Personal information | |||
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Full name | Naïm-Nhour Jan Van Attenhoven | ||
Date of birth | 31 January 2003 | ||
Place of birth | Brussels, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
Brussels | |||
Mechelen | |||
2013–2014 | PSV | ||
2014–2016 | OH Leuven | ||
2016–2019 | Charleroi | ||
2019–2020 | Standard Liège | ||
2020 | → Charleroi (loan) | ||
2020–2021 | Anderlecht | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2022–2023 | Ninove | 7 | (0) |
2023–2024 | Valenciennes B | 8 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2018 | Belgium U16 | 1 | (0) |
2020 | Belgium U17 | 2 | (0) |
2021 | Niger U20 | 3 | (0) |
2023 | Niger U23 | 3 | (0) |
2021– | Niger | 10 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 October 2023 |
Naïm-Nhour Jan Van Attenhoven (born 31 January 2003) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Born in Belgium, he represented them at youth level before switching his allegiance to Niger.
Van Attenhoven is a former youth team player of several Belgian clubs and Dutch club PSV. In May 2020, he joined the youth academy of Anderlecht.[1] In January 2022, his contract with the club was terminated as per mutual agreement.[2]
After spending six months as a free agent, Van Attenhoven joined newly promoted Belgian National Division 1 club Ninove in July 2022.[3]
Van Attenhoven is eligible to represent both Belgium and Niger at international level. He is a former Belgian youth international and has played in friendlies for under-17 team.[4]
In March 2021, Van Attenhoven received maiden call-up to Niger national team for Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Ivory Coast and Madagascar.[5] He made his senior team debut on 9 June 2021 in a 1–0 friendly defeat against Congo.[6][7] He also played for Niger under-20 team at 2021 Arab Cup U-20 the same month.[8]
Van Attenhoven was born in Belgium to a Belgian father and a Nigerien mother.[5] He is the nephew of former Nigerien international footballer Ibrahim Tankary.[9]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Niger | 2021 | 4 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | |
2023 | 2 | 0 | |
2024 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 10 | 0 |