Piet Velthuizen

Piet Velthuizen
Personnel
Surname	Piet Hubertus Velthuizen
birthday	3rd November 1986
place of birth	Nijmegen , the  Netherlands
size	189 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	SCE
	Quick Nijmegen
0000-2006	Vitesse / AGOVV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2010	Vitesse Arnhem	107 (0)
2010-2011	Hércules Alicante	3 (0)
2011-2016	Vitesse Arnhem	108 (0)
2016-2017	Hapoel Haifa	27 (0)
2017	Omonia Nicosia	9 (0)
2018–	AZ Alkmaar	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007-2008	Netherlands U-21	8 (0)
2008-2009	Netherlands B	3 (0)
2009	Netherlands	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: January 26, 2019

Piet Hubertus Velthuizen (born November 3, 1986 in Nijmegen ) is a Dutch football goalkeeper .

Club career

Velthuizen played in Quick's youth in 1888 in his hometown of Nijmegen before moving to SBV Vitesse in Arnhem . He signed a professional contract with the Arnhem team for the 2006/07 season . On December 31, 2006, he made his debut in the Eredivisie . The game at Heracles Almelo ended 2-2. Since regular goalkeeper Harald Wapenaar moved to Sparta Rotterdam during the winter break and new signing Vladimir Stojković was not yet eligible to play, Velthuizen initially received the trust of coach Aad de Mos , but had to clear the goal after seven games for Stojković, who had been loaned from FC Nantes . For the 2007/08 season de Mos appointed him the goalkeeper. In 66 games this season and the following, he remained clean 18 times. By the end of the 2009/10 season he had 107 Eredivisie appearances for Vitesse.

After the club was taken over by the Georgian investor Merab Schordania , Velthuizen moved to Hércules Alicante for the 2010/11 season . When he was promoted to the first division, he signed a four-year contract. Since July 2011 he has been back in the Netherlands with SBV Vitesse, but could not participate in the first games of the 2011/12 Eredivisie season because Hércules has not yet given him a clearance. The club would only be willing to do this if Velthuizen waived outstanding salary claims.

National team

Velthuizen was part of the squad of the U-21 national team coached by Foppe de Haan in the 2007/08 season . He was used three times in friendly games and in a match in the European Championship qualification (against Macedonia), but ultimately had to give Kenneth Vermeer the regular place in goal. He was also part of the Dutch team at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but had to be satisfied with the role of the substitute. In March 2008 he was invited to the senior national team for the first time ; he sat on the bench at the EM preparatory game against Austria in Vienna after Edwin van der Sar and Maarten Stekelenburg had canceled. On September 5, 2009 he came to his first assignment in Orange . After Stekelenburg was out due to an injury, the regular second goalkeeper Michel Vorm and Velthuizen were each allowed to play one half in the friendly against Japan .

Web links

Commons : Piet Velthuizen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Piet Velthuizen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Velthuizens profile on the Vitesse-Arnhem website
• Profile at Ronald's Voetbalstatistieken
• Piet Velthuizen fan website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Vlieger: Definitely: Velthuizen tekent bij Hercules Alicante ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2010 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. , goal.com on August 24, 2010, viewed September 28, 2010 
2. ↑ Velthuizen doorstaat keuring, blessure Pedersen valt mee ( Memento of August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Vitesse's website of July 27, 2011
3. ^ Vitesse nog altijd zonder Room en Velthuizen , Voetbal primeur of August 19, 2011
4. ↑ Staking Spaans voetbal vorbij , NU.nl of August 25, 2011
5. ↑ Game data  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the KNVB website