Rick Geenen

Rick Geenen
Personnel
Surname	Rick Leon Willem Geenen
birthday	August 13, 1988
place of birth	Geleen ,  Netherlands
size	180 cm
position	Full-back , midfielder
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2000	RKFC Lindenheuvel
2000-2007	Fortuna Sittard
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007–2012	Fortuna Sittard	144 (14)
2012-2013	FC Hansa Rostock	7 0(0)
2012-2013	FC Hansa Rostock II	12 0(0)
2013-2014	MVV Maastricht	16 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 2, 2014

Rick Leon Willem Geenen (born August 13, 1988 in Geleen ) is a Dutch football player who is used as a right-footed defensive player, especially as a full-back , but also as a six . Interrupted by a year in Germany at FC Hansa Rostock , he spent his professional career in his home country at Fortuna Sittard and MVV Maastricht .

Career

Youth in Limburg

Born in 1988 in Geleen, which was still independent at the time, Geenen first learned to play football in the youth teams of the RKFC Lindenheuvel from the northwestern part of the city where he was born. From 2000, Geenen went through the youth teams Fortuna Sittards from neighboring Sittard , which one year later was merged with Geelen and other places to form the new town of Sittard-Geleen . In 2007 Geenen finally outgrew the Fortuna youth team and was taken over to the club's professional team.

Beginnings at Fortuna Sittard

The Sittarder team played in the 2007/08 season in the second-rate Eerste Divisie , in which they were initially looked after by Henk Wisman . Geenen initially failed to assert himself against his teammates on Sittard's defense. After Sittard had only scored four points in six league games, Geenen benefited from tactical changes, so that he made his debut in the second-highest division of the Netherlands on matchday seven, on which Sittard faced AGOVV Apeldoorn in September 2007 . Geenen subsequently succeeded in establishing himself permanently in the Fortuna regular formation, so that he was on the starting line-up in all of the team's league games until the turn of the year. In the table, the team occupied 20th and last place at that time, which is why the club had replaced coach Wisman in December 2007 by Roger Reijners . But Geenen remained under this regular player, so that he came to a total of 29 missions in his first second division season. In these, Geenen also contributed with his two goals scored during this season that Sittard was able to advance to 16th place in the table by the end of the second half of the season.

In the first five games of the 2008/09 season, Geenen continued to be part of Fortuna's main line-up before he was out until October 2008 due to an ankle injury. After his recovery, Geenen was unable to regain his regular place, so that he only acted as a substitute in five games in the following weeks. At the beginning of December 2008, Geenen got his regular place back, so that he made another 19 missions by the end of the season and scored two goals for Fortuna, which finally took 15th place in the final table. Geenen then renewed his contract with Sittard, which expired at the end of the season, for two more years.

Also due to several newcomers, including Pieter Nys , Geenen was mostly only part of the starting line-up in away games at the beginning of the 2009/10 season, as trainer Reijners preferred a more offensive approach in home games. After completing the first third of the season, Geenen was again a regular in both home and away games, so that he played a total of 28 appearances during the season, in which he also scored three goals, and thus contributed significantly to Fortuna's relegation for the third time in a row - this time as 17th in the final table. Geenen then renewed his contract with Fortuna, which now had a one-year term and an option to extend it.

For the 2010/11 season, in which the Eerste Divisie was now carried out with 18 instead of the previously participating 20 teams, Sittard hired a new coach with Wim Dusseldorp , from whom, however, no improvement in the sporting performance of Fortuna assumed. The team played against the threatened relegation throughout the season and finally finished 16th in the final table with just one point ahead of the relegation zone. As in the previous season, Geenen had played a total of 28 games and scored three goals in these.

In 2011/12, Sittard continued to play under Dusseldorp in the first half of the season, before Tim Ruys took his place at the beginning of the second half of the season and finally finished eleventh in the final table with the team. Although this was Geenen's most successful season with Sittard, also because he had been able to achieve four goals for the first time in his 29 games this season, he was only used as a substitute in eleven of these games. Geenen then decided to turn down another offer from Fortuna to extend the contract in order to switch to the German FC Hansa Rostock instead .

Move to Germany

Geenen signed a two-year contract with FC Hansa, who started in the 3rd division in the 2012/13 season after relegating from the 2nd Bundesliga . Then he was part of the starting line-up under coach Wolfgang Wolf in seven of eight games, until Wolf was replaced by Marc Fascher due to disappointing results . Geenen was only used by him shortly after he took office in the national cup and subsequently no longer considered for the professional team. Instead, Geenen played until the end of the season exclusively for Hansa's reserve team in the Oberliga Nordost , for which he completed a total of 12 games. For the following season 2013/14 Geenen will be back in Rostock's professional squad under Andreas Bergmann , who is now Fascher's successor .

Return to the Netherlands

After Geenen was only used in the second team at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Geenen canceled his contract in Rostock, which ran until 2014, and moved back to the second Dutch league for MVV Maastricht . There he was initially a regular player and, in addition to 16 league games, also played three games in the KNVB Cup . After the coaching change from Tini Ruijs to Ron Elsen , however, he prematurely terminated his contract and decided to concentrate on his studies first.

Web links

• Rick Geenen in the Voetbal International database
• Rick Geenen in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FC-Hansa.de, June 9, 2012: Hansa brings Rick Geenen second Dutchman , accessed on June 16, 2012
2. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, October 3, 2008: Reijners baalt van 'kaartenregen' Kozarac  ( 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. (Dutch), accessed June 16, 2012  
3. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, June 29, 2009: Fortuna Sittard weet ook Geenen te behouden  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. (Dutch), accessed June 16, 2012  
4. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, July 2, 2010: Fortuna puts Geenen en Facenna long vast  ( 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. (Dutch), accessed June 16, 2012  
5. ↑ Voetbalprimeur.nl, March 30, 2011: Fortuna Sittard wil Liard en Geenen behouden  ( 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. (Dutch), accessed June 16, 2012  
6. ↑ FortunaSittard.nl, June 13, 2012: Rick Geenen kijkt ogen uit bij Hansa Rostock (Dutch), accessed on June 16, 2012
7. ↑ NNN.de , May 11, 2013: Hansa starts the new season with a 23-man squad , accessed on June 12, 2013
8. ↑ MVV.nl, January 21, 2014: Rick Geenen stops per direct bij MVV (Dutch), accessed on July 2, 2014