Joop Lankhaar

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Lankhaar (left) hires the national team (1987)

Jacob "Joop" Lankhaar (born September 12, 1966 in Alphen aan den Rijn ) is a Dutch former football player . He was a professional in the Eredivisie and in the Belgian First Division and made an international match with the Dutch national team .

Club career

Lankhaar began his career with the amateurs of SV ARC in his hometown of Alphen. In the 1984/85 season he made his first games as a professional in the Eerste Divisie at FC Den Haag . The Vorstopper quickly became a regular in the team around veteran Martin Jol and rose to the Eredivisie with FC after two years. With the Hague he reached the KNVB Cup final in 1987 , in which Ajax Amsterdam only got the upper hand after the extension. Since the Ajaziden won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the same year and took part in the next competition as defending champions, The Hague also qualified for the European Cup , in which Lankhaar played all four games against Újpesti Dózsa and the BSC Young Boys . In 1988 he moved to Belgium for KRC Mechelen . With the Mechlins he was relegated after two seasons, but remained loyal to the club for another three seasons in the second division before he played first class again for two years at Lierse SK from 1993 to 1995 ; in the last season there he was only used twice under coach Eric Gerets . He went back to the Netherlands for the second division club Dordrecht'90 , where he ended his active career after four years as a leading player in 1999 due to knee problems. In total, he played 59 first and 142 second division games in the Netherlands and 90 first division games in Belgium; in these games he scored a total of six goals.

National team

Lankhaar was part of Bondscoach Rinus Michels ' squad for the first time in 1987 in the replay against Cyprus in the European Championship qualification on December 9, 1987 , but was only used a week later, on December 16, 1987, in the last group game against Greece in Rhodes . Lankhaar had to move to the unfamiliar right-back position alongside Ronald Koeman and Sjaak Troost . Against a Greek B-Elf, which had no chance of qualifying, the Dutch won 3-0 under the direction of the German referee Dieter Pauly . Although he played a respectable game, it was Lankhaar's only one in the Oranje shirt. For the squad of the eventual European champions , Michels preferred the more experienced Wim Koevermans , who was not used in Germany either. Lankhaar also disappeared from the field of vision of the national team when he moved to Belgium.

After the active time

Lankhaar initially stayed as a youth coach at FC Dordrecht. From 2006 he became the head coach of the amateurs of SV Bodegraven. His main job is for a road construction company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lankhaars European Cup balance sheet ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at voetbalstats.nl @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voetbalstats.nl
  2. ↑ Number of games and goals in the Netherlands according to profile at Voetbal International ; Number of Belgian first division games according to Belgium Soccer History ; the number of second division games in Belgium could not be determined.
personal data
SURNAME Lankhaar, Joop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lankhaar, Jacob (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Alphen aan den Rijn