Stijn Schaars
Stijn Schaars ( born January 11, 1984 in Gendt ) is a Dutch football player. Since the 2013/14 season he played in the Dutch Eredivisie for PSV Eindhoven. He belongs to the Dutch national squad.
Career
Association
Stijn Schaars began at age six in his hometown at the local club De Gendt Bataven to play organized football, in which even his father John had Schaars reüssiert outside left before he had to stop due to a knee injury. From there Stijn Schaars moved to the youth of the SBV Vitesse to nearby Arnhem. In the C - youth team under coach Edward Sturing Dutch master was. But Schaars had almost finished a little later due to growth problems his career, youth coach Theo Bos did but hold on to it, even though he could not play for nearly a year.
Also Schaars ' professional career at Vitesse took its beginning, where he belonged to the Eredivisie squad since the 2002/ 03 season. His debut in the starting eleven, he was under coach Mike Snoei in the KNVB Cup match at Feyenoord in Rotterdam on 5 March 2003, the Vitesse won 3-1 when he came on after 84 minutes for Aleksandar Ranković. Four days later, he ran the first time in the Eredivisie; against FC Utrecht he came again in the 26th minute for Ranković on the field, but was in turn replaced in the break against Frenchman Didier Martel. In his first season the midfielder, who plays as preferably footed on the left, but also central defensive midfield came only to a further short-term use - the competition in midfield was too big with Yevgeny Levchenko, Theo Janssen and Jan van mufflers. The following season, the junior national team played as a team regular in the first team of Vitesse; in this as in the next season he made every 21 games in the league. He received headlines on the final day before the winter break on December 16, 2004, when he turned the match against De Graafschap: Arnhem, had, after only 39 seconds against the team that had only previously won a season game in the residue, and this before the mid-term chased in vain. After the break Schaars transformed first a presentation of Ranković to compensate and brought five minutes later his team a free kick on the road to victory; Matthew Amoah made the final score of 3:1 ago.
For the season 2005/ 06 Schaars moved to AZ Alkmaar, where he was able to establish itself in his first season as a regular player and gain international experience in the UEFA Cup. Early in his second season in Alkmaar he was A-National player before an ankle injury put him almost a half years out of action. In the 2007 /08 season, he could not complete a single game in the Eredivisie. In the season 2008/ 09 he came back as a regular player and was one of the guarantees for winning the Dutch Championship in 2009. According to the 2010/11 season, in AZ to No. 5 in the preseason finished in fourth place, Schaars moved to Sporting Clube de Portugal. In Lisbon, he received a three -year contract.
National
2006 Stijn Schaars with the Dutch U -21 European Junior champion, where he was captain of the team. Bond coach Marco van Basten was appointed him in the squad for the 2006 World Cup but because of an injury he had to cancel and only came after the World Cup on 16 August 2006 in a friendly match in Dublin against Ireland to its first use in Oranje. For the A-Team, he played six games in 2006; In February 2009, he was in a friendly match against Tunisia in Tunis made a comeback and was then washed three times in the starting lineup of Bond coach Bert van Marwijk. In May 2010 he was appointed to the extended squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.