Jan Mulder (footballer)
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.jpg) Jan Mulder in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Johan Mulder | ||
| Date of birth | 4 May 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Bellingwolde, Netherlands | ||
| Position | 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: [ˈj(oːɦ)ɑm ˈmʏldər]; born 4 May 1945) is a Dutch former footballer, writer, columnist, and TV personality.
Johan Mulder was born on 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands.[1]
Football career
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.
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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
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.
