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Julian Jenner
Julian Christopher Jenner (born 28 February 1984) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger. Known for his fast step over move, Jenner began his professional career with NAC Breda, and grew into one of the most promising wingers in the Eredivisie. He moved to AZ in 2006, where he was mostly a reserve after a good first season. A three-year stint followed with Vitesse, where he also never managed to grow into a starter and was sent on two loan spells. He then moved abroad to play in Hungary and has a short stint in England before retiring in January 2016. A youth international, Jenner was part of the Netherlands U21 team winning gold at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship at home. Club career Early career Jenner started playing football at amateur club DVV Delft. Afterwards, he played for one year at Feyenoord, before returning to DVV and later playing for TONEGIDO. Jenner then moved to the youth academy of DHC, where his father was a coac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delft
Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area and the Randstad. Delft is a popular tourist destination in the Netherlands, famous for its historical connections with the reigning House of Orange-Nassau, for its Delftware, blue pottery, for being home to the painter Johannes Vermeer, Jan Vermeer, and for hosting Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Historically, Delft played a highly influential role in the Dutch Golden Age. In terms of science and technology, thanks to the pioneering contributions of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Martinus Beijerinck, Delft can be considered to be the birthplace of microbiology. History Early history The city of Delft came into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2007 were held from 10 June 2007 to 23 June 2007. It was the 16th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. Summary For the first time, a host nation was chosen ahead of the competition – the Netherlands, who were also the defending champions, were exempt from qualifying. The host nation was chosen on 15 December 2005. England, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, and Sweden also submitted bids. Of UEFA's 52 member countries, only the Faroe Islands did not compete in the qualification round for the tournament. That left 50 nations attempting to qualify for the seven remaining spots at the finals. This was the first time that the competition's final matches took place in an odd-numbered year. UEFA took this decision with the will to give more visibility to the tournament, since during even-numbered years the competition was clouded by the approaching FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship. The tournament also served as the European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It is the second-tier competition of European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Europa Conference League. The UEFA Cup was the third-tier competition from 1971 to 1999 before the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued, and it is still often referred to as the “C3” in reference of this. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Introduced in 1971 as the UEFA Cup, it replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In 1999, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was merged with the UEFA Cup and discontinued as a separate competition. From the 2004–05 season a group stage was added before the knockout phase. The competition has been known as the Europa Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stein Huysegems
Stein Huysegems (; born 16 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Career He started his career at Belgian club Lierse SK, and has also played for the Dutch Eredivisie powerhouses like AZ, Feyenoord and FC Twente. On 16 January 2009, Huysegems signed a contract at Genk lasting until 30 June 2013. In September 2010, he went out on loan until the end of the season to the Dutch Eredivisie club Roda JC, but his deal was terminated on 22 March 2011. Before the start of the 2011–12 season of the Belgian Pro League, he was deemed surplus to requirements at Genk and his contract was terminated by mutual consent. Some weeks later, he signed an achievement based one-year contract with Lierse on 3 September 2011. As the contract between Genk and Huysegems had not been terminated before 30 June 2011, the Royal Belgian Football Association ruled that he was not allowed to play for his new team before 2012, causing him to be sidelined for almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal (; born 8 August 1951) is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having three spells in charge of the Netherlands. Van Gaal is one of the greatest and most decorated managers in world football, having won 20 major honours in his managerial career. He is sometimes nicknamed the "Iron Tulip". Before his career as a coach, Van Gaal played as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp, Telstar, Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax and AZ Alkmaar. He is also a qualified physical education teacher, and worked at high schools during his career as a semi-professional footballer. After a brief spell as an assistant coach at AZ, Van Gaal served as an assistant under Leo Beenhakker at Ajax, and eventually took over as head coach in 1991. Under his lead, the club won three Eredivisie titles, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League. He moved to Barcelona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Vonlanthen
Johan Vonlanthen Benavídez (born 1 February 1986) is a Swiss former professional association football, footballer who played as a winger (association football), winger. Having made his Swiss Super League debut BSC Young Boys at the age of 16, he moved to PSV Eindhoven, PSV in 2003. He initially announced the end of his active career in May 2012. He came back out of retirement in May 2013 and signed for Grasshopper Club Zürich, Grasshoppers in June. He retired in August 2018 after two years with FC Wil. Club career Early career Vonlanthen played as a junior for BSC Young Boys in Switzerland. In the 2001–02 Nationalliga A, 2001–02 season, he made his debut as a 16-year-old in the Swiss Super League starting eight games and appearing once as a substitute. In the summer of 2003, he was transferred to the Dutch Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven. On 21 June 2004, Vonlanthen became the youngest goalscorer when he scored for the Switzerland national football team, Switzerland natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Van Hooijdonk
Pierre van Hooijdonk (; born 29 November 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. He had spells with clubs across Europe where he was a prolific goal scorer. Van Hooijdonk was capped 46 times for the Dutch national team, for which he scored 14 goals and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, Euro 2004. Noted for his Curl (association football), bending Free kick (association football), free kicks, he is regarded by some as one of the greatest free kick specialists of all time. Early life Van Hooijdonk was born in Steenbergen. His Morocco, Moroccan biological father left Van Hooijdonk's mother before his birth. He grew up in Welberg (:nl:Welberg, nl), a small village near Steenbergen. His favourite team was NAC Breda whose game he followed wholeheartedly. At 11 years old, while playing with local team SC Welberg's youth squad, he took part in a trial on the NAC open day, impressed their scouts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Van Galen
Bart "Barry" van Galen (; born 4 April 1970, in Haarlem) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He debuted in Dutch professional football on 17 August 1991 (Haarlem - Telstar 2–1) and internationally for the Netherlands national team on 17 November 2004 against Andorra , image_flag = Flag of Andorra.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Andorra.svg , symbol_type = Coat of arms , national_motto = la, Virtus Unita Fortior, label=none (Latin)"United virtue is stro .... His playing career ended in 2006 and he scouted for AZ until 2019. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Galen, Barry Van 1970 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Dutch men's footballers Footballers from Haarlem Netherlands men's international footballers Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players HFC Haarlem players Roda JC Kerkrade players NAC Breda players AZ Alkmaar players AZ Alkmaar non-playing staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anouar Diba
Anouar Diba ( Riffian-Berber: ⴰⵏⵡⴰⵔ ⴷⵉⴱⴰ, born 27 February 1983 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-Moroccan former footballer. Club career Diba is a forward who was made his debut in professional football during the 2002–03 season, being part of the NAC Breda squad. He spent five seasons with NAC in the Dutch Eredivisie and had a short spell at FC Twente in 2010. In the winter of 2011, after sustaining a leg injury, Diba had to be treated in London, subsequently missing much of the league matches of his then-new club, Lekhwiya. As a result, Diba was cut from the squad. While numerous news outlets had reported Diba's departure, he himself had not received any official confirmation of being released by the club officials, and was first informed after receiving calls from his agent and friends. Before Diba's trip to London, Lekhwiya coach Djamel Belmadi had claimed Diba was one of the most prominent professionals in the team. This came as a surprise to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ton Lokhoff
Antonius Johannes Jacobus "Ton" Lokhoff (born 25 December 1959) is a Dutch football manager and former player, currently serving as assistant coach and interim head coach of NAC Breda. Playing career Lokhoff is named ''Mister NAC'' due to his long-time association with hometown club NAC from Breda, where he played from 1978 to 1982 and later from 1991 to 1996. He moved to PSV in 1982, where he experienced the high point of his playing career. At the club he became Eredivisie champion in 1986, alongside players such as Ruud Gullit, Frank Arnesen and Eric Gerets, among others. In this period he also played two international matches for the Netherlands national team; against Austria and Hungary. Lokhoff then moved to French club Nîmes Olympique, before returning to the Netherlands to play for Feyenoord and later coming back to finish his career with childhood club NAC in 1991. He played his last match in Breda on 11 August 1996 against Brazilian club Grêmio at the inaugurati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFC Ajax
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax (named after the legendary Greek hero) is the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 36 and 20 KNVB Cups. It has continuously played in the , since the league's inception in 1956 and, along with and , it is one of the country's " big three" clubs that have dominated that competition. Ajax was one of the most successful clubs in the world in the 20th century. According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, Ajax were the seventh-most successful European club of the 20th century and ''The World's Club Team of the Year'' in 1992. According to German magazine ''Kicker'', Ajax were the second-most successful European club of the 20th century. The club is one of five teams that have earned the right to keep the European Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VSV TONEGIDO
VSV TONEGIDO were a lower league club from the town of Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands. The peak of the club's success was in 2002–03 when TONEGIDO won successive KNVB Amateur Cup's and the Dutch Amateur Super Cup. They went into administration during the 2009–10 season while they were playing in the Hoofdklasse and board eventually decided to disband the club after a vote among members. History The club was originally founded in 1921, but was short-lived and was disbanded after a short time. On 1 February 1924, the club was re-founded by some former members. The club's home kit consisted of a white shirt with the Voorburg coat of arms on the left chest, black shorts and black socks with a white collar. The club was traditionally located on the Rodelaan in Voorburg, but from 1 September 2005, TONEGIDO's home ground moved to Sportpark 't Loo in Voorburg. The reason for this was that the adjacent cemetery had to expand, which meant that the club had to move. There are now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
