
Romelu Lukaku
Football player
Romelu Menama Lukaku is a Belgian footballer of Congolese descent, who plays as a striker for Premier League club West Bromwich Albion on loan from Chelsea, and the Belgium national team. Wikipedia
Born: May 13, 1993 (age 20), Antwerp
Weight: 100 kg
Height: 1.90 m
Parents: Roger Lukaku
Salary: 2.4 million EUR (2011)
Siblings: Jordan Lukaku
Early career
Lukaku joined his local team Rupel Boom at the age of five.[3] After four seasons at Rupel Boom, Lukaku was discovered by scouts of Lierse SK, a Belgian Pro League team with an established youth academy. He played for Lierse from 2004 until 2006,[3] scoring 121 goals in 68 games.[4] After Lierse were relegated from the Belgian Pro League, Anderlecht bought no less than 13 youth players from Lierse in the 2006 mid-season, one of which was Lukaku. He played three more years as a youth player with Anderlecht, scoring 131 goals in 93 games.
International career
Lukaku was a member of the Belgium under-21 team and scored a goal on his debut against Slovenia.[25] On 24 February 2010, Lukaku was named for the first time in the Belgium squad for the friendly against Croatia.[26] On 17 November 2010, he scored his first two international goals in the friendly match against Russia.[27]
Lukaku scored his first goal in almost two years for the national team, netting the winner in a 4-2 friendly victory over rivals the Netherlands on 15 August 2012.[28]
Personal life
Lukaku was born in Antwerp,[29] a city in northern Belgium. His father, Roger Lukaku,[30] played professional football and was capped at international level by Zaire.[31] He has a younger brother named Jordan, who has progressed through the youth academy at Anderlecht.[30] Lukaku was the subject of an acclaimed television documentary series called De School Van Lukaku (Lukaku's School) shown on the Dutch-speaking Eén network. The reality show followed the teenage Lukaku and his classmates during the course of a year at the Saint-Guidon Institute, a school in Brussels, where the footballer was based while with the Anderlecht youth team..”[33]
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