Miguel Van Damme Goalkeeper Career Stats
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Year
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Matches
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Goals
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Assists
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 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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2019
|
2
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0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
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Year
|
Matches
|
Goals
|
Assists
|
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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2018-19
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1
|
0
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0
|
0
|
0
|
|
2014-15
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Who was Miguel Van Damme?
Miguel Van Damme was a goalkeeper for Cercle Brugge in the Belgian professional football league. He was a member of the Cercle young team.
Van Damme made his professional debut in the Jupiler Pro League on April 5, 2014. In a 1–0 home loss against K.V. Mechelen, he played the entire game.
Van Damme was diagnosed with leukemia in June 2016, during a regular check-up prior to the 2016–17 season.
His disease had gone into remission after a year, and he had signed a new contract with Cercle until June 2019.
He recovered and, although continuing to require daily medication, was able to play in the 2017–18 Belgian Cup against Genk on September 20, 2017.
Van Damme’s leukemia relapsed in January 2020, and he was told his chances of survival were slim.
Despite this, he received immunotherapy and, on June 16, 2020, signed a new one-year contract with Cercle. He relapsed on October 18, 2021, and is now fighting leukemia for the fifth time in five years.
Kyana Dobbelaere was Van Damme’s wife, and the couple had one kid, born in 2021.
Van Damme died on March 29, 2022, at the age of 28, after a long battle with leukemia.
