Jean-François Gillet
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 31 May 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Liège, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Standard Liège (on loan from Catania) |
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| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1996 | Standard Liège | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1999 | Standard Liège | 6 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Monza | 37 | (0) |
| 2000–2011 | Bari | 353 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Treviso (loan) | 44 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Bologna | 29 | (0) |
| 2012–2015 | Torino | 49 | (0) |
| 2015– | Catania | 16 | (0) |
| 2015– 2016 | → Mechelen (loan) | 28 | (0) |
| 2016– | → Standard Liège (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1992–1993 | Belgium U15 | 2 | (0) |
| 1995 | Belgium U16 | 3 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Belgium U17 | 6 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | Belgium U18 | 19 | (0) |
| 1996 | Belgium U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 1996 | Belgium U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 1996–2002 | Belgium U21 | 36 | (0) |
| 2009– | Belgium | 9 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 February 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19:07, 8 June 2013 (UTC) |
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Jean-François Gillet (born 31 May 1979) is a Belgian professional goalkeeper who plays for Standard Liège on loan from Italian club Catania, and the Belgium national team.
He began his professional career in the youth system of Standard Liège and was called up to the first team at the age of just 17. In 1996, he made his debut in Belgian First Division and the following season he took to the field on another two occasions.
In the summer of 1999, at the age of twenty, he moved outright to Monza, then in Serie B. As a starter, he disputed 33 games.
After playing four games in August with Monza, in the final days of the transfer market he accepted a move to Bari in Serie A, who paid 5 million lire.
His first season in the top flight, despite 20 appearances and some stand-out performances in goal, was marred by a prosecution for doping. After the match Bari-Reggina on 21 January, in fact, he became the first player in Italy to be indicted for testing positive for Nandrolone and was forced by the sports court to serve a four-month disqualification.
Over the next ten years he played 317 games for Bari in Serie A and Serie B, with the exception of a short loan with Treviso in 2003–04, due to some disagreements with the then coach Marco Tardelli.
On 13 March 2008 he renewed his contract with the Galletti until 2011.
In 2007 Antonio Conte arrived at Bari, and Gillet adapted his role in the team and was employed as a sweeper keeper. The team triumphed in Serie B, returning to the top flight after a seven-year absence.
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