Jan van Schijndel

Jan van Schijndel (* March 4, 1927, † 28 February 2011) was a Dutch football player.

Career

Van Schijndel played his entire active career, from 1945 to 1960, when Voetbal Vereniging Schiedamse, in recent years, however, in the amateur team. With the SIA of the outrunner 1949 Dutch champion, and then won the Supercup.

In the championship of the SIA van Schijndel was first appointed to the national team. His debut in Oranje he gave on March 13, 1949 midfield alongside Ajax player Joop Stoffelen and behind the gouden within trio, the golden trio in the storm of Dutch: Abe Lenstra, Faas Wilkes and Kees Rijvers; the game at the Olympic Stadium Amsterdam against Belgium ended 3-3. With the national team van Schijndel 1952 took part in the Olympic Games, but did not come in the only game in Turku in the 1:5 defeat to Brazil for use. Until 1955 he came to 17 times in the Orange jersey, where he score - the case of a 4-1 win against Finland in Helsinki in June 1949 4-0 - scored. In his last three international matches in 1954 and 1955, he served as team captain. In 1959 he graduated with the amateur national team another game in the Orange against Italy.