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·12 July 2024
Former Leicester City, Fulham and Brighton midfielder returns to boyhood club in lower reaches of Belgian football after retirement
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·12 July 2024
While he may have retired from professional football, Anthony Knockaert has not decided to fully hang the boots up just yet. The mercurial winger will play next season in the lower reaches of Belgian football with Mouscron, the phoenix club of the now defunct Royal Excelsior Mouscron. Stade Mouscronnois were formed in 2022 to ensure that the town would still have a football team and currently plays in the lower reaches of the Belgian football pyramid. The former side went out of business in 2022 after being relegated from the Pro League the previous season.
Knockaert, from just across the border in Roubaix, trained with Mouscron as a youngster before joining the Guingamp youth system. He went on the play for Leicester and Brighton, where he had the biggest impact. He did also play for half a season with Standard Liege, his only time in Belgian football. Last year he left Fulham to play in the French second tier with Valenciennes FC, who were subsequently relegated to the third tier of French football.
After retiring, he returns to the side where he started playing football.