.jpg) Cools with Malaysia in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dion-Johan Chai Cools | ||
| Date of birth | 4 June 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia[1] | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back / Full-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Buriram United | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2005 | Tempo Overijse | ||
| 2005–2010 | OH Leuven | ||
| 2010–2011 | Anderlecht | ||
| 2011–2013 | OH Leuven | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2015 | OH Leuven | 26 | (0) |
| 2015–2020 | Club Brugge | 81 | (7) |
| 2020–2022 | Midtjylland | 38 | (1) |
| 2022 | → Zulte Waregem (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Jablonec | 8 | (0) |
| 2023– | Buriram United | 40 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014 | Belgium U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Belgium U19 | 8 | (2) |
| 2016–2019 | Belgium U21 | 18 | (4) |
| 2021– | Malaysia | 28 | (4) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 June 2024 | |||
Dion-Johan Chai Cools[3] (born 4 June 1996) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or full-back for Thai League 1 club Buriram United and the Malaysia national team.
Cools was raised in Belgium, and represented that country at youth level with 28 caps, but later chose to play for his native Malaysia, and made his senior debut on 3 June 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Dion-Johan Chai Cools". www.proleague.be. Retrieved 16 March 2022.