André Ooijer
André Ooijer 2008
André Anthony Mary Ooijer (born 11 July 1974 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch football player.
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Career
Association
Ooijer began as a child in Amsterdam's smaller clubs before he was discovered in 1986 by the Scouts of AFC Ajax. After his youth, he did, however, difficult to reconcile with the transition to the first team and was therefore loaned in 1994 to League rival FC Volendam. There he announced on August 28, 1994 his debut in the Eredivisie. In the 3-0 win against Go Ahead Eagles, he was the left-back also equal to his first yellow card. Three weeks later, he scored against SC Heerenveen his first of four goals this season for Volendam. Against his hometown club he stood in December 1994 for the first time on the right back position - against the left edge Ajax with Marc Overmars, Clarence Seedorf and Frank de Boer. After four minutes, three goals had already fallen to 1:2, before half- time ensured a goal Ooijers for the 2-2 draw. He had integrated into Volendam without problems and was the entire season as a regular in the defense in action.
For the following season Ooijer joining Roda JC Kerkrade, the surprise second in the 1994/95 season, according to Kerkrade. Under coach Huub Stevens he was here with Marco van Hoogdalem, Johan de Kock and Roda legend Ger Senden in August 1995 his debut in defense. But it took some time to Ooijer who strove for Stevens ' idea of a defender too much possession and playmaking, prevailed. It was not until October 1995 Stevens sat him regularly. On 31 October 1995 he made his first international competitive match in the second-round second-leg of the UEFA Cup against Benfica. He was promoted in two years under Stevens and his successor Martin Jol to one of the best players in the Roda team. It shifted after the coaching change its position by the defender into ( usually on the right ) midfield. Under Jol, the team won the 1997 KNVB Cup.
During the winter break 1997/98, then took a top club PSV Eindhoven the defensive all-rounder as a replacement for a failed player to Eindhoven. Since then, he was an integral part of the team and had in the years to share in the successes PSV ( five championships, three runner-up, a Cup win, Champions League participations ).
In 2006, Ooijer to England to Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League, where he sat under manager Mark Hughes in central defense against returnees Stéphane Henchoz, but later also played some games on the right of the Swiss. On January 20, 2007 Ooijer retired in the game against Manchester City a broken fibula and tendon tears at the ankle and was sidelined the rest of the season. After his return in the 2007/ 08 season, Hughes sat back his confidence in the Dutchman, who now played mostly as a right defender. Even under Hughes ' successors Paul Ince and Sam Allardyce was Ooijer in the 2008 /09 season regulars, came into this season as 32 league bets. In the game at Everton, he scored 16 August 2008 his first goal in the Premier League; it was the winning goal for 3-2 in the 90th minute. His second and final goal in England brought Blackburn two additional points; He scored it 2-1 against Tottenham Hotspur again just before the final whistle.
For the 2009/10 season he returned to PSV. Coach Fred Rutten, who sat on the right side of the Bulgarians Stanislaw Manolew, Ooijer put back into central defense; here he played alongside Francisco Rodríguez and made a total of 25 league games. His contract, which expired at end of season was not renewed.
In August 2010 he moved to his youth club AFC Ajax, for whom he made his debut in the Eredivisie 21 August 2010 against Roda JC Kerkrade. By March 2012, the reserve player 21 times for Ajax came into use; on 13 March 2012, he announced that he would not extend but to end his career with nearly 38 years at end of season his contract.
National
Although André Ooijer was also nominated for the 1998 World Cup squad for the Dutch national team, his first assignment came in a friendly match only on 5 June 1999. In the following years he was only in occasional inserts and was in any major tournament with it. Only before the football World Cup in 2006, he came back into view and was picked up by coach Marco van Basten in the World Cup squad in the Netherlands. He was in Germany in addition to goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was the only player who experienced all the games of the World Cup kick-off of until the final whistle on the pitch. Also at the European Championships in 2008 he belonged to the squad of the Oranje. He came to three inserts. On 27 May 2010 it Bondscoach Bert van Marwijk called back into the squad for the World Cup in South Africa. At the World Cup he was in the quarter-final match against Brazil in the starting lineup for the injured Joris Mathijsen. This was his last appearance for the Dutch national team.
Achievements
- Dutch champion: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 (PSV Eindhoven ), 2011 (Ajax Amsterdam)
- Dutch Cup Winners' Cup: 2005 (PSV Eindhoven )
- Dutch Supercup: 2000, 2001, 2003 (PSV Eindhoven )
Private
Since October 2009 Ooijer and his wife Joyce, daughter of Willy van de Kerkhof Altinternationalen, parents are one daughter.