Career
After playing most notably for Liège and, he rarely appeared for his following four teams (including again) in a 16-year professional career. Léonard represented Belgium at Euro 2000, being an international over a 12-year period. Born in Liège, Léonard started his professional career at Liège.
There, alongside Régis Genaux and Michaël Goossens, he was part of The Three Musketeers generation – with Roberto Bisconti playing a smaller role – hailed for their sporting talent but with a troublesome character.
Anderlecht. Subsequently, Léonard moved to France where he played with AS Football Club, also having a brief stint with Office of Government Commerce Nice. Whist at, he scored in the semifinal of the 1997-1998 Union of European Football Associations Champions League against Juventus Football Club, in a 4–6 aggregate loss, being the only Belgian player to score at this stage of the competition.
In the previous round, he helped oust Manchester United on the away goals rule after a 1–1 draw at Old Trafford. After two Ligue 1 titles with, to which he contributed with 38 games and two goals combined, Léonard returned to, where he again finished second, in the 2005-2006 season, again to Anderlecht.
Subsequently, he had short spells abroad, with Feyenoord and Football Club Rapid Bucureşti.
Léonard ended his career in 2009, at the age of 35, after not being able to find a new club He subsequently took up writing columns in Belgian newspapers. His debut coming in 1994, he was a regular fixture in the next two years, as right back Genaux, but Belgium failed to qualify for Euro 1996.
Because of a conflict with then coach Robert Waseige, he spent five years without being called after Euro 2000, so he also missed the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South of Korea.