Erik Meijer

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Erik Meijer
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Meijer in May 2008 in Aachen
Personnel
birthday 2nd August 1969
place of birth Meerssen ,  Netherlands
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1985 SV Meerssen
1985-1986 MVV Maastricht
1986-1988 Fortuna Sittard
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 Fortuna Sittard 14 0(1)
1989-1990 Royal Antwerp 0 0(0)
1989-1990 FC Eindhoven 14 0(5)
1990-1991 Fortuna Sittard 26 0(5)
1991-1993 MVV Maastricht 66 (34)
1993-1995 PSV Eindhoven 40 (13)
1995-1996 KFC Uerdingen 05 32 (11)
1996-1999 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 84 (16)
1999-2000 Liverpool FC 24 0(0)
2000 →  Preston North End  (loan) 9 0(0)
2000-2003 Hamburger SV 58 (11)
2003-2006 Alemannia Aachen 92 (19)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993 Netherlands 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2007 Alemannia Aachen (assistant trainer)
2014– MVV Maastricht (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Erik Meijer (born August 2, 1969 in Meerssen ) is a former Dutch football player , coach and today's Sky football expert .

Career

society

Erik Meijer started his career in his hometown at SV Meerssen. When he was 16, he moved to MVV Maastricht , only to join Fortuna Sittard a year later . Professionally, he completed an apprenticeship as a butcher because his father owned a butcher's shop. Hence his nickname "The Butcher", which is still valid today.

In 1989 he moved to Belgium for Royal Antwerp , but returned shortly afterwards to the Netherlands, where he played again for Sittard, Maastricht and PSV Eindhoven .

In 1995 he moved to Germany for KFC Uerdingen 05 . There he became a regular player straight away and formed the Uerdinger storm duo together with Heiko Laeßt . Meijer played 32 out of 34 possible games in his first season in Germany. Because of ten yellow cards during the season, he missed all games. Only Marcus Wedau and Stephan Passlack achieved the same number of missions. The Dutchman gave his premier game in the Bundesliga on August 11, 1995 in a 0-0 away game against VfB Stuttgart . The striker had to wait until matchday four for his first goal. Meijer scored 1-0 for his team in the 3-0 win against Werder Bremen . After the 05er missed relegation, the attacker decided to move to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . There he had great competition with Paulo Sérgio , Ulf Kirsten and the young Markus Feldhoff . Nevertheless, he came to regular appearances and played a total of 32 games. At the end of the season they missed first place and became runner-up. The following year the Werkself finished third and again second for the 1998/99 season. During this time Meijer played regularly and played at least 26 games for Leverkusen each season.

At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season he decided to move to England, to Liverpool FC . There he was mostly in the shadow of Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler . To be able to give him match practice, Meijer was loaned to Preston North End for the 2000/01 season. In December of the same game year, Hamburger SV secured the services of the former Uerdinger, so that he was eligible to play against FC Bayern Munich on Matchday 17, December 17, 2000, and was called up by Frank Pagelsdorf in the starting line-up. He stayed with HSV for the next two and a half years, but could no longer build on the earlier Bundesliga times. His most successful season there was 2001/2002, when he scored four goals and was the best Hamburger with nine assists.

In summer 2003 he joined Alemannia Aachen . Meijer was a top performer and regular at the second division team at the time . In his first year with Aachen, he led the team into the final of the DFB Cup with five goals in five games . There they lost to Werder Bremen 2: 3. After assisting Cristian Fiél , Meijer was able to shorten the game in the 90th minute, but not avert the defeat. During the first two years at Tivoli , the attacker narrowly missed promotion to the top division twice. In his last year with Aachen, the 2005/06 season, he was promoted back to the Bundesliga after 36 years with second place. At his last home game as an active player on May 7, 2006, he and Wilfried "Willi" Landgraf officially bid farewell to the Aachen management and audience after three very successful years. His farewell game took place on October 8, 2006 with Willi Landgraf at the Tivoli in Aachen. The fathers of Willi Landgraf and Erik Meijer called their sons from the field and ended the farewell game.

National team

In 1993 he played once in the Dutch national team in a 6-0 win against San Marino .

After the active career

In September 2006 Meijer started working as an assistant trainer at Alemannia Aachen. On May 22, 2007, he resigned from this position and said that he would spend more time with his family and travel more extensively. He had already planned this after he left as a player, but hadn't gotten around to it because of his quick appointment as assistant coach at Alemannia. In May 2008 he returned to Alemannia and initially helped with the marketing of the new stadium . In December 2009 he took over the newly created post of Managing Director Sport in Aachen , which he held until Alemannia was relegated to the 3rd division at the end of the 2011/12 season. Erik Meijer is currently working as a Sky football expert in the Champions League and the Bundesliga .

Achievements and titles

With the clubs

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Erik Meijer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KFC Uerdingen 05: The Kader 1995/1996 ( Memento from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  2. ↑ Match statistics VfB Stuttgart - KFC Uerdingen 05 0: 0 (0: 0) from August 11, 1995 on fussballdaten.de
  3. ↑ Match statistics KFC Uerdingen 05 - SV Werder Bremen 3: 0 (1: 0) from September 2, 1995 on fussballdaten.de
  4. ^ The games of the Bundesliga 1996/1997 for Bayer Leverkusen on fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Erik Meijer storms on the Elbe on December 11, 2000 on spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Match statistics FC Bayern Munich - Hamburger SV 2: 1 (0: 1) from December 17, 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  7. ↑ Match statistics SV Werder Bremen - Alemannia Aachen 3: 2 (2: 0) from May 29, 2004 ( Memento from July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  8. ↑ Erik Meijer - Statistics at voetbalstats.nl
  9. ^ Alemannia Aachen: Erik Meijer becomes Managing Director Sport , December 14, 2009 ( Memento from December 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ A new beginning without Erik Meijer , April 25, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Meijer, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerssen