Full name Tom Jan Hiariej Name Tom Hiariej Current team SC Cambuur | Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |
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Date of birth (1988-07-25) July 25, 1988 (age 27) Place of birth Winschoten, Netherlands | ||
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You've Gotta Have A Team 2017/18 – Tom Hiariej talks music, The Eagles
Tom Jan Hiariej (; born 25 July 1988) is a Dutch-Indonesian footballer who currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League.
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Biography
The son of a Moluccan father and a Dutch mother, he made his professional first team debut in 2007 with Eredivisie side FC Groningen under long-time head coach Ron Jans.
Hiarej is also a Dutch youth international; he played a number of matches for several youth teams. He was also part of the Dutch U-17 team, who ended up third in the World Cup for Under 17 in Peru in 2005.
Netherlands U-17 coach, Ruud Kaiser was very impressed by the young defender. Before the youth FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru, Kaiser said this about Hiariej:
In the match against NEC Nijmegen (23 January 2008), Tom Hiariej scored his first top-flight goal for FC Groningen.
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FC Groningen