Nils den Hartog (born 25 March 1994) is a Dutch professional

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who last played as a

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for

Kozakken Boys Kozakken Boys () is a Dutch football club based in Werkendam. It competes in Tweede Divisie, the highest amateur league of Dutch football. Formed as Steeds Voorwaarts Werkendam (SVW) in 1932, it adopted its current name in 1935. Kozakken Boys ...

in the

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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 ...

Career

Den Hartog played in the youth academy of

RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk () is a Dutch professional football club based in Waalwijk, that is currently competing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' ('Roman Catholic Combination' in Dutch) and was established as a merger ...

after having been scouted at his local club HSSC '61. He had initially been on a trial with PSV, but not managed to make the team. After being promoted to the first team of RKC, he was unable to play for a long time due to a fracture of his calf and shin. Den Hartog finally made his debut for the

Waalwijk Waalwijk () is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands. It had a population of in and is located near the motorways A59 and N261. The villages of Capelle, Vrijhoeve-Capelle, Sprang (the former municipality of Sprang-Capelle) and W ...

-based club on 19 December 2014, when they lost 5–3 to Emmen. As a replacement for Arjan van Dijk, he defended the goal throughout the game. That season he would make six appearances for the main squad and in the summer of 2015 he was assigned jersey number 1. In the summer of 2016, Den Hartog was sent on loan by RKC to

for one season. After this loan period, Kozakken Boys decided to sign the goalkeeper on a permanent contract. In December 2020, it was announced that he would leave at the end of the season.

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* 1994 births Living people Dutch men's footballers RKC Waalwijk players Kozakken Boys players Eerste Divisie players Tweede Divisie players People from Leerdam Men's association football goalkeepers Footballers from Utrecht (province) 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-footy-goalkeeper-stub