Erik Pieters

Erik Pieters
Personnel
birthday	August 7, 1988
place of birth	Enspijk , the  Netherlands
size	186 cm
position	Left full-back
Juniors
Years	station
	Rhelico
	FC Utrecht
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2008	FC Utrecht	51 (2)
2008-2013	PSV Eindhoven	93 (0)
2013-2019	Stoke City	190 (3)
2019	→  Amiens SC  (loan)	15 (1)
2019–	Burnley FC	15 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007-2010	Netherlands U-21	19 (1)
2010-2014	Netherlands	18 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 14, 2020

Erik Pieters (born August 7, 1988 in Enspijk ) is a Dutch football player . In June 2019, the central defender moved to the English first division club Burnley FC .

Career

society

Pieters began playing football at the Rhelico club near his birthplace. Scouts quickly became aware of him and soon the Dutch first division club FC Utrecht secured his services. He continued to develop in the club's youth department and joined the professional squad in 2006/07. After his first season he was a permanent member of the FCU the following year.

On July 9, 2008, he signed a four-year contract with PSV Eindhoven . There he received the jersey with the number 14, which had previously been worn by Slobodan Rajković . In his first season, Pieters came to 17 appearances in the Eredivisie. On the 11th matchday he underwent an own goal in the away game against Ajax Amsterdam which made it 1: 3, PSV lost the game 1: 4. He got other appearances in the UEFA Champions League and in the KNVB Cup . At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Pieters became a regular under the new coach Fred Rutten .

For the 2013/14 season he left PSV Eindhoven and moved to Stoke City . The transfer fee was 3.6 million euros, the left-back from the Netherlands signed for four years. In these four years Pieters played 138 Premier League games and after being relegated three times, he had to move into the second division after the end of the 2017/18 season. He stayed with the club for another six months before being loaned to the French first division team Amiens SC from the end of January 2019 .

With his move to Burnley FC in July 2019 , Pieters returned to the Premier League.

National team

In the summer of 2007, Foppe de Haan appointed him to the squad of the Dutch U-21s for the U-21 European Championship 2007 in the Netherlands. After Pieters had not yet been taken into account in the preliminary round match against Israel , he made his debut in the second game against Portugal as a substitute and secured the team's early qualification for the knockout round. In the semi-finals against England he was in the starting line-up, but was replaced due to an injury against Tim Janssen . This wound did not hinder him for long and he played for the team again in the final against Serbia . The game ended in a 4-1 win for the Dutch.

For the Olympic Summer Games 2008 Pieters was nominated for the Olympic selection of his country and came in Beijing on two missions. Among other things, he stood in the quarter-final against Argentina, which the Netherlands lost 2-1 after extra time.

After the 2010 World Cup , Bondscoach Bert van Marwijk Pieters called for the match in Donetsk on August 11, 2010 against Ukraine for the first time in the senior national team. Since the game did not take place long after the World Cup final, van Marwijk had decided not to use the players used in the World Cup. Pieters made his debut in a 1-1 draw when he came on as a substitute after half-time. In the following internationals he was in the starting line-up as a left defender.

successes

• U-21 European champions : 2007
• KNVB Cup : 2012 (with PSV)

Web links

• Erik Pieters in the database of weltfussball.de
• Erik Pieters in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pieters Joins Burnley (Stoke City FC)
2. ↑ Pieters: "Natuurlijk kan ik vaste linksback van Oranje" , Goal.com of October 13, 2010