Tail Schoonjans

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Tail Schoonjans
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Full name Tail Schoonjans
Date of birth (1986-08-19) 19 August 1986 (age 36)
Place of birth Brussels, Belgium
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1992–2002 Stade Leuven
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2002–2012 OH Leuven 150 (18)
2012Sint-Niklaas (loan) 7 (3)
2012–2014 Sint-Niklaas 41 (4)
2014–2015 Bornem 24 (3)
2015–2017 Grimbergen 13 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 January 2016

Tail Schoonjans (born 19 August 1986) is a retired Belgian professional footballer, who last played for Grimbergen in the Belgian Third Division. [1]

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Career

Schoonjans started his youth career with Stade Leuven, before it merged into OH Leuven in 2002. With OH Leuven, he promoted up two levels from the Belgian Third Division to the Belgian Pro League as the club got promoted in 2005 and 2011. In these ten years, he featured in 150 matches for OH Leuven, scoring 18 goals in the process. During the first half of the 2011-12 season however, he was surpassed by Bjorn Ruytinx and Derick Ogbu, only allowing him to make three substitute appearances, of which one was in the Belgian Cup. He was loaned out for six months to Belgian Second Division team Sint-Niklaas during the winter 2011–12 transfer window, but released upon return. He subsequently signed a full contract with Sint-Niklaas.

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