Jan Jongbloed

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Jan Jongbloed

| image = Jan Jongbloed 1978.jpg

| caption = Jongbloed in 1978

| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|11|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Amsterdam, German-occupied Netherlands

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|8|30|1940|11|25|df=y}}

| death_place =

| height = 1.79 m

| position = Goalkeeper

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = DWS

| years1 = 1959–1972

| clubs1 = DWS

| caps1 = 353

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1972–1977

| clubs2 = FC Amsterdam

| caps2 = 161

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1977–1981

| clubs3 = Roda JC

| caps3 = 112

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 1982–1986

| clubs4 = Go Ahead Eagles

| caps4 = 81

| goals4 = 0

| totalcaps = 707

| totalgoals = 0

| nationalyears1 = 1962–1978

| nationalteam1 = Netherlands

| nationalcaps1 = 24

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1981–1982

| managerclubs2 = Vitesse (assistant)

| manageryears2 = 1986–2000

| managerclubs3 = Vitesse (ad interim)

| manageryears3 = 1999

| managerclubs4 = Vitesse (youth)

| manageryears4 = 2000–2010

| managerclubs1 = HFC Haarlem (assistant)

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's football}}

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}}

Jan Jongbloed{{efn|name=pronunciation|The phrase Jan Jongbloed is pronounced {{IPA|nl|jɑˈɲɔŋblut|}}. The words in isolation are pronounced {{IPA|nl|jɑn|}} and {{IPA|nl|ˈjɔŋblut|}}.}} (25 November 1940 – 30 August 2023) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Netherlands national team, having represented the country at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups, where the Oranje finished as runners-up in both cases.

Club career

Born in Amsterdam, Jongbloed played for DWS (then rebranded as FC Amsterdam), Roda JC and Go Ahead Eagles. He played a total amount of 717 professional games,{{Cite web |date=31 August 2023 |title=Jongbloed kon maar moeilijk stoppen: 'Een mooier vak dan keepen bestaat niet' |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2488693-jongbloed-kon-maar-moeilijk-stoppen-een-mooier-vak-dan-keepen-bestaat-niet |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=NOS.nl |language=nl}}{{Cite web |date=31 August 2023 |title=Former Netherlands goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed, runner-up in 2 World Cup finals, has died at 82 |url=https://apnews.com/article/jongbloed-dies-orange-world-cup-04a0829aff8e6638a71310a938bc899a |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Associated Press |language=en}} and made the second-highest number of appearances in the history of the Eredivisie, behind only Pim Doesburg.{{Cite web |last=Golia |first=Simone |date=31 August 2023 |title=Addio a Jongbloed, il portiere "pazzo" dell'Olanda di Cruijff |url=https://www.corriere.it/sport/calcio/23_agosto_31/jongbloed-morto-olanda-portiere-dd90ae7a-47ea-11ee-9f25-836bb120d659.shtml |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it-IT}}

Jongbloed retired in 1986, at the age of 45, due to a heart attack he had suffered during an official match between Go Ahead Eagles and HFC Haarlem.{{Cite web |date=31 August 2023 |title=Voormalig Oranje-doelman Jan Jongbloed (82) overleden |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2488668-voormalig-oranje-doelman-jan-jongbloed-82-overleden |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=NOS.nl |language=nl}} After his retirement from playing, he worked as a football coach.{{Cite web |date=31 August 2023 |title=Golden generation Dutch keeper Jongbloed dies aged 82 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230831-golden-generation-dutch-keeper-jongbloed-dies-aged-82 |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=France 24 |language=en}}

International career

Jongbloed made 24 appearances for the Netherlands senior national team, winning his first cap in 1962 and the last in the 1978 FIFA World Cup final.

Jongbloed represented the Netherlands at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups.{{Cite web |date=31 August 2023 |title=Voormalig Oranje-doelman Jan Jongbloed op 82-jarige leeftijd overleden |url=https://www.espn.nl/voetbal/artikel/_/id/12522081/voormalig-oranje-doelman-jan-jongbloed-op-82-jarige-leeftijd-overleden |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=ESPN.nl |language=nl}}

Style of play

As a youth, he was a winger.

When he was keeping, he become one of the pioneer of sweeper-keeper, which style of play matched the totaalvoetbal with his feet ability . Anticipated 40 years of this style, when nowadays, a lot of keepers such Manuel Neuer, Alisson and many others, being crucial of football innovation.

Personal life and death

File:Jan Jongbloed with wife 1964.jpg

Jongbloed was married twice and twice divorced; he had a daughter, Nicole, and a son, Eric. The latter also went on to play football as a goalkeeper for DWS; however, during a match on 23 September 1984, he was fatally struck by lightning, aged 21.

Jongbloed died on 30 August 2023, at the age of 82.

Honours

DWS

Eredivisie: 1963–64{{Cite web |last=Schoenmakers |first=Jan |date=20 February 2005 |title=Netherlands 1963/64 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/ned64.html |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=RSSSF}}

Netherlands

FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1974,{{cite web |date=4 May 2006 |title=World Cup history - West Germany 1974 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4850426.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060706173225/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4850426.stm |archive-date=6 July 2006 |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC}} 1978{{Cite web |date=26 June 1978 |title=2 goal Kempes sinks the Dutch |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19780626&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=1 September 2023 |publisher=Glasgow Herald |page=23}}
UEFA European Championship third place: 1976{{Cite web |title=Netherlands v. Yugoslavia - UEFA Euro 1976 |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/match/3692--netherlands-vs-yugoslavia/ |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=UEFA |language=en}}
Tournoi de Paris: 1978{{cite news|title = 1978 Tournoi de Paris|url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablest/tiparis.html|work = RSSSF|accessdate = 28 February 2017}}

Notes

References

{{Reflist|refs=

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081012092548/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=174643/index.html Jan Jongbloed Statistics] FIFA. Retrieved 3 February 2010.

{{cite web|author=Stokkermans, Karel|title=Jan Jongbloed – International Appearances|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/jongbloed-intl.html|date=29 January 2010}}

Marx, Ernest (9 June 2010) [http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2010-06-09/zelfportret-jan-jongbloed/ Zelfportret: Jan Jongbloed]. hpdetijd.nl

[http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/nieuws/2009/september/De-dood-van-doelman-Eric-Jongbloed.html De dood van doelman Eric Jongbloed]. geschiedenis24.nl. 23 September 2009

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{{succession box|before=Herbert Neumann|title=Vitesse Arnhem Manager (a.i.)
alongside Edward Sturing|years=30 October 1999 – 31 December 1999|after= Ronald Koeman}}