André Ooijer

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André Ooijer
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André Ooijer (2009)
Personnel
Surname André Antonius Maria Ooijer
birthday July 11, 1974
place of birth Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size 184 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
SDW Amsterdam
SDZ Amsterdam
1986-1993 Ajax Amsterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1994 Jong Ajax
1994-1995 FC Volendam 32 0(4)
1995-12 / 97 Roda Kerkrade 75 0(9)
01 / 98-2006 PSV Eindhoven 192 (19)
2006-2009 Blackburn Rovers 79 0(2)
2009-2010 PSV Eindhoven 25 0(0)
2010–2012 Ajax Amsterdam 22 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2010 Netherlands 55 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

André Antonius Maria Ooijer (born July 11, 1974 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch football player .

Career

society

Ooijer started working for smaller Amsterdam clubs as a child before being discovered by AFC Ajax scouts in 1986 . After his youth, however, he found it difficult to switch to the first team and was therefore loaned out to league competitor FC Volendam in 1994 . There he made his debut in the Eredivisie on August 28, 1994. In the 3-0 win against Go Ahead Eagles , he received his first yellow card as a left defender . Three weeks later he scored his first of four goals of the season for Volendam against SC Heerenveen . Against his hometown club he was in the right defensive position for the first time in December 1994 - against the left Ajax flank with Marc Overmars , Clarence Seedorf and Frank de Boer . After four minutes, three goals had already been scored to make it 1: 2, and Ooijers scored a goal before half-time for the 2: 2 final result. He had integrated into Volendam without any problems and was a regular player in the defense throughout the season.

The following season Ooijer moved to Roda Kerkrade , the surprise runner-up of the 1994/95 season, to Kerkrade . Under coach Huub Stevens he made his debut in defense here alongside Marco van Hoogdalem , Johan de Kock and Roda legend Ger Senden in August 1995. But it took time for Ooijer, who was too fond of possession and build-up for Stevens' idea of ​​a defender, to prevail. It was not until October 1995 that Stevens started using it regularly. On October 31, 1995 he made his first international competitive game in the second-round second leg of the UEFA Cup against Benfica Lisbon . In two years under Stevens and his successor Martin Jol, he became one of the best players on the Roda team. After the coaching change, his position shifted from defender to (mostly right) midfield. Under Jol, the team won the KNVB Cup in 1997 .

During the winter break in 1997/98 then top club took PSV Eindhoven the defensive all-rounder as a replacement for a failed player to Eindhoven . Since then he has been an integral part of the team and had a share in PSV's successes in the following years (five championships, three runners-up, one cup win, Champions League participation).

In 2006 Ooijer moved to England for the Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League , where he prevailed under coach Mark Hughes in central defense against returnees Stéphane Henchoz , but later also played a few games on the right next to the Swiss. On January 20, 2007, Ooijer suffered a broken fibula and torn ankle tendons in the game against Manchester City and had to pause the rest of the season. After his return in the 2007/08 season , Hughes put his trust again in the Dutchman, who now played mostly as a right-back. Even under Hughes' successors Paul Ince and Sam Allardyce , Ooijer remained a regular player in the 2008/09 season and even made 32 league appearances this season. In the game at Everton he scored his first goal in the Premier League on August 16, 2008; it was the winning goal to make it 3-2 in the 90th minute of the game. His second and final goal in England also gave Blackburn two additional points; he scored it to 2-1 against Tottenham Hotspur again shortly before the final whistle.

For the 2009/10 season he returned to PSV. Coach Fred Rutten , who bet on Bulgarian Stanislaw Manolew on the right , put Ooijer back into central defense; here he played alongside Francisco Rodríguez and made a total of 25 league games. His contract, which expired at the end of the season, was not extended.

In August 2010 he moved to his youth club AFC Ajax , for which he made his Eredivisie debut on August 21, 2010 against Roda Kerkrade . By March 2012, the supplementary player was used 21 times for Ajax; on March 13, 2012, he announced that he would not extend his contract, but rather end his career at the end of the season at the age of almost 38.

National team

Although André Ooijer had been nominated for the Dutch national team for the 1998 World Cup , his first appearance came on June 5, 1999 in a friendly. In the following years he came only to occasional assignments and was not involved in any major tournament. It was only before the 2006 World Cup that he came into focus again and was added to the Netherlands ' World Cup squad by coach Marco van Basten . Besides goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, he was the only player in Germany who saw all the World Cup matches on the pitch from kick-off to the final whistle. Also in the 2008 European Cup he was part of the squad of the Oranje . He came to three missions. On May 27, 2010, bond coach Bert van Marwijk called him again in the squad for the World Cup in South Africa . At the World Cup he was in the starting line-up for the injured Joris Mathijsen in the quarter-final against Brazil . This was his last appearance for the Dutch national team.

titles and achievements

Private

Since October 2009 Ooijer and his wife Joyce, daughter of the old international Willy van de Kerkhof , are parents of a daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game data ( memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Voetbal International
  2. ↑ a b Gespierde spijker  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sport-Company.nl from January 2007, viewed on May 28, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sport-company.nl  
  3. ↑ Game data ( memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Voetbal International
  4. ^ Game data ( memento from April 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at Voetbal International
  5. ↑ Chris van Nijnatten, Autistic personeelsbeleid PSV schoffeert Ooijer , AD dated May 21, 2010, viewed on May 28, 2010
  6. ^ André Ooijer kondigt afscheid aan ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), AFC Ajax homepage from March 13, 2012
  7. ↑ Guardian: Ooijer replaces injured Mathijsen for Dutch Reporting by Martin Petty; Editing by Ken Ferris, July 2, 2010a
  8. ↑ Die Zeit: Oranje: Van Bronckhorst and Ooijer cease published on July 12, 2010
  9. ↑ Docher voor Van Persie ( Memento from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Onsoranje website of the KNVB from October 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Ooijer, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ooijer, André Antonius Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam