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Jimmy De Wulf (born 9 June 1980) is a Belgian professional
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coach and a former player who is coach with
Cercle Brugge Cercle Brugge Koninklijke Sportvereniging () is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges. They compete in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of Belgian football. Their matricule number is 12. The club plays home games at the 29 ...
. De Wulf played as a
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.


Career


Club career

De Wulf's career took off when Belgian top teams
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and
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discovered him at the age of 12, playing for his local team SV Blankenberge. Given the fact that
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was lying much further away from
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than
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, De Wulf chose to join Club. During his youth, De Wulf has been selected many times to play for the national team. When De Wulf reached the age of 18, he was offered a contract for 5-year. Despite the promising prospects, De Wulf did not play much for Club Brugge under the coaching of Trond Sollied, and he was loaned for six months to
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. At the end of his loan, Tromsø wanted to buy De Wulf, but Club halted his transfer. De Wulf, tired of not playing for the first team, decided to put pressure on the management. Eventually, De Wulf was loaned for one season to
Cercle Brugge Cercle Brugge Koninklijke Sportvereniging () is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges. They compete in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of Belgian football. Their matricule number is 12. The club plays home games at the 29 ...
, thanks to the good relations between the chairmen of both teams. When the season ended, De Wulf was definitively transferred to Cercle for a fair price. A minority of Cercle Brugge fans responded negatively to this transfer. The point of discussion was that De Wulf probably was a fan of
Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...
, considering his choice to play for the rivals of
Cercle Brugge Cercle Brugge Koninklijke Sportvereniging () is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges. They compete in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of Belgian football. Their matricule number is 12. The club plays home games at the 29 ...
in his youth. These rumours faded out thanks to De Wulf's great team spirit on the pitch. De Wulf used to be
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of the team, but in July 2007, the new Cercle Brugge manager Glen De Boeck named De Wulf as
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instead of Denis Viane. However, due to Denis Viane and Anthony Portier proving to be Cercle's solid back bone in the 2007–08 season, De Wulf's chances to play were rather limited. At the end of the season, the Cercle board told De Wulf they would not start doing difficult if he found himself a new team. SV Roeselare,
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,
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and
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are said to be interested. Eventually, De Wulf was loaned by
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for one season. His contract with Cercle ended in June 2009 and was not renewed.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Wulf, Jimmy 1980 births Living people Belgian men's footballers Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players Club Brugge KV players Tromsø IL players K.V. Oostende players Enosis Neon Paralimni FC players Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players Eliteserien players Cypriot First Division players Belgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Men's association football defenders People from Blankenberge Footballers from West Flanders Belgian football managers Cercle Brugge K.S.V. managers 21st-century Belgian sportsmen