Who Is Super Eagle Cyriel Dessers?

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After having spent one season with NAC Breda, two with FC Utrecht and one with Heracles, Cyriel Dessers returned to Belgium to join Racing Genk this

summer. As the Dutch first division was cancelled early on because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 25-year-old was crowned top scorer at the end of April, together with Feyenoord player Steven Berghuis. Both players scored 15 goals during the season.January transfer window

Born in Belgium to a Belgian father and Nigerian mother, in December 2019 he decided to represent Nigeria at international level. On 4 March, 2020, Dessers was called up by the Nigerian national football team head coach Gernot Rohr as part of the team players invited for the African Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures against the Sierra leone National football team. But the striker only made his debut for Nigeria in a friendly 1-1 tie with Tunisia on 13th October 2020.

Cyriel Dessers can be considered a late bloomer and it didn’t look like he would one day be a professional football player as he was still playing in the 4th division when he was 16 years old. Only when he went to Leuven to study law, he joined first division team Oud-Heverlee Leuven and made his debut in the starting eleven in 2014.

 

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