Jan van Deinsen (born 19 June 1953 in Tiel, Gelderland) is a retired

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midfielder and

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from the Netherlands.

Playing career

Club

The left-sided midfielder from

Wamel Wamel is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Gelderland. It is part of the West Maas en Waal municipality, about 3 km east of Tiel. Wamel was a separate municipality until 1984, when it merged with Appeltern and Dreumel. The new ...

made his professional debut for NEC on 12 September 1971 against SC Telstar and also played for

Go Ahead Eagles Go Ahead Eagles () are a Dutch professional football club from the city of Deventer. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, having achieved promotion from the second tier Eerste Divisie in the 2020-21 season. The club's h ...

, before joining Dutch giants Feyenoord for whom he would play 7 years. He won the

1979–80 KNVB Cup The 62nd edition of the KNVB Cup started on September 1, 1979. The final was played on May 17, 1980: Feyenoord beat Ajax 3–1 and won the cup for the fifth time. During the quarter and semi-finals, two-legged matches were held. Teams * All 18 ...

with the club, but he had to quit football in 1984 due to injuries of his achilles tendon.

International

He obtained one cap for the

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, when the Netherlands lost to the Republic of Ireland on 10 September 1980 in Dublin.

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, van Deinsen coached amateur sides Babberich and JVC Cuijk and was assistant at several professional clubs as well as to fellow Dutch managers Clemens Westerhof at Nigeria and Wim Rijsbergen at Trinidad and Tobago. In 2003 he was named manager of Eerste Divisie club

MVV Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging Maastricht (), commonly known as MVV Maastricht (, ) or simply as MVV, is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht. Founded on 2 April 1902, MVV Maastricht currently compete in the Eers ...

, only to leave them in February 2004. He was appointed manager of

Achilles '29 Achilles '29 is a football club from Groesbeek, Netherlands, competing in the sixth-tier Eerste Klasse. The club is known for its successes in the Dutch domestic cup, having knocked FC Volendam, Heracles Almelo, RKC Waalwijk, Telstar and MV ...

in July 2012 after leaving the amateurs of JVC Cuijk.Jan van Deinsen nieuwe trainer Achilles ’29
– De Groesbeek

Honours

Club

Feyenoord *

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(1) : 1979–80

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