Glenn Loovens

Glenn Loovens ( born September 22, 1983 in Doetinchem ) is a Dutch football player. Since 2013 he is at Sheffield Wednesday under contract.

Club career

Loovens was born in Doetinchem, but grew up in Rotterdam, where he, together with his six year old brother Ivo at HOV / DJSCR Rotterdam began as a four year old to play soccer. The former FC Twente player Hans Loovens The son changed to twelve years in the youth of Feyenoord, where he played, among others, together with Robin van Persie. The Rotterdam club was also his first professional station. In the Eredivisie the central defender made ​​his debut on 25 November 2001, coach Bert van Marwijk against Willem II, but could not prevail in the first team, since van Marwijk the experienced Patrick Paauwe preferred. At the UEFA Cup final in 2002, he could not attend because he had suffered a concussion in a collision with NAC player Orlando Engelaar. At the beginning of the next season a knee injury threw him back on, and so he came to the first two seasons until 2003 only 20 missions. In the 2003 /04 season Loovens was first borrowed and made 22 appearances for the local rivals Excelsior in the Eerste Divisie. The following season he came under new coach Ruud Gullit initially in six games at Feyenoord for use before he was loaned out for the rest of the season to newly promoted De Graafschap from Doetinchem city of his birth. Straight back down the Grafschafter he could not prevent.

For the 2005/06 season brought him Cardiff City in the second English League, also initially on loan. In the Welsh Loovens could earn a regular place in the defense in the shortest possible time next captain Darren Purse. His robust style of play earned him the nickname The Terminator. Cardiff bought him from Feyenoord for the 2006/07 season. Three seasons remained Loovens total at the Welsh, for he stood in exactly 100 league games on the court and with whom he 2008 FA Cup final reached before moving to Celtic in August 2008. After four years in Scotland, he moved to Spain where he plays for Real Zaragoza since 2012.

National

Loovens has already been used in his first professional season in the trained Foppe de Haan U -21 KNVB. In August 2009, he was appointed his former Feyenoord coach van Marwijk, meanwhile Bondscoach, surprisingly in the advanced and on August 28, 2009 in the final squad of the national team for a friendly match against Japan and the last World Cup qualifying match against Scotland. In the 3-0 victory against Japan on September 5 in Enschede he gave as Eljero Elia and goalkeeper Piet Velthuizen his debut in Oranje.

Achievements

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 2002 ( Feyenoord )
• Scottish Cup Winners' Cup: 2011 ( with Celtic)
• Scottish League Cup Winners: 2009 ( with Celtic)