Jan Ruiter

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Jan Ruiter
Jan Ruiter 1976.jpg
Jan Ruiter (1976)
Personnel
birthday November 24, 1946
place of birth Enkhuizen ,  Netherlands
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1957-1964 vv DINDUA
1964-1967 FC Volendam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1971 FC Volendam 79 (0)
1971-1977 RSC Anderlecht 179 (0)
1977-1983 RWD Molenbeek 185 (0)
1983-1984 K Beerschot VAC 23 (0)
1984-1985 Royal Antwerp 22 (0)
1985-1986 DIV V Ternat
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1976 Netherlands 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Ternat en Lembeek
Berchem Sport
KV Kortrijk (assistant)
Eendracht Aalst (assistant)
1 Only league games are given.

Jan Ruiter (born November 24, 1946 in Enkhuizen ) is a Dutch former football goalkeeper who was active as a professional, especially in the first Belgian division . He won the European Cup Winners' Cup with RSC Anderlecht in 1976 and was a member of the Dutch national team during this time .

Club career

Enkhuizen and Volendam, until 1971

Ruiter laid the foundation stone for his career as a goalkeeper on the cemetery wall of his hometown on the IJsselmeer : he pushed balls in front of the stones and caught them when they rebounded; he threw balls back through his legs and snapped them in front of an imaginary goal line - "I must have practiced this a thousand times," he said later. At the age of ten he joined an association for the first time, the vv DINDUA in Enkhuizen; at seventeen he moved to FC Volendam . Here he could not prevail at first and was already toying with the idea of ​​hanging up his football boots. But he persevered and was finally able to play his way into the first team. He rose to the Eredivisie in 1967 with het other Oranje , the team that appeared in an orange dress like the national team . The North Holland was able to hold onto the top division for two seasons; in the second season, Ruiter was number one in goal. After relegation in 1969, direct resurgence followed in 1970. Another year as a regular goalkeeper in the honor division, coach Georg Keßler drew attention to Ruiter, who brought him to RSC Anderlecht in 1971 for a transfer fee of 650,000 guilders .

RSC Anderlecht, 1971 to 1977

Jan Ruiter (left) with Piet Schrijvers (1976)

The 1971/72 season marked the beginning of the successful era for the Belgian club. Keßler built around the old stars Julien Kialunda and Georges Heylens in defense and Paul Van Himst and the Dutchman Jan Mulder on the offensive with the new purchases Ruiter, his compatriot Rob Rensenbrink , the Belgians Jean Dockx , Jan Verheyen - who has just won the VAC Cup with Beerschot was - and the 17-year-old striker François Vander Elst , who was slowly introduced to the first team from his own youth, created a new team that won the double at the end of the season . In the following season, Anderlecht parted ways with Keßler, but under interim coach Hippolyte Van den Bosch the team won the cup again. With Urbain Braems in charge, Anderlecht and Ruiter were able to win another championship in the 1973/74 season and win the cup again in 1975.

In the summer of 1975, the Dutch coach Hans Croon took over the team. With him, two other Dutchmen, Peter Ressel and Arie Haan , as well as Franky Vercauteren joined the team, which won the Belgian Cup for the fourth time in five years and in the 1975/76 European Cup Winners' Cup - with two victories over Sachsenring Zwickau in the semifinals - up to advanced to the final. Ruiter suffered two goals in the final against West Ham United in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , but in the end the Belgians clearly won 4-2 - the final whistle of this game was one of his fondest memories, Ruiter said later.

In the games for the European Supercup , almost four months later, against FC Bayern Munich , Gerd Müller scored three goals against Ruiter; but Anderlecht finally secured the title with a safe 4-1 win in the second leg. At that time, Raymond Goethals , previously coach of the Belgian national team , had already taken on the role of coach at the RSCA. With him, Ruiter fell out and was even temporarily banned from within the club. How important it was, however, became apparent when Goethals quickly lifted the barriers again and again. Ruiter got his second European Cup final , which was lost 2-0 in the final minutes due to a penalty from Schorsch Volkert and a goal from Felix Magath .

RWD Molenbeek, Beerschot and Antwerp, 1977 to 1985

For the 1977/1978 season, Ruiter moved to RWD Molenbeek . The Brussels club had just celebrated its greatest international success with reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup , which could not be repeated in the following season with Ruiter; Already in the second round came after two 1-1 draws against FC Carl Zeiss Jena on penalties. Until 1983 Ruiter played for RWDM under coaches such as Cor Brom and his former RSCA teammate Jean Dockx at RWDM, after which he was active for another year at Beerschot VAC and Royal Antwerp .

Stations

in men's football

National team

During his time in Volendam, Jan Ruiter was appointed to the Dutch national youth teams. In 1976 he was part of the Dutch national team and sat in several games as second goalkeeper behind Piet Schrijvers on the bench, including at the 1976 European Championship in Yugoslavia. Ruiter was only used once in Oranje : in the first game under the new bond coach Jan Zwartkruis after the European Championship. In the World Cup qualifier in and against Iceland on September 8, 1976, he stood in the 1-0 victory for the entire 90 minutes between the posts. After that, Zwartkruis renounced him. The reason, as it later turned out, was the dispute with RSCA trainer Goethals, which Ruiter heavily criticized in a newspaper interview in early 1977. Goethals and Anderlecht President Constant Vanden Stock then put Zwartkruis under pressure: If he fielded Ruiter, the RSCA would not give Rensenbrink and Haan a clearance for the Elftal .

Trainer

After his active career, Ruiter went back to his learned profession, but also worked as a coach at a smaller club in Belgium, Ternat en Lembeek. Later he was the coach of the second division Berchem Sport and assistant coach at KV Kortrijk and Eendracht Aalst .

successes

After the active career

In addition to his work as a trainer, he worked again in his learned profession as a carpenter . In 1990 he gave up football completely and went back to the Netherlands to work in construction. He stayed out of talks about football, didn't want the young employees to find out about his career with the highlights of the European Cup and the national team, because they no longer had any respect:

"When a colleague once mentioned that I played for Anderlecht, one of those young boys said that I should have known his father, because he would have played for Real Madrid once ."

family

His nephew Robbin Ruiter (* 1987) is also a soccer goalkeeper. He has been playing for FC Utrecht since 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at elfvoetbal
personal data
SURNAME Ruiter, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Enkhuizen