Geoffrey Prommayon (born 25 October 1971) is a former professional

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who played as a defender. Born in Thailand, he represented the Netherlands internationally at youth level.

Career

Prommayon played professional football between 1990 and 2005. He started his career at PSV and was sent on loan to

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in early 1991 and later to

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in 1992. From 1994 to December 1995 he played for PSV again. From 1996 to 2001, he played with Willem II in Tilburg. He ended his professional career in 2005 at his former club FC Eindhoven. In total, he made 322 appearances in which he scored seven goals. After his professional career he started playing football with the amateurs of Blauw Geel '38 from

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in the

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. There, he became assistant coach in the 2011–12 season. In 2013, he started playing at PSV/av, the amateur team of PSV, where he retired in 2017. After this, he became an assistant coach at PSV/av, where he occasionally participated as a player.

Outside football

Prommayon has worked for

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company

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since 2005, and resides in

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Personal life

Family

Prommayon was born in

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, Thailand, to a Thai mother and an American serviceman. His father was recalled to the United States before Prommayon's first birthday. Prommayon moved to the Netherlands with his mother when he was eight. Later in his life, when he was 27, he wrote a letter to the television program ''Spoorloos'' asking if they could trace down his father. The program found his biological father, Elmo Blackman, through an American veteran archive and brought him to the Netherlands, where Prommayon subsequently met him for the first time.

Legal issues

In 2003 he was arrested together with fellow footballers

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and

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, on suspicion of money laundering with a cigar dealer from

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. In January 2008, Prommayon and Abdellaoui were taken to court. Ramzi was not subsequently not prosecuted. On 28 January 2008 it was announced that Prommayon was no longer suspected of money laundering, but instead of laundering thirty thousand euros. In October 2010, he was acquitted of money laundering by the court, but together with Abdellaoui sentenced to a two-month

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for laundering $ 38,000 made in dealing

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Honours

PSV *

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: 1990–91, 1991–92

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prommayon, Geoffrey 1971 births Living people Geoffrey Prommayon Dutch people of American descent Dutch people of Thai descent Dutch footballers Men's association football defenders Netherlands men's youth international footballers Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players PSV Eindhoven players Sparta Rotterdam players FC Eindhoven players Willem II (football club) players Blauw Geel '38 players