Laurent Delorge (born 21 July 1979) is a Belgian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

. He formerly served

AA Gent Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent (, English: ''Royal Athletic Association Ghent''), often simply known as Ghent or by their nickname ' ( en, The Buffalos), is a Belgian sports club, based in the city of Ghent, East Flanders. Their football ...

Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, Championship, the second tier of the English footbal ...

Lierse SK Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring (), often simply known as Lierse, was a Belgian professional football club from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse have won four championship titles and two Belgian Cups. Lierse was one of the six ...

RSC Anderlecht ; french: Les Mauves et Blancs) , short name = R.S.C.A. , founded = , ground = Constant Vanden Stock Stadium , capacity = 22,500 , owntitle = Chairman , owner = Wouter Vandenhaute , manager = Brian Riemer ...

ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation f ...

, Ajax and Roda JC Kerkrade.

Career

After scoring five goals in ten appearances in his Jupiler League debut season for

he was transferred to

who at the time were playing in the

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. Delorge signed for Coventry midway through the 1998/99 season, however he didn't make his first appearance for the club until 29 January 2000, when he came on as a substitute in Coventry's defeat to Charlton Athletic in the FA Cup. His next appearance didn't come until 15 September 2001. However, in this game he made an instant impact; coming off the bench to score the winner against Sheffield United with practically his first touch of the game. He fell out with manager Gordon Strachan but was recalled when

Roland Nilsson Nils Lennart Roland Nilsson (born 27 November 1963) is a Swedish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the head coach of Allsvenskan club IFK Göteborg. As a player, Nilsson played 116 games for Sweden, making ...

took over. He ultimately failed in his bid to become a first team regular but in 2001/02 he made 28 starts, scoring 4 goals. When

offered him a contract to return to the Jupiler League in his home country he ended his foreign career straight away and soon became one of their key players. Eventually this led to a transfer to

for the 2005/06 season. At Anderlecht he was fired on 17 February 2006 for alleged 'wrongdoing' with former club Lierse SK in conjunction with the match-fixing investigation in Belgian football. Not much later he signed a 3-year contract deal with Dutch Eredivisie side

. In a disappointing season ADO was unable to remain in the Eredivisie and were relegated to the Eerste Divisie. Delorge however was offered a contract at Ajax and signed a 2-year contract on 10 May 2007. In his first year in Amsterdam he played four matches, but in his second year he did not play once. In the winter of 2009, Roda JC contracted the disappointed Delorge, who became a first team regular at the Eredivisie club before his retirement in July 2013.

Statistics

References

;Sources
Voetbal International website and 2007/2008 presentation magazine

External links

Voetbal International profileAjax Inside Profile
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