Wesley Sonck

Infobox Football biography
playername = Wesley Sonck


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1978|8|9
cityofbirth = Ninove
countryofbirth = Belgium
height = height|m=1.74
currentclub = Club Brugge
position = Striker
clubnumber = 10
years = 1996-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2003
2003-2004
2005-2007
2007-
clubs = R.W.D. Molenbeek
Germinal Ekeren
Germinal Beerschot
RC Genk
Ajax
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Club Brugge
caps(goals) = 33 (11)
32 0(7)
29 (11)
93 (67)
28 (10)
28 0(6)
21 0(6)
nationalyears = 2002-
nationalteam = Belgium
nationalcaps(goals) = 44 (21)
pcupdate = September 10, 2008
ntupdate = September 14, 2008

Wesley Sonck (born August 9 1978 in Ninove) is a Belgian football striker playing for Club Brugge. Before, he played for K.R.C. Genk in Jupiler League from where he joined AFC Ajax in 2003 for about five million Euro. He finished topscorer of Belgian Jupiler League in 2002 (30 goals) and in 2003 (22 goals, as much as Cédric Roussel). He also plays for the Belgium national football team.

His game with Borussia Mönchengladbach of the German Bundesliga was hampered by injuries. Two months after joining the club on loan from AFC Ajax, where he could not make his peace with manager Ronald Koeman, Sonck sustained a kidney disease and did not return to action before the end of 2004-2005. Mönchengladbach then signed him on a permanent contract, a deal initially arranged already at the start of his loan. In the summer of 2005 Sonck had three of his ribs broken after a horror tackle by Wilfred Bouma in a goalless, meaningless friendly between Borussia Mönchengladbach & PSV Eindhoven. Sonck took six months to recover, marking his return to competitive football with a goal in a 3-1 defeat by Bayern Munich. He scored three more in 13 further Bundesliga games for Mönchengladbach until he was forced out for three months with an injury in the hollow of his knee at the start of the season of 2006-2007. He left Gladbach at the end of the season, joining Club Brugge on a year long loan deal while Borussia Mönchengladbach play in the second tier of the Bundesliga.