Jan van Deinsen

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Deinsen, not Deinsen.

Jan van Deinsen (born 19 June 1953) is a Dutch former football player and manager who played as a left midfielder.

Jan van Deinsen

van Deinsen in 1976
Personal information
Date of birth	(1953-06-19) 19 June 1953 (age 72)
Place of birth	Tiel, Netherlands
Position	Left midfielder
Youth career
	TSV Theole
	NEC Nijmegen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1974	NEC	59	(9)
1974–1976	Go Ahead Eagles	53	(7)
1976–1983	Feyenoord	164	(23)
Total		276	(39)
International career
1980	Netherlands	1	(0)
Managerial career
1989–1990	Nigeria (assistant)
1990	Achilles '29
1991–1992	TOP Oss (assistant)
1995–1996	NAC (assistant)
1997–2000	TOP Oss (technical director)
2000–2002	Go Ahead Eagles (assistant)
2002–2003	Babberich
2003–2004	MVV
2004–2005	Vitesse (assistant)
2006–2008	Trinidad and Tobago (assistant)
2008–2009	JVC Cuijk
2009–2010	Vitesse (assistant)
2010–2012	JVC Cuijk
2012–2013	Achilles '29
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

van Deinsen was born in Tiel, Gelderland. He made his professional debut for NEC on 12 September 1971 against SC Telstar and also played for Go Ahead Eagles, before joining Dutch giants Feyenoord for whom he played for seven years.^[1] He won the 1979–80 KNVB Cup with the club, but he had to quit football in 1984 due to injuries of his achilles tendon.

International career

He obtained one cap for the Netherlands national team, when they lost to the Republic of Ireland on 10 September 1980 in Dublin.^[2]

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, van Deinsen coached amateur sides Babberich and JVC Cuijk and was assistant at several professional clubs as well as to fellow Dutch managers Clemens Westerhof at Nigeria and Wim Rijsbergen at Trinidad and Tobago.^[3] In 2003 he was named manager of Eerste Divisie club MVV,^[4] only to leave them in February 2004.^[5]

He was appointed manager of Achilles '29 in July 2012 after leaving the amateurs of JVC Cuijk.^[6]

Honours

Feyenoord

• KNVB Cup: 1979–80