Mike Havenaar

Mike Havenaar (2011)

Mike Havenaar (Japaneseハーフナー マイク, Hāfunā Maiku, born May 20, 1987 in Hiroshima ) is a Japanese football player who plays for Vitesse Arnhem. His Dutch parents came to Japan in 1986, when his father Dido signed a contract with the former Mazda FC in the first Japanese soccer league.

Career

Association

Havenaar began his career in the youth department of Consadole Sapporo when his father Dido worked there at the time as a goalkeeper coach. Later they switched to the Yokohama F. Marinos. In 2008 he was awarded to Avispa Fukuoka. The following year he played on loan at Sagan Tosu. In 2010 he moved to Ventforet Kofu. There he was in his first season with 20 goals scorer in J. League Division 2 and thus contributed to the rise of his team in the J. League Division 1 at. When he second in the scoring charts behind Joshua Kennedy was also in the first division with seventeen goals, many European clubs as well as the VfL ​​Wolfsburg were aware of him. However, Havenaar decided for a change in his father's home to Vitesse Arnhem.

National

1994 Havenaars family received Japanese citizenship. In 2007 he was appointed to the Executive of the Japanese U-20 national team for the U -20 World Cup in Canada. On September 2, 2011 Havenaar was in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup against North Korea made ​​his international debut for the Japanese national team.