John Yzendoorn

John Yzendoorn

Personal information
Full name	John Yzendoorn
Date of birth	(1955-09-17) 17 September 1955
Place of birth	Lincoln, England
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978	Prahran Slavia
1979–1982	Heidelberg United	92	(11)
1983–1985	South Melbourne	64	(5)
1986–1988	Brunswick Juventus	60	(7)
1989	Sandringham City
1993	Croydon City	17	(0)
International career‡
1979–1981	Australia	13	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

John Yzendoorn (born 17 September 1955) is an Australian former international association footballer who played for Heidelberg United, South Melbourne and Brunswick Juventus in the National Soccer League.

Club career

Yzendoorn was signed by Heidelberg United in 1979, playing four seasons with the Melbourne based club in the National Soccer League. He joined fierce rivals South Melbourne in 1983, and helped them to their first national championship in 1984. After three years with South Melbourne, he moved to Brunswick Juventus in 1986, where he spent the final three seasons of his national domestic career.

In 2009, he became one of the initial inductees into the South Melbourne Hall of Fame.

International career

Yzendoorn made his international debut at the age of 23, when he was selected by Rudi Gutendorf to play in a two-match series against Partizan Belgrade in 1979, where he came on as a substitute in both matches. His first ‘A’ international cap came against Czechoslovakia in 1980, where he again appeared off the bench in the Socceroos 2-2 draw at Olympic Park in Melbourne. He scored his first and only international goal in another 2-2 draw against Mexico in Sydney later that year. In all, Yzendoorn would play 13 ‘A’ international matches for his country, his career ending during Australia’s ill-fated 1982 World Cup qualifying campaign, where he was a key member of the squad which lost at home to New Zealand.

Honours

With Heidelberg United:

• NSL Championship: 1980 (Runners-Up)
• NSL Cup: 1980, 1982 (Runners-Up)

With South Melbourne:

• NSL Championship: 1984

With Brunswick Juventus:

• NSL Cup: 1988 (Runners-Up)

External links

• OzFootball profile
• 1979 Socceroos records
• 1980 Socceroos records
• 1981 Socceroos records