Full name Jan van Deinsen 1971-1974 NEC Nijmegen Place of birth Tiel, Netherlands Name Jan Deinsen | Playing position Role Football player Years Team Position Midfielder | |
Date of birth (1953-06-19) June 19, 1953 (age 62) | ||
T&T Olympic team coach Jan Van Deinsen interview before Cuba
Jan van Deinsen (born June 19, 1953 in Tiel, Gelderland) is a retired football midfielder and forward from the Netherlands.
Contents
- TT Olympic team coach Jan Van Deinsen interview before Cuba
- Club
- International
- Managerial career
- References
Club
The left-sided midfielder from Wamel made his professional debut for NEC on 12 September 1971 against SC Telstar and also played for Go Ahead Eagles, before joining Dutch giants Feyenoord for whom he would play 7 years. He won the 1979–80 KNVB Cup with the club, but he had to quit football in 1984 due to injuries of his achilles tendon.
International
He obtained one cap for the Dutch national team, when the Netherlands lost to the Republic of Ireland on September 10, 1980 in Dublin.
Managerial career
After retiring as a player, van Deinsen coached amateur sides Babberich and JVC Cuijk and was assistant at several professional clubs as well as to fellow Dutch managers Clemens Westerhof at Nigeria and Wim Rijsbergen at Trinidad and Tobago. In 2003 he was named manager of Eerste Divisie club MVV, only to leave them in February 2004.
He was appointed manager of Achilles '29 in July 2012 after leaving the amateurs of JVC Cuijk..
Club
Feyenoord