Joey Dekkers (born 3 October 1989) is a Dutch

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

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie ( en, Second Division) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and b ...

club

Groene Ster RKSV Groene Ster is a Dutch football club based in Heerlerheide. The club play its home games at Pronsebroek. The club colours, reflected in their crest, kit and name, are green and white. Formed on 2 November 1926, the club have mostly played i ...

Club career

Dekkers moved into professional football relatively late at 25 years, after joining

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 2015 from amateur side EVV. Before that, the left-sided midfielder played for SVC 2000 and Sportclub Irene. He made his professional debut 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 ...

for Achilles '29 on 7 August 2015 in a game against

Jong Ajax Jong Ajax () (''English: Young Ajax''), also referred to as Ajax II or Ajax 2 is a Dutch association football team, the reserve team of Ajax. It is based in Amsterdam and competes in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. History Jong Ajax (''formerly more ...

and scored a winning goal in a 2–1 victory for Achilles. In 2017, he suffered relegation with Achilles '29 from the Eerste Divisie, after which he returned to EVV in the

Derde Divisie The Derde Divisie (; en, Third Division), formerly known as Topklasse (; en, Top Class), is the fourth tier of football in the Netherlands, which had its inaugural season as a third tier in 2010–11 and as a fourth tier in 2016–17. The league ...

. In 2018, he returned to Achilles '29, at that time also competing in the Derde Divisie. After Achilles '29 suffered another relegation, Dekkers moved to fellow Groesbeek club

De Treffers De Treffers is an amateur football club from Groesbeek, Netherlands. The club plays in the Tweede Divisie, the highest amateur league of Dutch football. History It was founded in 1919, and its first chairman was Jan Piepenbreier. De Treffers h ...

in June 2019, playing in the third-tier

. In February 2021

confirmed, that Dekkers would joint he club ahead of the upcoming 2021-22 season.SELECTIENIEUWS: JOEY DEKKERS EERSTE NIEUWKOMER BIJ GROENE STER
groenester.nl, 19 February 2021

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- Voetbal International * * 1989 births Living people People from Tegelen Men's association football midfielders Dutch men's footballers RKVV EVV players Achilles '29 players Eerste Divisie players De Treffers players RKSV Groene Ster players Tweede Divisie players Derde Divisie players Footballers from Limburg (Netherlands) {{Netherlands-footy-midfielder-stub