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Jinty Caenepeel (born 18 July 1996) is a Belgian former professional
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who played as a winger.


Club career


Gent

Caenepeel played youth football at VG Oostende,
KV Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende, also called KV Oostende () or KVO, was a Belgian professional football club based in Ostend, West Flanders. The team was founded in 1904 as ''VG Oostende'' and had ''matricule'' number 31. The club was declare ...
,
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and
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. In the summer of 2013, he had an offer to join the
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academy, but Gent refused the offer. Caenepeel, who preferred to play as a
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, was praised as a youth player for his speed, control and solid shot, although his combination game was initially seen as substandard and given his wing position, his crosses and passes were areas in which he could improve. He made his
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debut on 19 October 2013 in the 11th round of the 2013–14 season against
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replacing
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after 79 minutes in a 2–2 draw.


Cercle Brugge (loan)

As Caenepeel struggled to gain playing time at Gent, he was sent on a six-month loan to Cercle Brugge in January 2015. On his official debut on 17 January 2015, he also scored his first goal in the Jupiler Pro League against
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. Despite this, he was unable to prevent the relegation of Cercle Brugge at the end of the season. After his loan period, his contract with Gent was terminated by mutual agreement.


Eindhoven

In August 2015, Caenepeel signed a three-year contract with
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, the runner-up of the previous season in the Dutch second-tier
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. In his debut season, he immediately scored fifteen goals and made seven assists. In the third period of the 2015–16 season he was awarded the Bronze Bull for best player. After his debut season, he had interest from the
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club
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. Caenepeel ultimately did not leave, partly because Eindhoven demanded at least half a million euros. In his second season, the arrival of Belgian compatriots Yanni De Vriendt and
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added to the Belgian core of Eindhoven, which already included Dario Van den Buijs, Sebastiaan De Wilde, Maxime Gunst,
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,
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,
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and
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, beside Caenepeel. That season, Caenepeel scored two goals – both in the 6–2 derby win over
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– and recorded eight assists in the Eerste Divisie.


Excelsior

In July 2017, Caenepeel signed with
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club
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. There, he was reunited with head coach
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, who had coached him his first season in Eindhoven. Due to off-the-field problems, which included a
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after an accident and
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of
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, Caenepeel was never able to fully emerge as a key player at Excelsior.


Knokke

On 2 September 2019, Belgian club
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confirmed, that Caenpeel had joined the club on a contract until the summer 2021.TRANSFERNIEUWS: Jinty Caenepeel tekent voor 2 seizoenen bij RKFC
rkfc.be, 2 September 2019
In the 2019–20 season, he made six league appearances in the
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, in which he scored once. In the 2020–21 season, in which Knokke only played five official games due to the
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suspending league activities, Caenepeel did not play once. During this period, Caenepeel lost his motivation to play football, after which he announced his retirement from the game in the summer of 2021.


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Player profile
- FC Eindhoven * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Caenepeel, Jinty 1996 births Living people Footballers from Ostend Belgian men's footballers K.A.A. Gent players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players FC Eindhoven players Excelsior Rotterdam players Belgian Pro League players Eerste Divisie players Eredivisie players Men's association football wingers Belgium men's youth international footballers Belgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands 21st-century Belgian sportsmen