Jos Hooiveld

Jos Hooiveld ( born April 22, 1983 in Zeijen, Drenthe) is a Dutch football player. The defender, who was active in his career in the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Scotland, won the 2008 Inter Turku with the Finnish championship and 2009 with the Swedish AIK Double league and National Cup. He plays since 2011 in England at Southampton FC.

Career

Hooiveld began playing football at the Sportvereniging Zeyen. About Achilles 1894, LTC BVO Emmen Assen and he came to the youth department of SC Heerenveen. In May 2003, he came in a 5-1 away win over Willem II Tilburg to his debut in the Eredivisie, when he came on as a substitute just before the game ends for the Swede Petter Hansson. In the following season he established himself in the squad of Erstligamannschaft and staggered between starting and bench. When he was 05 did not come in the first half of the season in the 2004 / deployment, he left the club in February 2005 on loan to FC Zwolle direction to replace the injured Remco Schol there. In the Dutch second division club he belonged to the permanent staff and denied in one and a half years 45 league games.

In the summer of 2006 Hooiveld moved abroad for the first time and played half a year for the SV Kapfenberg. For the club from Styria, he played 14 games in the second class first division, before his compatriot Job Dragtsma steered him in early 2007 to Finland to Inter Turku. Under the Dutch coach, he developed into one of the best players in the First Division and was in the 2008 with three goals in 23 games this season for winning the Finnish Championship title at.

In November 2008 Hooiveld announced his resignation from the Finnish champions and joined the Swedish Allsvenskan AIK to. At the Club from Solna, he signed a three-year contract. Here he established himself with the back number " 20" as a regular force in the defensive line. By the end of the season he came in 28 of the 30 league games for use and thus contributed significantly to the profit of the Lennart Johansson - Cup for the Swedish championship in. On 7 November, he was also with the team in the Cup final, which was won by a 2-0 win over IFK Gothenburg.

During the winter break 2009/2010 Hooiveld moved for a transfer fee of about 18 million Swedish crowns in the Scottish Premier League Celtic Glasgow, where he signed a contract with three and a half years duration.

In January 2011 Hooiveld was loaned to FC Copenhagen after being down at Celtic so far not been able to prevail. Danish first division side also had a purchase option, drew this, however. For the 2011/12 season, the Dutchman was again awarded and joined the English second division side FC Southampton, at the end of 2011, he was then fully "The Saints" transferred. With the team, he was promoted to the Premier League in the summer of 2012.