Mike Trésor Ndayishimiye (born 28 May 1999), commonly known as Mike Tresor, is a Belgian professional

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who plays as an

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for club

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. The 2022–23 Belgian Pro League Footballer of the Year, Trésor amassed the most assists in a single season ever in the Belgian top flight (24), prompting his Belgian national team debut.

Club career

Having been a youth team player at

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, Trésor made his

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debut for

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on 21 September 2018 in a game against

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, as a 78th-minute substitute for Jonathan Okita. On 2 September 2019, he joined Willem II in the top-tier

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on loan for the 2019–20 season. On 30 October, Ndayishimiye scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win against

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in the

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of the

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Genk

Trésor moved to Belgian Cup holders Racing Genk in July 2021. After a disappointing campaign where defensive frailty saw Cup-winning coach

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dismissed mid-season, and

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only able to guide Genk to the 2022 Belgian Pro League's European play-offs, Trésor's form surged under the tenureship of new coach

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. Genk lost their opening league game of the 2022–23 season to champions Club Brugge, before going on to win 15 of their next 16 league games - drawing the other one for an unbeaten run of 16 - to go ten points clear of second-placed

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by Christmas 2022, still top of the table by Easter 2023. Trésor had hit double-figures in assists for the 2022–23 season by mid-October as part of Genk's impressive winning run, making him the highest-assist maker in the top-10 ranked European leagues. Despite this, Trésor was not named by Belgium national team coach Roberto Martinez in the preliminary Belgian squad of 55 ahead of the

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, and did not make the plane for Qatar. A continuation in strong form saw big calls for Trésor and team-mate Bryan Heynen to be capped by new national team coach Domenico Tedesco for his first games in charge against

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and

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in March 2023, but neither player was chosen. Tresor did make the next squad in June, however, for his international debut for Belgium. With Genk being pipped for the 2022–23 Belgian Pro League due to a stoppage-time equaliser against them by Royal Antwerp's

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, Tresor produced 24 assists across the 2022–23 season, a new Belgian Pro League record, breaking the previous mark of 22 from

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set in 1999. Tresor was voted Belgian Footballer of the Year at the Pro League Awards, and also won the 2023

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for best player of African extraction in the league, holding off Gent's Gift Orban, Victor Boniface of Union Saint-Gilloise and Tresor's own Genk team-mates Joseph Paintsil and Bilal El Khannouss to both awards.

Burnley

On 1 September 2023, Burnley signed Trésor on a season-long loan deal. On 21 May 2024, Burnley said the loan had been made permanent.

International career

In June 2023 he was called up to the senior

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squad for the

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matches against

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and

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on 17 and 20 June 2023 respectively.

Personal life

Trésor was born in Belgium to a Burundian father and a Rwandan mother. His father, Freddy Ndayishimiye, is a former

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international. He grew up in the Belgian capital,

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Career statistics

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International

Honours

Individual *

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top assist provider: 2022–23

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ndayishimiye, Mike Tresor 1999 births Living people Belgian people of Burundian descent Black Belgian sportspeople 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Sportspeople from Halle, Belgium Footballers from Flemish Brabant Belgian men's footballers Men's association football forwards NEC Nijmegen players Willem II Tilburg players K.R.C. Genk players Burnley F.C. players Eerste Divisie players Eredivisie players Belgian Pro League players Premier League players Belgium men's youth international footballers Belgium men's under-21 international footballers Belgium men's international footballers Belgian expatriate men's footballers Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in England