Ewout Albert Marie-Louise Denijs (born 4 February 1987 in Bruges

Bruges

Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....

) is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 professional football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player. He usually plays as forward

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

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Career

Denys was plucked away by Cercle Brugge at a young age when he was playing for his home side SV Ruddervoorde, the same team where Thomas Buffel

Thomas Buffel

Thomas Buffel is a Belgian footballer who plays for Jupiler League side RC Genk. He is an attacking midfielder and can play as a striker...

 started his career. He made his début for the first team of Cercle on 9 September 2006 in a 1-2 win against SV Zulte Waregem. He was once in the starting eleven, against Lierse

Lierse S.K.

Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring is a Belgian professional football club, from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse has been playing in the Belgian Pro League since the 2010-11 season and they have already won the competition 4 times. They also have won 2 Belgian Cups...

.

For the 2007-08 season, Denys is loaned to SK Deinze

K.M.S.K. Deinze

K.M.S.K. Deinze is a Belgian association football club founded in 1926 based in Deinze, East Flanders.The club colours are orange & black and the team currently plays in the Belgian Third Division...

 in the Belgian Second Division

Belgian Second Division

The Belgian Second Division is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system after the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the Belgian Football Association in 1905. Between 2008 and 2010 it was named EXQI League after a television channel owned by the league main sponsor,...

. The season before, Jan Masureel

Jan Masureel

Jan Masureel is a Belgian professional football player. He is a tall and powerful full-back, who also likes to play in an attacking role. On the other hand, Masureel is not one of the fastest runners....

 was loaned from Cercle Brugge to SK Deinze.

Denijs signed a contract with Standaard Wetteren

K. Standaard Wetteren

Standaard Wetteren is a Belgian association football club team from Wetteren. Its matricule is 5479. They became champions in Third Division A in the 2008–09 season and thus will promote for the first time in their history to Second Division.-History:...

on 29 May 2008.