Daniël Deen (born 13 February 2003) is a Dutch professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a goalkeeper for

AZ Alkmaar Alkmaar Zaanstreek (), better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ (), is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan district. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and ho ...

Career

Daniël Deen joined the AZ academy at the under-12 level, having previously been with VSV in

Velsen Velsen () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal. On the north side of the North Sea Canal there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known a ...

. He agreed to his first professional contract with the club in July 2021, signing a two-year contract. In December 2022 Deen was included in a squad of 30 players travelling with the AZ first team on a mid-season training camp in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

, Spain. He made his professional debut for

Jong AZ Jong AZ is a Dutch association football team, based in Zaandam in the Zaanstreek The Zaan () is a small river in the province of North Holland in the northwestern Netherlands and the name of a district through which it runs. The river was origina ...

in January 2023 in the

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 win over Jong Utrecht. That same month he also appeared in his first match day squad Saturday for

, being named amongst the match day substitutes in the

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

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* Living people 2003 births Dutch footballers Association football goalkeepers Jong AZ players Eerste Divisie players {{Netherlands-footy-goalkeeper-stub