Jan van Schijndel

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Jan van Schijndel (1951)

Jan van Schijndel (March 4, 1927 - February 28, 2011 ) was a Dutch football player .

Career

Van Schijndel played his entire active career, from 1945 to 1960, with the Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging , but in recent years in the amateur team. With the SVV, the outside runner was Dutch champion in 1949 and then won the Supercup .

In the year of the SVV championship, van Schijndel was appointed to the national team for the first time . He made his debut in Orange on March 13, 1949 in midfield alongside Ajax player Joop Stoffelen and behind the gouden binnentrio , the golden trio in the Dutch storm: Abe Lenstra , Kees Rijvers and Faas Wilkes ; the game at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam against Belgium ended 3: 3. With the national team van Schijndel took part in the 1952 Olympic Games , but was not used in the only game in Turku in the 1: 5 defeat against Brazil . By 1955 he had 17 international matches in the Oranje jersey, in which he scored a goal - the 4-0 in a 4-1 win in Helsinki against Finland in June 1949 -. In his last three international matches in 1954 and 1955, he acted as team captain . In 1959 he completed another game in Orange against Italy with the amateur national team .

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