Serge van den Ban

Serge van den Ban (born 2 February 1980), is a Dutch retired football goalkeeper who currently works as a goalkeeping coach at the Arsenal football academy.[1]

Serge van den Ban
Personal information
Full name Serge van den Ban
Date of birth (1980-02-02) 2 February 1980
Place of birth Haarlem, Netherlands
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Arsenal
Youth career
DCO
Ajax
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Haarlem 49 (0)
2002–2004 FC Dordrecht 66 (0)
2004–2008 MVV 134 (0)
2008 Telstar 4 (0)
2009–2010 ADO '20
2010–2013 Ter Leede 24 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Haarlem, Van den Ban came through the youth ranks at AFC Ajax. He then in 2000 started playing professionally for Haarlem in the Eerste Divisie for two seasons. Subsequently, he went to the Eredivisie with FC Dordrecht who moved to the Eerste Divisie the following season. Van Den Ban in 2004 rejoined the Eredivisie with the outfit MVV Maastricht with whom he got to the quarter finals of the 2006 KNVB Cup[2]

He then moved to Telstar where he featuring once again in the Eerste Divisie within the 2007-08 season.[3] Van Den Ban then linked up a year later with Hoofdklasse team ADO '20.[4] He then signed with outfit Ter Leede in the 2010-11 season of the Hoofdklasse. He brought an end to his player career shortly afterward. Van Den Ban made in all over 250 appearances throughout his footballing club career.[1]

International career

Van den Ban played at youth level for the Netherlands[5] He was also crowned the best goalkeeper of the 1999 Eurovoetbal tournament.

Coaching career

Van Den Ban coached in prior at clubs Ajax, FC Utrecht and AZ Alkmaar together with the Holland's U15 team. He is currently linked up as of July 2015 with English side Arsenal as the goalkeeping coach of the club's Under 6 to Under 16 teams.[1]

Honours

Club Honours

Ajax

Individual Honours

References
  1. "Goalkeeping coach joins academy". Arsenal.com.
  2. "Doelman Serge van den Ban naar MVV". Rijnmond.nl(in Dutch).
  3. "Serge van den Ban weg bij Telstar". RTVNH.nl(in Dutch).
  4. "Serge van den Ban naar ADO'20". RTVNH.nl(in Dutch).
  5. "Serge Van Den Ban:Profile". OnsOranje.nl(in Dutch). Archived from the original on 21 August 2016.
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