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Thomas Vancaeyezeele (born 27 July 1994) is a
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who plays as a defender for the French Guiana national team.


Career


Youth and college

Vancaeyezeele played for the youth sides of
Stade Malherbe Caen Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, SMC, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy, that competes in the Ligue 2. The club was founded on 17 November 1913 by the merger of ''C ...
of
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. For the 2011–12 season he was promoted to the reserve side, making one appearance in the
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. For the 2013–14 season, he transferred to Hérouvillais of the
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. During the season he made 21 appearances, scoring a single goal. In February 2015, he signed on for a stint with
CD Vitoria Club Deportivo Vitoria is a List of football clubs in Spain, football team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the autonomous community of Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Founded in 1945, its senior side is currently the farm team ...
of Spain's Fifth Division. He made his debut for the club on 23 February against CD El Pilar Marianistas. In 2015, Vancaeyezeele traveled to the
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to play
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for the
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of the
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. Over his two season with the club, he made 41 appearances, scoring five goals. The team won the school's first NCAA Division II Championship during the 2017 season, defeating the
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3–1 in the final. Following the match, Vancaeyezeele was named the
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Player of the Year, in addition to several other accolades.


Semi-professional

In 2016, Vancaeyezeele played club football for the
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of the semi-professional
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. Over the course of the season, he made ten regular season appearances, scoring one goal. For the 2017 season, Vancaeyezeele moved to the
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, also of the PDL. During the season, he made 14 regular season appearances, scoring two goals, and a further three appearances in the playoffs.


Professional

After graduation from the University of Charleston, Vancaeyezeele was invited to participate in the 2018 Major League Soccer Combine. However, he was not selected in the
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, despite being projected as a potential early pick. In March 2018, Vancaeyezeele went on trial with
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of the
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, the second tier of the
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. He made two preseason appearances for the team, including one against league rivals
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in which he set up Romeo Parkes's game-winning goal. On 14 March 2018, he was signed to a one-year contract with a club option for an additional year. He made his professional debut in the opening match of the 2018 season, a 0–0 draw at
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in which he started and played the full 90 minutes. Over the first two matches of the season, Vancaeyezeele maintained the team's highest passing percentage in the offensive half and the team lead in interceptions. Vancaeyezeele scored his first professional goal on 20 April 2018, Pittsburgh's second goal of a 2–2 draw away at
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. He was then named to the USL Team of the Week for the first time for his performance in the match. Vancaeyezeele scored his first
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goal in a 2–1 victory over
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on 16 May 2018. During his first season with the club, he made a team-high 32 starts, scoring two league goals. On 7 December 2018 it was announced that Vancaeyezeele had signed a one-year extension with the team with a club option for an additional year. On 12 December 2020, Vancaeyezeele moved to
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side
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ahead of the 2021 season. On July 8, 2021 he switched to fellow USL Championship club
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. On May 26, 2022, the
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announced that they had acquired Vancaeyezeele from Birmingham Legion for an international slot and an undisclosed fee. He was released by Tampa following their 2022 season.🖉


International career

Vancaeyezeele was called up to by
French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic ...
for the first time in September 2019 for
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matches against
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and
St. Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of ...
. He qualifies to represent the nation through family ties. After French Guiana was awarded a 3–0 victory over Belize when the visitors did not arrive in time for the match, Vancaeyezeele made his debut, starting and playing the full match, in the eventual 2–2 draw with St. Kitts and Nevis.


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Pittsburgh Riverhounds profilePDL profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vancaeyezeele, Thomas Living people 1994 births French Guianan men's footballers French people of French Guianan descent French men's footballers Footballers from Caen Men's association football midfielders University of Charleston alumni Stade Malherbe Caen players CD Vitoria footballers Mississippi Brilla FC players Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC players San Diego Loyal SC players Birmingham Legion FC players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players USL League Two players USL Championship players French Guiana men's international footballers French Guianan expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Black French sportspeople