Timothy van der Meulen
Timothy van der Meulen (born 2 March 1990 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football player who is under contract with the Dutch second division club De Graafschap since the 2012/13 season.
Career
Association
Van der Meulen was born in 1990 in Amsterdam and began at the age of seven years at the small SV CTO'70 from the Amsterdam suburb Duivendrecht playing football. It was followed by several years at the clubs SV and FC Omniworld Almere in the neighboring city of Almere, before he moved back to Amsterdam and the renowned youth department of AFC Ajax in 2006. From 2008 it belonged to the team Jong Ajax, the second team of Ajax Amsterdam on.
Beginning of 2010, van der Meulen joined on loan to the Dutch second division club HFC Haarlem to play matches. On 22 January 2010, he made his debut against Excelsior Rotterdam in the Jupiler League. The club announced shortly thereafter filed for bankruptcy and was dissolved. After just a game of van der Meulen returned then back to Amsterdam. In February 2011, he joined the Scottish first division club Dundee United. There he completed six games in the Premier League, the first on 19 February 2011 against Heart of Midlothian, and a further use in the play-offs. After his contract end in the summer of 2011, he coached the sample with the first division club Roda JC Kerkrade.
For the season 2011/12 van der Meulen moved to Bayern Munich, for their second team, he was active in the Regionalliga Süd under coach Andries Jonker. He made his debut on August 8, 2011 (1st Round ) 2-2 away draw against 1 FC Nuremberg II His first goal for Bayern he scored 27 August 2011 (4th Round ) for 2 :1- victory in the away match against SV Waldhof Mannheim reduce the deficit to intermediate 1:1 in the 77th minute.
After the season, he joined the Dutch second division club De Graafschap Doetinchem VBV.
National
Van der Meulen played nine times for the Dutch U-17 national team, for whom he scored a goal. Among them were the three group matches against England, Belgium and Iceland at the U- 17 European Championship 2007 in Belgium. Also for the U-18 national team, he came to three inserts.