Jan Mulder (footballer)

For other people with the same name, see Jan Mulder.

Johan "Jan" Mulder (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈj(oːɦ)ɑm ˈmʏldər]; born 4 May 1945) is a Dutch former footballer, writer, columnist, and TV personality.

Jan Mulder

Jan Mulder in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Johan Mulder
Date of birth	(1945-05-04) 4 May 1945 (age 80)
Place of birth	Bellingwolde, Netherlands
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1972	Anderlecht	145	(91)
1972–1975	Ajax	56	(16)
International career
1967–1970	Netherlands	5	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early life

Johan Mulder was born on 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands.^[1]

Football career

Mulder with Anderlecht against Ajax, 1967

Mulder was a football striker and played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and AFC Ajax.^[1] He also played five matches for the Netherlands, scoring once.^[2] Mulder was topscorer of the 1966–67 season in the Belgian Eerste Klasse. His son Youri also grew up to become a football player, spending most of his career in the German Bundesliga at FC Schalke 04 until he retired in 2002.

Mulder (right) scores for AFC Ajax in 1974

Honours

Anderlecht

• Belgian First Division: 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1971–72^[3]
• Belgian Cup: 1971–72
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up: 1969–70^[4]

Ajax

• Eredivisie: 1972–73
• European Cup: 1972–73
• Intercontinental Cup: 1972
• European Super Cup: 1973

Individual

• Belgian First Division Top Scorer: 1966–67^[5]

Writer and commentator

After his football career had ended, Mulder became a well-known writer, columnist and television-personality in the Netherlands, making his debut analysing a match of the Netherlands national football team broadcast by TV channel RTL 4 in 1996. From that point onwards he would frequently guest star in the RTL 4 shows by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp, who presented both football-related programmes as well as talkshows concerning more political and social/public subjects. After having been a daily guest-star on the show Villa BvD, a football show during the 1998 World Cup in France (also hosted by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp), Mulder made more and more TV appearances until finally becoming daily guest-star on the late-night talkshow Barend & Van Dorp since March 1999, until the show stopped in April 2006.

The final season of Barend & Van Dorp was shown on the channel Talpa, who had bought the programme from RTL 4 during the summer of 2005. Jan Mulder also frequently appeared on another show that was broadcast by Talpa; Eredivisie – De Wedstrijden, which aires several times a week and shows highlights of the Dutch Football League (the Eredivisie). After Barend & Van Dorp Mulder became a weekly side kick in De Wereld Draait Door.

Mulder has also written several works, ranging from ultra-short stories to novels. Most people will associate his name with CaMu, the partnership between Remco Campert (Ca) and Jan Mulder (Mu) that has been writing daily front-page columns for national newspaper de Volkskrant since 1995. These columns are traditionally bundled into books entitled CaMu Jaaroverzicht at the end of each year.

Bibliography

• 1978: Opmars der strafschopgebieden
• 1982: De eeuwige reserve
• 1984: Sportjournalistiek bestaat niet
• 1987: De toespraken
• 1988: Diva in Winschoten (short stories)
• 1992: De middagduivel
• 1994: De vuurspuger van Ootmarsum
• 1994: Fiebelekwinten
• 1994: La vase
• 1994: Spreek en vergissing (novel)
• 1996: Mobieliquette
• 1999: Familie-album
• 1999: Villa BvD
• 2000: Overwinningen & nederlagen
• 2001: Spelers en speelsters
• 2001: Hollandse Velden
• 2002: De vrouw als karretje
• 2002: Strafschopgebieden & Reserves
• 2002: Opkomst & Ondergang
• 2003: Iris
• 2009: De analyticus
• 2009: Labradoedel
• 2010: Chez Stans
• 2014: Tot u spreekt Jan Mulder
• 2016: Duivelskunstenaar
• 2018: Liefde en Aardbevingen