Romeo Castelen
Romeo Castelen
Romeo Erwin Maurits Castelen ( May 3, 1983 in Paramaribo, Suriname) is a Dutch footballer ( midfielder ) of Surinamese descent.
Career
Association
Castelen played from the 2004/05 season as a striker or midfielder for Feyenoord Rotterdam. Before that, he spent four seasons at ADO Den Haag under contract, where he played in youth since 1998. In the season 2000/ 01 he made his debut for The Hague in the Eerste Divisie. He came this year to a total of three applications. The following year, established the striker and had regular periods of use. With the conclusion of the 2002 /03 rose to the Eredivisie ADO. After a personally good first season in the top Dutch league Castelen moved to Feyenoord. Besides Dirk Kuyt and Salomon Kalou he was already in his first year at Rotterdam at the top performers on the offensive.
In preparing for the season 2006/07 Castelen seriously injured. This he lost his place and had this season only a few inserts for Feyenoord. Rotterdam was only seventh in the league and failed to qualify for a European competition.
For the season 2007/ 08 Castelen moved to Hamburg and arrived there next to Rafael van der Vaart, Nigel de Jong, Joris Mathijsen and coach Huub Stevens as the fifth Dutchman to the team. He signed a four-year contract until 30 June 2011. During his first season he came up with 13 inserts.
After 617 days of injury Castelen was able to achieve his first Bundesliga goal for Hamburg SV vs VfL Wolfsburg on August 23, 2009.
Despite Castelens frequent injuries, which allowed it to deny only 26 Duty games in four seasons, prolonged HSV its June 30, 2011 expiring contract for another year. In August 2011 he played after almost 24 months of injury lay back a competitive match for Hamburger SV II in the Regionalliga Nord. In this game, he scored two goals. In the coming weeks Castelen made a good impression in the second team. On September 23 Castelen celebrated in a 2-1 away win against VfB Stuttgart after two years of his comeback in the Bundesliga when he came on in the 82nd minute for Heung- Min Son. As a result, more minor injuries, which is why Castelen only came to a further short stint with FC Schalke 04 came. Finally, the HSV decided not to renew his June 30, 2012 expiring contract. Castelen was a realist and know that HSV could no longer plan with him. The end of March Castelen was transferred from coach Thorsten Fink in the U -23, because Fink in a relegation battle wanted to work in training with fewer players. On 33 Matchday he was officially adopted after the last home game of the season.
After the season, he took part in the training of Espanyol and FC Red Bull Salzburg.
In February 2013 Castelen signed a contract until the end of the season 2012/13, the Russian first division side Volga Nizhny Novgorod with an option for extension.
However, early in July he left Russia again and moved back to his home to RKC Waalwijk.
National
As the Netherlands U -21 national football team, he was at the U- 21 Football Championship in Portugal in 2006 European Champion.
Castelen was also nominated several times for the national team. Previously, he was ten times for the A-Team in the use of the national team, scoring one goal. He made his debut on 18 August 2004 against the Swedish national team. However, it was not called by the Bond coach Marco van Basten in the team of Orange for the soccer World Cup in 2006.
Achievements
- U-21 European Football Championships: 2006
Family
Castelen has one daughter and one son.