Kevin De Bruyne Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Kevin De Bruyne Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Kevin De Bruyne (born June 28, 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world and of his generation. Pundits have often described him as a ‘complete footballer’.

De Bruyne started his career at Genk, where he was a regular when they won the 2010-11 Belgian Pro League. In 2012, he joined English club Chelsea, where he was used sparingly and then loaned to Werder Bremen. He signed with Wolfsburg for £18million in 2014, where he established himself as one of the best performers in the Bundesliga and was integral to the club’s 2014-15 DFB-Pokal victory.

De Bruyne made his international debut in 2010, and has since won over 90 caps and scored 25 goals for Belgium. He was a member of the Belgian squads that reached the quarter-finals at both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016. He represented Belgium at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where the Belgium won the third-place play-off against England, and was named to the FIFA World Cup Dream Team.

De Bruyne’s mother is Belgian, born in Burundi and also lived in Ivory Coast. Drongen, his hometown, is a sub-municipality of the city of Ghent, in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Besides Dutch, his mother tongue, De Bruyne also speaks French, English and German. Since 2014, De Bruyne has been in a relationship with Michèle Lacroix. The couple married in June 2017 and have three children together.

His autobiography, titled Keep It Simple, was published by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts in October 2014, following an incident between De Bruyne and fellow countryman Thibaut Courtois, in which De Bruyne’s girlfriend left him for Courtois. De Bruyne wrote in his autobiography: “Although I still cannot believe what Courtois has done, we continue to work together professionally.”

De Bruyne was an ambassador for the 2014 Special Olympics, which took place in Antwerp, and was involved in a controversial advertising campaign, via his personal Instagram account. Employing the tagline (in Dutch): “Would you still be my fan if I looked like this?”, De Bruyne was depicted looking like someone with Down syndrome.

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