2021[28]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
Belgium
2018
2
0
2019
5
2
2020
4
0
2021
10
0
Total
21
2
- Scores and results list Belgium’s goal tally first.[28]
Honours [edit ]
Leicester City
References [edit ]
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