André Ooijer
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| Full name | André Antonius Maria Ooijer | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 July 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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PSV (Youth Coach) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1979–1982 | SDW | ||||||||||||||
| 1982–1986 | SDZ | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1994 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | → Volendam (loan) | 32 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Roda JC | 75 | (9) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–2006 | PSV | 192 | (19) | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Blackburn Rovers | 79 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | PSV | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Ajax | 22 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 425 | (37) | |||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2010 | Netherlands | 55 | (3) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 May 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 July 2010 |
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André Antonius Maria Ooijer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈoːi̯ər]; born 11 July 1974) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a defender. He played his last professional game for Ajax against Vitesse on 6 May 2012.
In an international career lasting over a decade with the Netherlands, he earned 55 caps. He was selected for UEFA Euro 2008 and three FIFA World Cups, helping the Dutch reach the final of the 2010 edition.
Born in Amsterdam, Ooijer joined his first amateur football team when he was just five years old and started playing for other amateur clubs SDW and SDZ when he was just 12 years. He signed on at hometown club Ajax during the 1986–87 season and featured for the reserve team.
Sensing that he had little future in a club with so much competition for a first team place such as Ajax, he went on loan to Volendam for the 1994–95 season, before signing for Roda JC in the beginning of the 1995–96 season in a permanent deal. Throughout his career at that point, he excelled at right-back, although he could also operate at centre-back as well as defensive midfield. After impressing at Roda JC, Ooijer joined PSV in the middle of the 1997–98 season.
It was at PSV that Ooijer was chosen to represent the Oranje for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, although he did not start a single match and was supposed to be cover for Michael Reiziger who played at the right side of defence.
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