Dries Mertens

About Dries Mertens

After two years with PSV, winger who joined Napoli in 2013. In 2011, he was named to the Belgian national team.

Dries Mertens, nicknamed Ciro, is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for Italian club Napoli and the Belgium national team. Mertens is Napoli's all time top goalscorer. As a youth, Mertens played for Stade Leuven, Anderlecht and Gent, and made his debut on loan to Eendracht Aalst in the Belgian Third Division. In 2006, he moved to Dutch Eerste Divisie club AGOVV Apeldoorn, where he spent three years before a €600,000 move to Utrecht of the Eredivisie. Two years later he and teammate Kevin Strootman were transferred to PSV Eindhoven for a combined fee of €13 million, and won the KNVB Cup and Johan Cruyff Shield in 2012. In 2013, Mertens signed for Napoli for a €9.6 million fee and has since made over 300 appearances for the club. He won the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana in 2014, and was named in the Serie A Team of the Year during the 2016–17 season.

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Trivia

He scored 28 goals in 73 matches for AGOVV from 2007 to 2009.

Dries Mertens before fame

In 2005, he made his professional debut for Gent.

Achievement of Dries Mertens

Between 2007 and 2009, he scored 28 goals in 73 games for AGOVV.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Dries Mertens family life

He began dating Katrin Kerkhofs in 2016.

Associations of Dries Mertens

On the Belgian national team, he and Vincent Kompany became colleagues.

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