Jan Ruiter

January Ruiter (* November 24, 1946 in Enkhuizen ) is a Dutch former football goalkeeper, who was as a professional, especially in the Belgian first division active. With the RSC Anderlecht, he won the 1976 European Cup Winners' Cup and was in the squad this time the Dutch national team.

Club career

Enkhuizen and Volendam, to 1971

The foundation for his goalkeeper career Ruiter lay at the cemetery wall of his home town on the IJsselmeer: he dashed balls before the stones and caught her in rebounding; he threw balls through the legs back and snapped it in no time before an imaginary goal line - " I have thousands of times the have been practicing, " he said later. With ten years he joined a club for the first time at which vv DINDUA in Enkhuizen; at seventeen he moved to FC Volendam. Here he could not initially prevail and already played with the idea to hang the football boots on the nail. But he persisted and finally was able to play in the first team. With other het Oranje, on how the national accruing in orange Dress team, he rose in 1967 in the Eredivisie. Two seasons, the Northern Dutch were able to keep in the top division; in the second season Ruiter was the number one goal. After the relegation followed in 1969, 1970, the direct re- ascent. Another year as a goalkeeper in the Eredivisie made ​​coach Georg Kessler attention to Ruiter, who for a fee of 650,000 guilders in 1971 brought him to RSC Anderlecht.

RSC Anderlecht, 1971-1977

The 1971/72 season was the beginning of a successful era of the Belgian club. Kessler rebuilt the veterans Julien Kialunda and Georges Heylens in defense and Paul Van Himst and Dutchman Jan Mulder on the offensive with the Neueinkäufen Ruiter, his compatriot Rob Rensenbrink, the Belgians Jean Dockx Jan Verheyen - the just become with Beerschot VAC Cup Winners was - and slowly brought up from their own youth to the first team 17 -year-old striker François Vander Elst a new team, which won the double at the end of the season. In the following season, Anderlecht separated by Kessler, but under interim coach Hippolyte Van den Bosch, the team was re- Cup winner. With Urbain Braems as the person responsible Anderlecht and Ruiter were in the 1973/74 season recorded another championship in 1975 and again the Cup victory.

In the summer of 1975, the Dutch coach Hans Croon took over the team. With him two more Dutch, Peter Ressel and Arie Haan, and Franky Vercauteren came into the team within five years won the Belgian Cup for the fourth time in the European Cup Winners 1975/76 - with two wins over Sachsenring Zwickau in the semifinals - to penetrated into the final. Ruiter had in the final, though suffered two hits in Brussels Heysel Stadium against West Ham United, but ultimately won the Belgian clear 4-2 - the final whistle of the game was one of his fondest memories, Ruiter said later.

In the games to the European Supercup, almost four months later, against Bayern Munich Gerd Müller scored three goals against Ruiter; but Anderlecht secured ultimately by an unchallenged 4-1 win in the return match for the title. At that time already had Raymond Goethals, previously coach of the Belgian national team, took over the coaching reins at RSCA. With him Ruiter fell out and was even temporarily locked within the association. How important it was, but it turned out, as Goethals picked the locks repeatedly quickly. Ruiter came so still to his second European Cup final, but that went through a penalty kick by Schorsch Volkert and lost a goal from Felix Magath in the final minutes with 0:2.

RWD Molenbeek, Beerschot and Antwerp, 1977-1985

For the season 1977/1978 Ruiter switched to RWD Molenbeek. The Brussels-based club had just celebrated the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup 's biggest international success, which could not be repeated in the following season with Ruiter; already in the second round came after two 1-1 draws the off against FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the penalty shootout. By 1983, played Ruiter for the RWDM under trainers such as Cor Brom and his former clubs Star teammate Jean Dockx at RWDM, then he worked for Beerschot VAC and at Royal Antwerp FC for another year.

Stations

In senior football

• FC Volendam (1967-1969 and 1970/71: Eredivisie, 79 Inserts / 0 goals; 1969/70: Eerste divisie )
• RSC Anderlecht (1971-1977, First Division, 179 inserts / 0 goals)
• RWD Molenbeek (1977-1983, First Division, 185 inserts / 0 goals)
• K Beerschot VAC ( 1983/84, First Division, 23 Inserts / 0 goals)
• Royal Antwerp FC ( 1984/85, First Division, 22 Inserts / 0 goals)
• DIV V Ternat ( 1985/86, Unterklassigkeit / Amateur Football)

National

Even in his time in Volendam January Ruiter was appointed in Dutch national youth teams. In 1976 he was part of the Dutch national squad and sat in several games as a second goalkeeper behind Piet Schrijvers on the bench, including at the European Championship 1976 in Yugoslavia. Only once did Ruiter in Oranje used: in the first match under new coach Bond January Zwartkruis after the European Championship. In the World Cup qualifier against Iceland in and on September 8, 1976, he stood in the 1-0 victory the 90 minutes between the posts. Then Zwartkruis cut it. The reason was, as it turned out later, the dispute with Anderlecht coach Goethals, the Ruiter heavily criticized in a newspaper interview in early 1977. Goethals and Anderlecht president Constant Vanden Stock had Zwartkruis then put under pressure: When he lays Ruiter, the RSCA Rensenbrink and Haan would not grant approval for the Oranje.

Coach

Ruiter went to the active career back in his trained profession, but moonlighted as a coach at a smaller club in Belgium, Ternat s Lembeek. Later, he was coach of the second division club Berchem Sport and assistant coach at KV Kortrijk and Eendracht Aalst.

Achievements

• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1976
• UEFA Super Cup: 1976
• Belgian champion: 1972, 1974
• Belgian Cup winners: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976

After the active career

Besides his work as a coach, he worked again in the learned profession as a carpenter. In 1990 he gave the football to completely and went back to the Netherlands to work in construction. He stayed out of discussions about football, did not want the young people learn of his career with the climaxes European Cup victory and national team, because they would have more respect:

"As a colleague once mentioned that I 've played at Anderlecht, so said a young lad yet, then I would be certain to also know his father, who would in fact plays at Real Madrid. "