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Bill Antonio
Personal information
Full name	Bill Leeroy Antonio
Date of birth	3 September 2002 (age 22)
Place of birth	Dzivarasekwa, Zimbabwe
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Mechelen
Number	38
Youth career
0000–2020	Prince Edward School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2020–2022	Dynamos
2022–	Jong KVM
2023–	Mechelen
International career‡
2021–	Zimbabwe
	*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.

Club career

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]

International career

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.