Theo Janssen

Theo Janssen

Theo Janssen (born 27 July 1981 in Arnhem ) is a former Dutch football player.

Career

Association

The midfielder began his career in the youth of the amateur club Vitesse Arnhem in 1892, before joining the SBV Vitesse 1995. In the 1997/98 season, he advanced to the pros, but had to wait until 9 December 1998 to its first use in the Eredivisie. In the 2-0 win at NAC Breda Vitesse he came on in the 90th minute for Marián Zeman. After five seasons Janssen went in 2003 for half a year to the Belgian premier league club KRC Genk, but was already transferred again during the season back to Vitesse. For Arnhem, he played a total of 97 league games in which he scored 17 goals before he moved to FC Twente Janssen in the summer of 2008.

With the team from Enschede he became a regular player equal second in the Eredivisie; in the season 2009/10 he was one of the guarantors of the Langerringen the first championship of FC Twente. In the season 2010/11 Janssen was elected Footballer of the Year. Twente won at the end of the season against the rival AFC Ajax Although the trophy, but playful on the final day in Amsterdam the championship. A few days later Ajax Janssen committed for two years from the 2011/12 season with an option for another season. For the FC Twente, he scored 18 goals in 86 league games, was six times successfully in 13 Cup games and met four times in 29 games of the Champions and Europa League.

Since the 2012/13 season Janssen was again active for Vitesse Arnhem. After a torn ACL in October 2013, he announced his career end in March 2014.

National

August 16, 2006 Theo Janssen was the match against the Irish national team made ​​its debut in the Dutch National Team; He came off the bench with seven minutes to deadline for Stijn Schaars. Two weeks later he played in the European Championship qualifier against Luxembourg over the full distance. Then went almost four years, until he came to his third deployment. For the first match after the 2010 World Cup Bondscoach Bert van Marwijk called him in the squad for the friendly in Ukraine, in which players used at the World Cup were missing. Janssen was again in the starting lineup, playing alongside a total of seven debutants and other returnees as Hedwiges Maduro Urby Emanuelson and until the final whistle by.

Achievements

  • Dutch champion with FC Twente: 2010
  • Dutch Cup winner with FC Twente: 2011
  • Dutch runners-up: 2011
  • Dutch Super Cup winners: Johan Cruyff Schaal 2010
July 27 2009–10 Eredivisie 2010–11 KNVB Cup 2010–11 Eredivisie Mike Havenaar Marko Meerits Piet Velthuizen Jan-Arie van der Heijden Patrick van Aanholt
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