Education
Meunier was signed by Club Brugge from Belgian Third Division team Virton in January 2011, with the actual transfer to be completed during the summer 2011 transfer period.
Meunier was signed by Club Brugge from Belgian Third Division team Virton in January 2011, with the actual transfer to be completed during the summer 2011 transfer period.
A few days earlier, Club Brugge had just missed out on the transfers of Dalibor Veselinović and Jelle Van Damme and therefore wanted to make sure Meunier would not become the third near mississippi Club Brugge managed to complete the deal before any of the several other interested Belgian clubs (Anderlecht, Standard Liège, Sint-Truiden and Zulte Waregem) could. On 31 July 2011, Club Brugge played its first match of the 2011-2012 season against Westerlo in which Meunier was allowed to play the final 20 minutes.
Meunier played a decent match, getting on the score sheet in the process.
At the time, Meunier was played as a striker or right winger, before he was formed into a right defender by his following coaches Juan Carlos Garrido and Georges Leekens due to a lack of players of that position after the injuries of his teammates Tom Högli and Davy De Fauw. As a rightback, Meunier is often recognized by his very offensive playing style, while also doing his defensive job flawlessly.
This is of course declarable by his past as a winger, which gives him the ability to run down his line for 90 minutes and assist and score a few goals per season. In September 2011, Meunier was called up for the Belgium U21 team and scored in the 2013 Union of European Football Associations European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Azerbaijan U21.
He played the whole game and performed quite decently, but made a mistake by letting opposing striker Radamel Falcao through the offside trap and thus allowing the opening goal.
The game eventually resulted in a 0-2 loss for Belgium. Meunier has been the subject of a few fierce discussions, mainly with his own fans, after a statement from local newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that he has always been a great Anderlecht-supporter ever since he was a little boy. Meunier himself always denied that he has ever stated this, which was later confirmed by Brugge-president Baronet Verhaeghe in newsand politics show "De Zevende Dag" on the Belgian public Dutch-language tv-channel Eén.