Mandy van den Berg
Mandy van den Berg RON (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛndi vɑn dɛn bɛrx]; born 26 August 1990) is a Dutch football defender who plays for PSV and the Netherlands national team.[2] She formerly played club football in the Eredivisie Vrouwen for ADO Den Haag, for Vittsjö GIK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan and for LSK Kvinner FK of the Norwegian Toppserien.
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Full name | Mandy van den Berg | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 August 1990 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Naaldwijk, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
Playing position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | PSV | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Westlandia | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2007–2012 | ADO Den Haag | 57 | (7) | |||||||||||||
2012–2014 | Vittsjö GIK | 47 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2015 | LSK Kvinner FK | 11 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2016 | Liverpool | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Reading | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2018–2020 | Valencia | 23 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2020– | PSV | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2010– | Netherlands | 90 | (6) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 May 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 December 2017 |
Club career
After spending three seasons in Sweden with Vittsjö, Van den Berg signed for LSK Kvinner of Lillestrøm, Norway in December 2014.[3]
LSK Kvinner secured a double in 2015, but Van den Berg left after one season to join English FA WSL club Liverpool.[4] She played 13 times for Liverpool, who finished fifth in WSL 1, then transferred to Reading at the end of the season.[5]
International career
Van den Berg began playing football aged six and was called up for the Netherlands Under-17 team while still at school in her native Naaldwijk.[6] After winning 22 caps at Under-19 level, Van den Berg debuted for the senior Netherlands women's national football team on 15 December 2010. She replaced captain Daphne Koster for the second half of a 3–1 win over Mexico during a friendly tournament in Brazil.[7]
National team coach Roger Reijners named Van den Berg in his final squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[8] When she suffered knee ligament damage shortly before the tournament, Merel van Dongen was called up as a late replacement.[9]
At the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Van den Berg captained the Netherlands in their first ever appearance at the World Cup finals.[4]
Van den Berg also captained the team that won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 tournament. She made 4 appearances for the team at the tournament; starting 2 group stage games and being used as a substitute in two knockout games.[10]
International goals
- Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.[11]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 21 September 2011 | TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands | ![]() | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification |
2. | 23 November 2013 | Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 7–0 | 7–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
3. | 5 April 2014 | Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece | 4–0 | 6–0 | ||
4. | 2 March 2016 | Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands | ![]() | 3–1 | 4–3 | 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
5. | 6 March 2017 | Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2017 Algarve Cup |
6. | 8 July 2017 | Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 5–0 | 5–0 | Friendly |
Honours
Club
- ADO Den Haag
- Eredivisie (1): 2011–12
- KNVB Women's Cup (1): 2011–12
- LSK Kvinner
- Toppserien (1): 2015
- Norwegian Women's Cup (1): 2015
References
- "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- "Profile". FIFA.com. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- "Lämnar Vittsjö för Norge" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- "Ladies sign Netherlands captain Van Den Berg". Liverpool F.C. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- "Mandy van den Berg joins Reading Women from Liverpool Ladies". BBC Sport. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- "Mandy van den Berg droomt van het grote Oranje" (in Dutch). Het Hele Westland. 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
- Maarten de Jong (24 December 2010). "EXCLUSIEF – Interview met Mandy van den Berg" (in Dutch). Voetbal Centraal. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
- "Trio miss cut in Netherlands squad". UEFA.com. UEFA. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- Scholten, Berend (1 July 2013). "Van Dongen replaces Van den Berg for Oranje". UEFA.com. UEFA. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- "Wiegman kiest Oranjeselectie voor WEURO 2017". onsoranje.nl. 14 June 2017.
- "Profile". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mandy van den Berg. |
- Van den Berg profile on Onsoranje (in Dutch)
- Van den Berg profile on women's Netherlands (in Dutch)
- Mandy van den Berg – UEFA competition record
- Mandy van den Berg at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
- Mandy van den Berg at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
- Mandy van den Berg at Soccerway