Quilindschy Hartman (born 14 November 2001) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club (association football), football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names bef ...

and the Netherlands national team.

Club career

In June 2020, Hartman signed a contract at

, where he was an academy player since moving from

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in 2010. He made his debut for the club on 21 August 2022, starting away against

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in a 1–0 win. On 8 September 2022, Hartman made his European debut, as a starter in a 4–2 away defeat to

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in the

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. Hartman scored his first goal for the club on 10 November 2022, scoring Feyenoord's first and only goal in a 1–0 win against

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. Four days later, Feyenoord announced that the club and Hartman had reached an agreement for the player to extend his contract until 2025. On 17 November 2022, Hartman signed his new contract. Hartman received praise for his performance in

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in January 2023, with

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calling Hartman the

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. On 25 January 2023, Hartman's squad

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was changed from 19 to 5. On 29 August 2023, Hartman once again extended his contract, with him signing a new contract until 2026.

International career

In September 2022, Hartman was picked by Remko Bicentini for the squad of the Curaçao national team ahead of friendly games against

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. However, Feyenoord didn't want to let Hartman go to his national team and Hartman was replaced by Bradley Martis in the squad. In March 2023, Hartman was included in the preliminary squad of the

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for the first two matches of the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers, but was not included in the final squad and was instead called up for the Netherlands U21 team. On 25 March, he made his debut for the U21 team as a starter in a friendly against

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. He was later included in the U21 squad for the UEFA Under-21 Euro 2023. On 1 September 2023, Hartman was called up for the Euro 2024 qualifiers against

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and

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. He was once again called up for the Euro 2024 qualifiers against

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and

, resulting in him making his debut as well as scoring his first goal for the national team in a 1–2 loss to France on 13 October.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Feyenoord *

: 2022–23

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartman, Quilindschy 2001 births Living people Dutch people of Curaçao descent Dutch men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Eredivisie players Feyenoord players Excelsior Rotterdam players Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers Netherlands men's international footballers