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Hans van Breukelen

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Hans van Breukelen

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Dutch footballer

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Hans van Breukelen is a Dutch male association football player and television presenter. Born on 4 October 1956 in Utrecht, he played as a goalkeeper for the Netherlands national team and clubs including FC Utrecht, PSV Eindhoven, and Nottingham Forest F.C. His professional career began in 1976. He participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1980, UEFA Euro 1988, and UEFA Euro 1992.

Van Breukelen is also an author, with the work *Winnen* (Dutch Edition) listed among his publications. He stands 188 cm tall and weighs 86 kg.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Winnen (Dutch Edition)

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1956

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15
Total plays
61

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hans+van+Breukelen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Hans van Breukelen

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  2. Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

    · 2017 · cited 33,751x

  3. Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath

    · 1984 · cited 28,832x

  4. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,642x

  5. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,174x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Full name
Johannes Franciscus van Breukelen
Date of birth
( 1956-10-04 ) 4 October 1956 (age 69)
Place of birth
Utrecht , Netherlands
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position
Goalkeeper
1964 1975
BVC
Years
Team
1975 1982
FC Utrecht
1982 1984
Nottingham Forest
1984 1994
PSV Eindhoven
1980 1992
Netherlands

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Goalkeeper
Nationality
The Netherlands

via TheSportsDB

~11 min read

Encyclopedic overview

* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Johannes Franciscus "Hans" van Breukelen ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑns fɑm ˈbrøːkələ(n)]; born 4 October 1956) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was the technical director of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) from 2017 until 2018.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hans van Breukelen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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