Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bill Leeroy Antonio | ||
Date of birth | 3 September 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Dzivarasekwa, Zimbabwe[1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Mechelen | ||
Number | 38 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2020 | Prince Edward School | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2020–2022 | Dynamos | ||
2022– | Jong KVM | 33 | (10) |
2023– | Mechelen | 8 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
2021– | Zimbabwe | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC) |
Bill Leeroy Antonio (born 3 September 2002) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a winger for Belgian club Mechelen, and the Zimbabwe national team.
For the 2023-24 Belgian season, Antonio started in Mechelen's second team in Belgian Division 2, Jong KV. He made his professional debut for Mechelen as a substitute in a 3-0 Mechelen win over Standard Liege on 5 November 2023, and continued to make appearances off the bench for the Malinwa, scoring the winner in a 2-1 win at Gent on 19 January 2024, the club's first away win over the Buffalos since 2012.[2]
Antonio made his international debut with the Zimbabwe national team as an 18-year-old in a 1–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification loss to South Africa on 11 November 2021.[3] It was his first call-up. [4]
Antonio was named in the Zimbabwe squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations,[5] but along with Panashe Mutimbanyoka and Temptation Chiwunga did not travel to Cameroon due to organisational problems.