Kees van Ierssel
Cornelius " Cees " Claudius Henricus van Ierssel (December 6, 1945 in Breda ) is a former Dutch football player. He helped FC Twente Dutch runners-up once again and Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and reached the final of the UEFA Cup. With the national team, he was runner-up in 1974.
Club career
Van Ierssel played in the 1960s with his brothers in the third-class VV barony from his hometown of Breda, in which his father had already been active. But Cees wanted to go higher and was set in 1969 himself on the transfer list. Coach Kees Rijvers brought the talented player for FC Twente Enschede after. Here he was first in the midfield, then inserted into the center of defense, before he found his place as a right-back. Together with goalkeeper Piet Schrijvers and the defense colleagues Epi Drost, Kalle Oranen and Willem de Vries had the Enscheder a defense that helped FC Twente years to its successful "Golden Seventies ". After fourth in 1970, fifth in 1971 and twice in third place the team in the 1973/74 season was a hair master, only a 2:3 defeat away in De Kuip on one of the last match day against eventual champions Feyenoord prevented the title. In the 1971/72 season the defense to van Ierssel and Drost put this record on, which in 2009 still endures: 13 goals the team received over the season the fewest goals, suffered by a team in the Eredivisie ever.
Internationally made van Ierssel and FC Twente talked about, because in the European cup competitions the Enscheder played a good role in these years. In the Fairs Cup in 1971 they failed in the quarter -finals at Juventus in the UEFA Cup in 1973 only in the semi-finals at Borussia Moenchengladbach. Two years later, van Ierssel stood with Eddy Achterberg and Frans Thijssen, with Arnold Mühren, Epi Drost and Volkmar Groß in the team that ausschaltete in the semifinals Juventus and failed only in the final to Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the same year the team lost the Cup final against FC Den Haag.
Two years after losing the finals it should finally work with a title: on Ascension Day 1977, he played with Twente in Nijmegen in the KNVB Cup final. After 90 minutes into the match against PEC Zwolle 0-0; Twente won 3-0 after extra time. In the following season he reached with the team in the European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in which retired the FC Twente v RSC Anderlecht with two defeats. In total 39 out of 40 UEFA Cup games Ierssel van was there, while in 1973 his only achieved "international" goal against Panahaiki Patras. He also completed all eight games in the European Cup Winners' Cup. In the Eredivisie, he stood 290 times for FC Twente on the court, scoring 14 goals.
After ten years at FC Twente van Ierssel went in 1979 to second division club Heracles Almelo, where he played Divisie three years in the Eerste. Then he held until his retirement his learned profession as an administrative clerk again, next he played temporarily at amateur side Quick '20 on football.
National
In the 1973/74 season van Ierssel became a national player. He loosened his club mates Epi Drost from the Oranje jersey: Drost retired after his last international match on September 12, 1973, a severe injury; In the next match against Poland on October 10, 1973 van Ierssel was the first time in the squad and was immediately loaded; he came in the 78th minute for Johan Neeskens on the court, as the result of 1:1 had already been decided. Under Rinus Michels Bondscoach he made the preparation games for the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany with and also belonged to the Dutch squad at the World Cup, but had no use; only in the first game against Uruguay, he was allowed to sit on the bench. After the World Cup he was still in a European Championship qualifier against Finland and a friendly match on October 9, 1974 against Switzerland for use, before his career in Oranje was complete after one year.