Orlando Engelaar

Orlando Engelaar ( born August 24, 1979 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football player standing since the 2013/14 season at Melbourne Heart under contract.

Career

Association

Engelaars family is from Suriname. His father was a football player and active as a central defender at SV Robin Hood in Paramaribo.

Orlando Engelaar was born in Rotterdam, grew up in Rotterdam -Zuid in walking distance of the Feyenoord Stadium and played already the age of seven in the youth of Feyenoord. He went through all the youth teams and played in the second team of the club. In addition, he was responsible for Henk ten Cate's " Suriprofs " team, a selection surinamischstämmiger Dutch professionals, active; his achievements in this team brought the 20 -year-old in the summer of 2000, a professional contract with NAC Breda. On August 19, 2000, he was in the left midfield of NAC at home to RKC Waalwijk his debut in the Eredivisie. After his second match he had to make the first of several injury-related breaks. Because of these various injuries, he remained on the team to the experienced Alfred Schreuder in the first two seasons substitute players and came to no more than 33 appearances. Although he was used as an attacking midfielder and several times in the attack of the NAC, he had to wait for his first league goal for more than two years. On 14 September 2002 he had a " double " in the 2-0 victory at SC Heerenveen. His Eredivisie matches three and four fell within a game, three weeks later in a 2-2 draw against PSV. His third season was with eight other for a total of twelve goals in 33 league games his most successful season at NAC - qualified fourth in the championship Breda for the UEFA Cup. The following season, he reached the semi-finals with NAC Breda the Dutch Cup.

After Engelaar had set out again for Breda in the league in the 2004/05 season and had achieved this against FC Utrecht to score, he moved to KRC Genk in the Belgian First Division, where the reporter Nieuwsblad him a power with " flowing dribbling and ball handling fine, you would not expect from a 1.96 meter tall boys " attested. In Limburg Genk 's he remained for two years, reached with the club in his first season third in the 2005/06 season in fifth place and played internationally in UI and UEFA Cup. After four games in the season 2006/ 07 he moved back to the Netherlands for FC Twente Enschede after. With Twente he qualified 2006 on the UEFA Intertoto Cup, also for the UEFA Cup. In Enschede, he was team captain under coach Fred Rutten and played a more defensive role than in his previous clubs.

As Rutten joined the 2008/09 season for FC Schalke 04 in the German Bundesliga, followed him to the long midfielder, who had become international, in July 2008 to Gelsenkirchen. But he could at Schalke expectations - in the opinion of DFBnet website Fussball.de " by far " - do not meet. Although he scored for the " squire " on 6 November 2008 in the UEFA Cup match with Racing Santander an important goal, but in the Bundesliga he remained in 25 games without a goal and was expelled twice the field. The German press saw his duty as " expensive ", " transfer misunderstanding"; in the Netherlands of his time in Gelsenkirchen was referred to as " failed attempt Adventure ".

For the 2009/10 season Engelaar struck from a lucrative offer from Panathinaikos Athens and moved instead back to the Eredivisie for PSV Eindhoven. His main reason was the hope of being able to return with compelling games in the Eredivisie under constant observation of Bond coach Bert van Marwijk for the World Cup 2010 more in the squad of the national team. In Eindhoven, he trained as in Enschede and Gelsenkirchen under Fred Rutten. In the 2009/10 season he came in spite of problems with the Achilles tendon, which had been operated on before the winter break, in 28 league operations on two goals. In the Europa League, he made ten games, including two games against Hamburger SV in which PSV was eliminated on the away goals rule. The team qualified as a third party season again for the Europa League. The following season he became the successor of Ibrahim Afellay of PSV captain teams. Due to financial difficulties the club salaries had to be shortened, Engelaar was urged to seek a new club. However, he could not find a new employer; in Eindhoven, he landed on the authority of athletic club director Tiny Sanders "on the sidelines ". In the season 2011/12 Engelaar had suffered an ankle injury that put him out of action for months. Only 13 times he came into this season, used four times in the 2012/13 season. His contract was subsequently not renewed. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was out of contract.

For the 2013/2014 season he moved to Melbourne Heart.

National

Engelaar came late in the squad for the Dutch national team. He was already 28 years old when he was invited to his first successful season in Enschede to a Far East tour of the Orange team. Bond coach Marco van Basten took advantage at halftime of the European Championship qualifier the games in South Korea and Thailand for location determination. So in the two games the goalkeeper Henk Timmer and Maarten Stekelenburg and Demy de Zeeuw, who had previously played only 15 minutes in Oranje, next to old hands such as Rafael van der Vaart, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Denny Landzaat and Wesley Sneijder were used. Also, gave the first match in Seoul, June 2, 2007 against South Korea, Andwélé Slory and Engelaar, who came on in the 63rd minute for Sneijder, their debuts. Four days later he came off the bench again in the match against Thailand.

Although Engelaar had just had another brief appearance in November 2007, van Basten appointed him in May 2008 in the squad for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland. Engelaar benefited from the fact that van Basten playing the same system as was Fred Rutten at Twente. For the first time he stood then as a defensive midfielder 24 May 2008 in a 3-0 win against Ukraine in the starting lineup of the national team and also played in the final two friendlies before Euro. During the European Championships, he was in all group matches and lost in the quarterfinals in use. After the World Cup renounced van Basten's successor Bert van Marwijk because of its " lean benefits' forward to using the new Schalke in the first eleven. Only once during his season in the Bundesliga Engelaar came on in the national team in November 2008 against Sweden. Eleven months later, he gave as a PSV player his comeback, however, only two brief appearances in October and November 2009. In World Cup year he received to mid May no match practice in van Marwijk's team, however, was among the 30 players who advanced the squad for the World Cup in South Africa formed. At the presentation of the final 23 players squad for the World Cup but van Marwijk announced that he would not take Engelaar to South Africa.

Achievements

• KNVB Cup: 2012 ( with PSV)

Private

Engelaar was father of a son in December 2010.