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Axel Witsel
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Belgian association football player (born 1989)
Axel Witsel is a professional soccer player from Belgium who was born in 1989 and has played at the highest levels of the sport. He is notable as a Belgian athlete who has competed in major football leagues and tournaments throughout his career.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1956-08-01
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 19
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Density-functional thermochemistry. III. The role of exact exchange
· 1993 · cited 98,558x
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,793x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,498x
- A new mixing of Hartree–Fock and local density-functional theories
· 1993 · cited 15,461x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,080x
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Girona
- Position
- Defensive Midfield
- Nationality
- Belgium
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lambert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Liège
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Award
- Belgian Golden Shoe
- Participant in
- 2022 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Atlético Madrid
- Position played
- centre-back
- League
- Q82595
- Country for sport
- Belgium
- Mass
- 81
- Official website
- www.axelwitsel28.com
- Image
- Witsel celebrating bronze (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 186
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- Commons category
- Axel Witsel
- date of birth
- 1989-01-12
- sport number
- 20
- name in native language
- Axel Witsel
- birth name
- Axel Laurent Angel Lambert Witsel
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- social media followers
- 650727
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 1 April 2026 (UTC)
Axel Laurent Angel Lambert Witsel (born 12 January 1989) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for La Liga club Girona and the Belgium national team.
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