Glenn Loovens

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Glenn Loovens
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Personnel
birthday September 22, 1983
place of birth Doetinchem , the  Netherlands
size 188 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
HOV / DJSCR Rotterdam
Feyenoord Rotterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2005 Feyenoord Rotterdam 26 (0)
2003-2004 →  Excelsior Rotterdam  (loan) 24 (2)
2004-2005 →  De Graafschap  (loan) 11 (0)
2005-2008 Cardiff City 100 (3)
2008–2012 Celtic Glasgow 57 (8)
2012-2013 Real Zaragoza 21 (0)
2013-2018 Sheffield Wednesday 131 (1)
2018-2019 Sunderland AFC 11 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2009-2010 Netherlands 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 1, 2020

Glenn Loovens (born September 22, 1983 in Doetinchem ) is a Dutch football player .

Club career

Loovens was born in Doetinchem, but grew up in Rotterdam, where he and his six-year-old brother Ivo started playing football at HOV / DJSCR Rotterdam when he was four. The son of the former FC Twente player Hans Loovens switched to the youth of Feyenoord at the age of twelve , where he played with Robin van Persie , among others . The Rotterdam club was also his first professional station. In the Eredivisie , the central defender made his debut on November 25, 2001 under coach Bert van Marwijk against Willem II , but could not prevail in the first team, as van Marwijk preferred the more experienced Patrick Paauwe . He could not take part in the 2002 UEFA Cup final after suffering a concussion in a collision with NAC player Orlando Engelaar . At the beginning of the next season, a knee injury threw him back, and so he came in the first two seasons until 2003 to only 20 missions. In the 2003/04 season Loovens was loaned for the first time and made 22 games for local rivals Excelsior in the Eerste Divisie . In the following season he was under the new coach Ruud Gullit in six more games at Feyenoord before he was loaned for the rest of the season to the promoted De Graafschap from his hometown Doetinchem. He could not prevent the direct relegation of the Grafschafter.

For the 2005/06 season Cardiff City brought him to the English second division , initially also on loan. With the Welsh , Loovens was able to earn a regular place in the defense alongside captain Darren Purse within a very short time . His robust style of play earned him the nickname The Terminator . Cardiff bought him from Feyenoord for the 2006/07 season. Loovens stayed three seasons in total with the Welsh team, for whom he played in exactly 100 league games and with which he reached the FA Cup final in 2008, before moving to Celtic in August 2008. After four years in Scotland, he moved to Spain, where he played for Real Zaragoza from 2012 to 2013 . Then he was under contract with Sheffield Wednesday for five years . In 2018 he moved to Sunderland AFC .

National team

Loovens was already used in his first professional season in the U-21 team of the KNVB , which was trained by Foppe de Haan . In August 2009, his former Feyenoord coach van Marwijk, now Bondscoach , surprisingly appointed him to the extended squad and on August 28, 2009 to the final squad of the senior national team for a friendly against Japan and the last World Cup qualifier against Scotland . In the 3-0 win against Japan on September 5 in Enschede , he made his Oranje debut, as did Eljero Elia and goalkeeper Piet Velthuizen .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glenn Loovens op huurbasis naar De Graafschap ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Feyenoord homepage from January 31, 2005, viewed on August 28, 2009
  2. ↑ Van Marwijk verrast met Glenn Loovens in voorlopige selectie , Blik op nieuws from August 19, 2009, viewed on August 28, 2009
  3. ↑ Van Marwijk roept Elia en Loovens op ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), OnsOranje website of the KNVB from August 28, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Loovens, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Doetinchem , the Netherlands