Xavier Jacques Mercier (born 25 July 1989) is a French professional
footballer
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who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
RWDM RWDM may refer to:
* Royal White Daring Molenbeek
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. He has previously represented
Lesquin
Lesquin () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Population
Heraldry
Economy
When Flandre Air existed, it had its head office at Lille Airport and in Lesquin. On 30 March 2001 Flandre, Proteus Airlines, and Regional Airlin ...
,
Guingamp
Guingamp (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 6,895 as of 2017, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guin ...
(for whom he made seven appearances in
Ligue 2
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),
Beauvais
Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris.
The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populo ...
,
KV Kortrijk
Koninklijke Voetbalclub Kortrijk (often simply called KV Kortrijk or KVK) is a Belgian professional football club based in Kortrijk, West Flanders. They play in the Belgian First Division, and they achieved their best ranking ever during the 200 ...
,
Cercle Brugge
Cercle Brugge Koninklijke Sportvereniging () is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges. Cercle have played in the Belgian Pro League since the 2003–04 season, having previously spent several years in the Belgian Second Division ...
,
OH Leuven
Oud-Heverlee Leuven (), also called OH Leuven or OHL, is a Belgian football club from the city of Leuven. It was created in 2002 from the merger of three clubs, ''F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee'', whose registration number it inherited, ''D ...
and
Ferencváros
Ferencváros () is the 9th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest IX. kerülete), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
...
.
Career
Ferencváros
On 5 May 2023, he won the
2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
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with
Ferencváros
Ferencváros () is the 9th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest IX. kerülete), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
...
, after
Kecskemét
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Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's thir ...
lost 1–0 to
Honvéd at the
Bozsik Aréna
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on the 30
th matchday.
Career statistics
Honours
Ferencváros
*
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
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:
2022–23
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References
Sources
Xavier Mercierat foot-national.com
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1989 births
Living people
People from Alès
Sportspeople from Gard
French men's footballers
Footballers from Occitania (administrative region)
Men's association football midfielders
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
Belgian Pro League players
Challenger Pro League players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
US Lesquin players
En Avant Guingamp players
AS Beauvais Oise players
US Boulogne players
K.V. Kortrijk players
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
Oud-Heverlee Leuven players
Ferencvárosi TC footballers
R.W.D. Molenbeek (2015) players
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
French expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary