Jean-Paul van Gastel
Jean -Paul van Gastel ( born April 28, 1972 in Breda ) is a former Dutch football player.
Career
Van Gastel began his career as a youth player at first small BSV Boeimeer, later moving to the traditional club NAC Breda.
When he was not shooting at NAC in the professional team, he moved to season 1990/91 to Willem II Tilburg. For Willem II he made his debut on 27 January 1991, the 5-0 victory against FC Den Bosch in the Dutch Eredivisie. As a result he was promoted because of his technical abilities and his dangerous set-pieces for the star of the team. After six successful years, Van Gastel attracted the interest of several clubs on you, which it Willem II made it impossible to keep the crowd favorite.
For the season 1996/97 Van Gastel changed for the equivalent of € 2 million league - internally to Feyenoord Rotterdam. In Rotterdam, he experienced his most successful period. He came to debut in the Dutch national football team, was once Dutch master Johan Cruyff Schaal winner. In 2000 was a momentous injury which should significantly affect his career. It turned out for the rest of the season and was only able to celebrate the 2001/02 season in a Test match his comeback again. Feyenoord had brought in the interim replacement for his position and gave it then to Italy Ternana Calcio in Serie B from.
In Ternana the injury -plagued van Gastel found not to its form and completed only seven games in which he did not succeed in scoring.
Nevertheless, he was transferred to the 2002/03 season per player exchange for Christian Terni in the Serie A Calcio Como. This therefore exchange only came about because the former Como coach wanted to have a specialist for standard situations as a team. However, when he with Denis Godeas and Nikola Lazetić could undertake two more free kicks and penalty specialist, was no more room for van Gastel on the team. He completed a single game for Como, after his contract was dissolved.
Van Gastel found no new club and stayed fit until the winter break at De Graafschap. For the second half of the season 2002/ 03 he was awarded a contract for half a year at De Graafschap. He completed another 13 games in which he scored two goals and finished his career then.
Coaching career
After his professional career, Van Gastel took over from 2004 to 2005 the post as U-19 coach of Willem II Tilburg. On 30 June 2005 he was transferred to the U-19 team coach of Feyenoord Rotterdam, which he supervised until today.
National
On 31 August 1996 he made his debut for the Dutch national football team against Brazil. He came on in the 70th minute for Wim Jonk and was able to record a goal. Interestingly, he also completed his fifth and final match against Brazil. This ended just like his debut with 2:2. Van Gastel came in the 46th minute for Aron Winter.
Overall, he played five games for the Netherlands, where he scored two goals.