Jetro Willems

Willems in September 2011

Jetro Willems ( born March 30, 1994, Rotterdam) is a Dutch footballer who is since 2011 at PSV Eindhoven under contract. The defender is primarily used as a left defender.

Association

Willems began his professional career at Sparta Rotterdam, where he came to his first race in the Eerste Divisie on 16 January 2011. In the game against Go Ahead Eagles Deventer he was in the starting lineup. On 31 August 2011, he moved to PSV Eindhoven, where he signed a three-year contract. There he made ​​his debut on 23 October 2011 in the Eredivisie, as he came off the bench in the game against Vitesse Arnhem. In April 2012 he extended his contract until 2016.

National

Willems participated with the Dutch Under-17 national team at the Under-17 European Championship 2011, where he won the title. In May 2012, he was appointed by Bond coach Bert van Marwijk in the squad of the Dutch team for the 2012 European Championship and came in the preseason game against Bulgaria on its first international match. Willems took the place of his squad teammate Erik Pieters, who can not attend due to a metatarsal fracture. With its use in the first group match against Denmark, he is the ever aground at 18 years and 71 days, the youngest player in a European Championship and solved in this ranking, the Belgian Enzo Scifo from. Overall, he came at the European Championships in all three games for the " Oranje " was used.