Nordin Wooter

Nordin Wooter (born 24 August 1976 in Breda) is a Dutch former footballer of Surinamese descent, who played as a right-winger.

Nordin Wooter
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-08-24) 24 August 1976
Place of birth Breda, Netherlands
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
OSV
Zeeburgia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1997 Ajax 58 (6)
1997–1999 Zaragoza 32 (1)
1999–2002 Watford 63 (3)
2002–2003 RBC 29 (2)
2003–2004 Braga 19 (0)
2004 Anorthosis Famagusta 14 (7)
2004–2006 Panathinaikos 21 (1)
2006–2007 Sivasspor 10 (3)
2007–2008 AEK Larnaca 11 (2)
Total 257 (25)
National team
Netherlands under-18
Netherlands under-21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Wooter started in his youth at OSV and AVV Zeeburgia before joining the youth academy of AFC Ajax. He continued his professional playing career at Ajax. He entered the first team at the time of the successes between 1994 and 1996 where he became the National champion twice and won the UEFA Champions League with the team. On 17 April 1996 he became the first teenager ever to score in a UEFA Champions League semi-final. This happened during the 1995/96 season in the away match against Panathinaikos FC, in which Wooter scored the third and last goal after two previous goals by Jari Litmanen.[1] A spell at La Liga side Real Zaragoza followed, before in 1999 Wooter joined English Premier League club Watford for a then club-record fee of £950,000.[2] He made his debut for Watford in a memorable 1–0 win over Chelsea,[3] and went on to score 3 goals for the club, against Leicester City,[4] Norwich City[5] and Wimbledon.[6]

After short periods at RBC Roosendaal and S.C. Braga, he was successful in 2004 with Anorthosis Famagusta FC in Cyprus. He was taken over by Panathinaikos F.C. during the 2004/05 season. In the 2006/07 season he played for Sivasspor and a season later he ended his playing career with AEK Larnaca F.C.

From 2010 to 2012 he was chairman of FC New Amsterdam, which emerged from SC Nieuwendam, which was formed in 2004 from a merger, and his organization 'Masters of the Game', where he works together with his former Ajax teammates Kiki Musampa and Tarik Oulida. He was declared bankrupt in 2011 [7] and the club followed suit a year later.[8] Since 2012 he has been working as a technique trainer for the youngest youth players at Ajax. In January 2019 he was appointed coach of FC Lienden.

By the end of 2014 Wooter together with David Endt managed a FIFA supported project for the Surinamese Football Association (S.V.B.) where the football school of Wooter in the Netherlands has the delegated authority from the S.V.B. to map out players of Surinamese descent and to interest them in coming out for the Suriname national football team.[9]

Wooter also played for the Netherlands under-18 and under-21 teams. He was a member of the Dutch squad at the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

References
  1. Johnston, Neil (8 May 2019). "Ajax 2-3 Tottenham (3-3 on aggregate - Spurs win on away goals): Lucas Moura scores dramatic winner". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. "Football: Watford in record buy as Wooter signs for pounds 950,000". The Independent. 14 September 1999.
  3. Longmore, Andrew (18 September 1999). "Smart dumbfounds Chelsea". London: The Independent. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  4. "Collymore impresses on debut". BBC. 12 February 2000. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  5. "Watford 4-1 Norwich". BBC. 10 March 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  6. "Wimbledon stung at Watford". BBC. 7 September 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  7. https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/nordin-wooter-heeft-geen-cent-meer~bd077950/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
  8. https://epischevoetballers.nl/2018/05/03/nordin-wooter-vallen-en-weer-opstaan/
  9. https://www.natiosuriname.com/2014/10/wooter-polst-suriprofs-voor-natio.html


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