Martin van Duren known as Mart (born 27 October 1964) is a retired Dutch

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/ref> Van Duren played his youth football in the youth department by

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. In 1982 he advanced from their U-19 team to their first team. Two years later her transferred to

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, where he played for two seasons, but because the team were relegated, he then moved on to BVV Den Bosch, where he played for five seasons. Van Duren then moved to

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, he played four seasons with them. Van Duren joined

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's first team for their 1994–95 season under head coach

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. After playing in one test game against the clubs own U-21 team, in which he scored a goal, as the professionals won 5–0, van Duren played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the

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on 2 October 1994 as Basel played against

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. He scored his first goal for the club in the same game as they played a 1–1 draw. At the end of the season van Duren retired from his active football career. During his time with Basel, van Duren played a total of 12 games for the team scoring two goals. Six of these games were in the Nationalliga A and six were friendly games. He scored one goal in the domestic league and the other was scored in the afore mentioned test game.

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* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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