Jan van Deinsen

Jan van Deinsen (born June 19, 1953 in Tiel, Gelderland) is a retired football midfielder and forward from the Netherlands.

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Deinsen, not Deinsen.
Jan van Deinsen
Personal information
Full name Jan van Deinsen
Date of birth (1953-06-19) June 19, 1953
Place of birth Tiel, Netherlands
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
TSV Theole
NEC Nijmegen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1974 NEC 59 (9)
1974–1976 Go Ahead Eagles 53 (7)
1976–1983 Feyenoord 164 (23)
Total 276 (39)
National team
1980 Netherlands 1 (0)
Teams managed
1989–1990 Nigeria (assistant)
1990 Achilles '29
1991–1992 TOP Oss (assistant)
1995–1996 NAC (assistant)
1997–2000 TOP Oss (technical dir)
2000–2002 Go Ahead Eagles (assistant)
2002–2003 Babberich
2003–2004 MVV
2004–2005 Vitesse (assistant)
2006–2008 Trinidad and Tobago (assistant)
2008–2009 JVC Cuijk
2009–2010 Vitesse (assistant)
2010–2012 JVC Cuijk
2012–2013 Achilles '29
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3] In 2003 he was named manager of Eerste Divisie club MVV,[4] only to leave them in February 2004.[5]

He was appointed manager of Achilles '29 in July 2012 after leaving the amateurs of JVC Cuijk.[6]

Honours

Club

Feyenoord

References
  1. Career stats – Feyenoord-Online
  2. Intl career stats – EU Football
  3. Strijder liep alleen maar tegen muren op – NRC (in Dutch)
  4. Jan van Deinsen nieuwe coach MVV – Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  5. Jan van Deinsen stapt op bij MVV – Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  6. Jan van Deinsen nieuwe trainer Achilles ’29 Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine – De Groesbeek (in Dutch)
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