Jan Mulder (footballer)

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Jan Mulder

Jan Mulder in 1998
Personal information
Full name	Johan Mulder
Date of birth	(1945-05-04) 4 May 1945
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

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

Early life

Johan Mulder is born on 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands.

Football career

Jan Mulder (right) scores for AFC Ajax in 1974

Mulder was a football striker and played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and AFC Ajax. He also played five matches for the Netherlands, scoring once. 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.

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 Dutch national football team broadcast by TV channel RTL4 in 1996. From that point onwards he would frequently guest star in the RTL4 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 RTL4 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 and Jan Mulder 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

• 1988 Diva in Winschoten (short stories)
• 1992 De middagduivel
• 1994 Vuurspuger van Ootmarsum
• 1994 Spreek en vergissing (novel)
• 1996 Mobieliquette
• 1999 Villa BvD
• 2000 Overwinningen en Nederlagen
• 2001 Spelers en speelsters
• 2001 Hollandse Velden
• 2002 De vrouw als karretje
• 2002 Strafschopgebieden & Reserves
• 2002 Opkomst en Ondergang
• 2003 Iris in de zomer van 2003

References

• (Dutch) Stats

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

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