Personal information :Full name : Marouane Fellaini-Bakkioui
Date of birth : 22 November 1987
Place of birth : Etterbeek, Belgium
Height : 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Everton
Number : 25
Youth career :
1994–1997 Anderlecht
1997–2000 Mons
2000–2002 R. Francs Borains
2002–2004 Sporting Charleroi
2004–2006 Standard Liège
Senior career :
2006–2008 Standard Liège
2008– Everton
National team :
2007– Belgium
Club career
Early career
Born within Etterbeek, Brussels, Fellaini began performing football at the age of seven for Anderlecht. In his former season at Anderlecht's Academy, he scored 26 goals and within his second he scored 37. He was at the club's academy until the age of ten when he attended Mons. Three years afterwards, he attended R. Francs Borains ahead of deserting the club when he signed for Sporting Charleroi. At the age of 17, he signed his former permanent contract with Standard Liège. Between 2006 and 2008, he made 84 impressions for the club, scoring 11 times. He is known for his heading proficiency and stamina, which made him one of the greatest box-to-box midfielders within the Belgian First Division and resulted within him successful the Ebony Shoe within 2008, an honor granted towards the greatest musician of the season of African descent.
Everton
After denied breakthroughs from Manchester United and consecutive reported interest from Aston Villa, Real Madrid, Tottenham and Bayern Munich, Fellaini signed for Everton within September 2008 onto a five year import from Standard Liège for an initial shift fee of £15 million (a file for a Belgian musician and a club file for Everton). He made his Everton debut within a 3–2 away victory at Stoke City onto 14 September 2008, and scored his former goal for the team against Newcastle United within a 2–2 house draw onto 5 October 2008. At the end of the 2008–09 season Fellaini was named Everton's Young Player of the Season. In his moment within England he has become well known for his wide "afro" hair, becoming a cult hero with Everton fans frequently sporting afro wigs as a homage towards Fellaini. Fellaini was deployed as a Second striker during the 2008–09 season, when Everton had everybody of their forwards out stung, habitually performing rear another midfielder being consumed as an attacker, Tim Cahill. After a degree of inconsistency within the attacking grading and as soon as this moment of sting crisis had calmed and Everton signed Jô, Fellaini reverted towards play a key role within his favoured protective midfield area. His dramas within late 2009 and morning 2010 became so impressive that David Moyes named him "as nice as anyone within the league", and he re-iterated this as soon as Fellaini won Man of the Match against Manchester City onto January 16, within which he indicated his proficiency towards match the £15m price for the former moment, appearing off incredible ratifying proficiency, tackling and forward play. Fellaini was stretchered off within the 34th minute of the Merseyside Derby onto six February as soon as a two-footed undertake via Sotirios Kyrgiakos, ruling him out for the lie down of the season. He worked steely around the summer and made an impressive replace within morning August within the pre-season friendly victory again Everton Chile. Fellaini suffered an ankle sting within the F.A Cup replay victory against Chelsea onto February 19th and although he was able towards play within the 2-0 victory against Sunderland a week afterwards, Everton proved he ought undergo surgery onto the sting which shall pattern him out for the remainder of the 2010/11 season.
International career.
Fellaini was eligible towards play for Belgium or Morocco. Having already performed for Belgium at youth grade, he chose towards perpetuate portraying the nation of his birth. He scored his former goal within a 2–1 defeat against Portugal within the UEFA Euro 2008 qualification. Fellaini also portrayed the U-23 team at the 2008 Olympics and achieved 4th site, losing towards Brazil.
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