Paul Jans (born 5 August 1981) is a Dutch professional

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

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for

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 ...

Career

Jans is a forward who was born in

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad creating the largest municipality of the provinc ...

and made his debut in professional football, being part of the VVV-Venlo squad in the 2000–01 season. In the 2006–2007 season he played on loan from

NEC Nijmegen NEC Nijmegen (''Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie''), commonly known as NEC (), is a professional Dutch association football club based in Nijmegen. The club currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, following promotion fr ...

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1981 births Men's association football forwards Living people Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Dutch expatriate men's footballers Dutch men's footballers VVV-Venlo players NEC Nijmegen players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Rot-Weiss Essen players F.C.V. Dender E.H. players People from Veghel De Treffers players Footballers from North Brabant Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium {{Netherlands-footy-forward-stub