Joop Lankhaar

Jacob " Joop " Lankhaar ( born September 12, 1966 in Alphen aan den Rijn ) is a Dutch former football player. He has worked as a professional in the Eredivisie and in the Belgian First Division and made an international with the Dutch national team.

Club career

Lankhaar began his career in the amateurs of SV ARC in his home town of Alphen. In the 1984/85 season he made his first games as a professional in the Eerste Divisie for FC Den Haag. The Vorstopper quickly became a regular player on the team to veteran Martin Jol and rose with FC after two years in the Eredivisie. With the Haagern he reached in 1987, the KNVB Cup final, in which Ajax Amsterdam after the extension had the upper hand. Since the Ajaziden in the same year won the European Cup Winners' Cup and participated as defending champion at the next competition, The Hague also qualified for the European Cup, in the Lankhaar all four games against Újpesti Dózsa and BSC Young Boys mitmachte. In 1988 he moved to Belgium to KRC Mechelen. With the Mechel Africans he dismounted after two seasons, but remained the club for another three seasons in the second division faithful before he again played two years class 1993-1995 at Lierse SK; in the last season where he came under coach Eric Gerets but only twice used. He went back to the Dutch second division Dordrecht'90, in which he trailed off as a leading player in 1999 because of knee problems his career after four years. In total he played 59 first-and second-division games 142 in the Netherlands and 90 top-flight appearances in Belgium; in these games, he scored a total of six goals.

National

Lankhaar was in 1987 at the replay against Cyprus in the European Championship qualifier on December 9, 1987 for the first time the squad of Rinus Michels Bondscoach, however, came only a week later, on 16 December 1987, the last group match against Greece in Rhodes used. Lankhaar had to move to the unfamiliar right-back position alongside Ronald Koeman and Sjaak Troost. For a Greek B-team that had no chance of qualifying more, the Dutch won under the leadership of the German referee Dieter Pauly 3-0. Although he made a respectable game, it remained Lankhaars single in the Orange jersey. For the cadre of the later European Champion Michels preferred the more experienced Wim Koevermans, who however did not play in Germany. Even his move to Belgium Lankhaar disappeared from view after the national team.

After the active time

Lankhaar initially remained as a youth coach for FC Dordrecht. From 2006 he was head coach of the amateurs of SV Bodegraven. His main job is working for a road construction company.