Frédéric Herpoel

Frédéric Herpoel
Personal information
Full name	Frédéric Herpoel
Date of birth	16 August 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth	Mons, Belgium
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1988–1993	Anderlecht
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993–1997	Anderlecht
1997–2007	Gent
2007–2010	Mons
Total
International career
1994–1995	Belgium U-21
1999–2004	Belgium
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frédéric Herpoel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfreːdərɪk ˈɦɛrpul]; born 16 August 1974) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Career

Herpoel was born in Mons. At the age of 7 he began to play for S.C. Havré and then moved to Anderlecht in 1988 where he played in the youth team. Between 1993 (his arrival in the senior squad) and 1997, Herpoel only played four Jupiler League games for the Brussels side.

Herpoel signed for Gent in 1997 and played regularly for them for over a decade, before joining Mons. Herpoel was selected 39 times for Belgium but he gathered only seven caps. He was in the team for the Euro 2000 as third goalie and the 2002 World Cup as second goalie. He was the second choice after Geert De Vlieger when Robert Waseige was the national team manager, and later after Silvio Proto when Aimé Anthuenis coached the national team, whereupon he decided to quit the national team in 2005, disappointed not to be chosen as the first choice goalkeeper.