Killian Sardella

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Killian Sardella
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-05-02) 2 May 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth Duffel, Belgium
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
 Anderlecht
Number 54
Youth career
0000–2019 Anderlecht
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019– Anderlecht 87 (1)
International career‡
2017 Belgium U15 5 (0)
2017 Belgium U16 4 (0)
2017–2019 Belgium U17 22 (0)
2020 Belgium U19 1 (0)
2019– Belgium U21 13 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:03, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Killian Sardella (born 2 May 2002) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Anderlecht in the Belgian First Division A.

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Career

Sardella went through the youth system at KVK Wemmel and FC Brussels before moving to RSC Anderlecht. At FC Brussels he played together with Anouar Ait El Hadj, who he would later play alongside in the Anderlecht first team. In the summer of 2019, Mauves coach Vincent Kompany transferred him to the Anderlecht first team, with Sardella making his debut in the Brussels side's third league game of the 2019-20 season in a 0-0 draw against KV Mechelen as a starter. Sardella played the entire match. After his first season with the first team, in which he played 20 matches in all competitions, Anderlecht extended his contract until 2025.

In his second season, he started eight games in a row from mid-December to late January, at the expense of more experienced players such as Bohdan Mykhaylychenko and Michael Murillo. Coach Vincent Kompany played Sardella, who played as a controlling midfielder in the youth team and later as a central defender, mainly as a wing defender that season. He was only posted in the centre of defence again in his last three games of the season.

In the 2021/22 season, Sardella, just like the season before, made a mistake on the opening match day: against Union Saint-Gilloise, he misjudged a cross-field pass from Jonas Bager to Loïc Lapoussin, allowing the latter to offer Deniz Undav the opening goal. Sardella was then taken to task by (part of) the Anderlecht crowd and was substituted by Michael Murillo during half-time. Sardella was given two more starting places against KF Laçi in the UEFA Europa Conference League shortly afterwards, but in the league he had to wait a while for another chance. On 30 March 2024, Sardella scored for the first time in his career in the top flight for the only goal in a 1-0 win over defending champions Royal Antwerp in the title play-offs. Anderlecht would finish the season in third, as they had also done in 2020-21.

International football

Sardella was Belgium captain for the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship held in Ireland. Belgium were knocked out at the quarter-finals stage by the Netherlands 3-0 in Bray.

Personal life

Sardella was born in Belgium to an Italian father and Cameroonian mother. [2]

Career statistics

As of match played 28 June 2024 [3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [lower-alpha 1] EuropeOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Anderlecht 2019–20 Belgian First Division A 18020——200
2020-21 14010—2 [lower-alpha 2] 0170
2021-22 50102 [lower-alpha 3] 0—80
2022–23 Belgian Pro League 160—6 [lower-alpha 3] 0—220
2023-24 34120——361
Career total8716080201031
  1. ↑ Includes the Belgian Cup
  2. ↑ Appearances in the Jupiler Pro League Championship Group
  3. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

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References

  1. ↑ "Killian Sardella". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Anderlecht Online - Killian Sardella le défenseur qui monte jusqu'au noyau A -présentation (06 août 18)". www.anderlecht-online.be.
  3. ↑ "K. Sardella: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 25 February 2020.


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