Regi Blinker

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Regi Blinker
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Personnel
Surname Reginald Waldie Blinker
birthday 4th June 1969
place of birth Paramaribo ,  Suriname
size 173 cm
position Left winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1988 Feyenoord Rotterdam 25 (2)
1988-1989 →  FC Den Bosch  (loan) 25 (6)
1989-1995 Feyenoord Rotterdam 187 (42)
1996-1997 Sheffield Wednesday 42 (3)
1997-2000 Celtic Glasgow 43 (9)
2000-2001 RBC Roosendaal 22 (5)
2001-2003 Sparta Rotterdam 30 (1)
2003-2004 Deltasport Vlaardingen
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1994 Netherlands 3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Reginald "Regi" Waldie Blinker (born June 4, 1969 in Paramaribo , Suriname ) is a Surinamese- Dutch former football player . He won the championship once with Feyenoord and the KNVB Cup four times . With Celtic FC from Glasgow he won the Scottish Championship once ; in the Premier League he was active at Sheffield Wednesday . He made three international matches with the Dutch national team .

Club career

Director Blinker (1986)

Blinker was born in Suriname. A short time later, his parents moved with him to the Netherlands. At the age of six he started playing soccer in Delft . His first club in youth was Delfia ; a little later he switched to DHC Delft , from where he came to Rotterdam in the youth of Feyenoord . For the 1986/87 season he was appointed to the first team and made his debut in the Eredivisie on August 17, 1986 under coach Rinus Israël against PEC Zwolle . In De Kuip , the left winger came on the field in the 73rd minute for Lars Elstrup to join his strike partners René Hofman and Simon Tahamata . His only goal in the 21 games of his first professional season he scored on September 21, 1981 with the hit to 3-1 in a 5-1 win over local rivals Excelsior . In his second season at Feyenoord, he scored two goals in 25 games. In the following season 1988/89 he received with Włodzimierz Smolarek new competition in his regular position and made only one match for Feyenoord before he was loaned to BVV Den Bosch in September . With the Herzogenbusch , he met his actual employer in the second game - and scored the second goal for Den Bosch's 2-0 victory. It was the first of six goals he scored in 25 league games for the North Brabants; after the season he returned to Feyenoord.

Blinker conquered under the coaching duo Pim Verbeek and Gunder Bengtsson in the season 1989/90 the regular place of the twelve years older Smolarek. A successful time began for Feyenoord and Blinker: in 1991 and 1992 they won the KNVB Cup , in 1993 the team under coach Willem van Hanegem became champions , not least thanks to 13 goals Blinker and 18 goals from Hungarian center forward József Kiprich . In 1994 a second place in the championship and another cup victory followed. In 1995, the team won their fourth cup in five years and finished fourth in the championship. After indicators eleven games in the UEFA Cup had finished, he reached the Rotterdamern in the 1991/92 semi-final in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup , in which they are to 1: 2 because of: 1 and 2 away goals of AS Monaco beaten had to.

After van Hanegem's dismissal, Arie Haan took over the team in 1995. Blinker and Rob Witschge had serious problems with him ; Haan saw the two of them as “notorious atmospheres poisoners” with “bad influence on young players”, accused both players of indiscipline and lack of motivation and relegated them to the second team in November. The arbitration tribunal of the KNVB later determined that both could participate in the training again. While Witschge waited for this verdict and then reintegrated into the team (he only switched to FC Utrecht for the next season ), Blinker had enough of Haan and Feyenoord and went to England in the Premier League at Sheffield Wednesday after the winter break . Here he was able to integrate in the second half of 1995/96 and won a regular place for the new season 1996/97, in which his former Rotterdam team-mate Orlando Trustfull joined him .

For the 1997/98 season Blinker signed with the Scottish Celtic FC in Glasgow , with which he became champions; he himself was only able to contribute one goal in 13 league games due to injuries. Also in the two following years he was plagued by injuries and could only appear 30 times for Celtic in the league; at the end of the 1999/2000 season, his contract was not renewed. After half a year without a contract, he joined RBC Roosendaal during the winter break of 2000/01 , who was relegated despite his engagements. After the season he went back to Rotterdam to Sparta , where he was again plagued by injuries and also had to go to the Eerste Divisie after a season . Here he made eight games in the second division, the last of which on November 29, 2002, before ending his professional career after 400 games in 17 years. However, he then competed a few more times in the amateur area for delta sports .

National team

Blinker made his debut in the Dutch Elftal during his best time in Rotterdam on March 24, 1993. Like Erik Meijer, he was in the starting line-up of the Oranje- Elf for the first time in the World Cup qualifier against San Marino in Utrecht (after the half-time break, Ronald also came de Boer for his first international match). Blinker played 69 minutes before being substituted for Peter van Vossen . “I was pretty nervous,” he said later, “taking a ball the wrong way, a shot that went centimeters past the goal - you relive such moments again and again later. When the ball but had gone in, how could my international career then look like? "

For the next game in Wembley against England Bondscoach Dick Advocaat did not consider him, but in the subsequent 0-0 in de Kuip against Norway he was there for the full 90 minutes. Once again, in the friendly match in Tunisia on January 19, 1994, he was allowed to put on the Oranje shirt. After that, Advocaat decided not to include Blinker in the squad for the World Cup in the USA . But he is still proud of his three international matches 16 years later: “In my office there is a nice poster with the team that played against Norway: Bergkamp , Jonk , Rijkaard , Overmars , Koeman . But probably a nice team in which you are right in the middle of it! "

successes

After the active time

Blinker worked after the end of his playing career as a scout and player agent. Since 2006 he has been the editor of the quarterly lifestyle magazine Life After Football . At first it was not available in free trade, but was aimed specifically at former football professionals. At the end of 2009, it had a circulation of 45,000 and a female audience, LAFly .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feyenoord breekt Witschge tot de grond toe af ( memento from September 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), De Volkskrant from February 13, 1996
  2. ↑ "Een bal verkeerd aannemen, een schot voor het doel dat centimeters voor slowly went. Later beleef je zo'n cruciaal moment steeds weer opnieuw. When the bal er tóch in what gaan, hoe zou mijn interlandcarrière er dan hebben uitgezien? “, 'As the bal er tóch in was gaan' ( memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), interview on the OnsOranje website of the KNVB dated February 10, 2009
  3. ↑ "Op mijn kantoor hangt a mooie poster met daarop de selectie die speelde tegen Noorwegen. Bergkamp, ​​Jonk, Rijkaard, Overmars, Koeman. Toch wel een aardig team waar jij dan tussen state! "," As the bal er tóch in was Gegaan " ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), interview on the OnsOranje website of the KNVB from February 10, 2009
  4. ↑ Ex-profs na hun carrière - Regi Blinker ( Memento from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), ProProf from January 23, 2008
  5. ↑ http://www.lifeafterfootball.nl/pdf/LAF magazine 2010.pdf (link not available)
  6. ↑ Bladformule: LAFly - Life After Football / Women
personal data
SURNAME Blinker, Regi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blinker, Reginald Waldie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Paramaribo