Romelu Lukaku is an athlete.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup , the quadrennial world championship for men 's national football teams organized by FIFA . Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . Romelu Menama Lukaku ( born 13 May 1993 ) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Everton and the Belgium national team . He has also represented the country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016 . The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men 's national teams joining the automatically qualified hosts France in the UEFA Euro 2016 final tournament .