Ulrich van Gobbel

Ulrich van Gobbel
Personal information
Date of birth (1971-01-16) 16 January 1971
Place of birth Paramaribo, Suriname[nb 1]
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Defender
Team information
Current team
 Feyenoord (U-19 manager)
Youth career
VV Bavel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1990 Willem II 33 (3)
1990–1995 Feyenoord 122 (2)
1995–1996 Galatasaray 25 (2)
1996–1997 Southampton 27 (1)
1997–2002 Feyenoord 100 (3)
Total 307 (11)
International career
1993–1994 Netherlands 8 (0)
Managerial career
2017– Feyenoord (U-19)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ulrich van Gobbel (born 16 January 1971) is a Dutch Surinamese football coach and a former player who played as a defender for Feyenoord (where he had two spells), Galatasaray and Southampton. He works as a coach with the Under-19 squad of Feyenoord.[1]

Career

At Southampton, he scored two goals, with one coming against Lincoln City in the League Cup[2] and one in the league against Leicester City.[3][4]

A speedy defender[5] - he clocked almost 11.20 seconds over the 100 metres with automatic timing, and 6.7 s hand-timed over the 60m - van Gobbel made eight international appearances for the Netherlands national team.[6]

Personal life

Born in Surinam, van Gobbel grew up in Bavel,[7] the Netherlands. In his biography, he explained to have had tough youth years with his father committing suicide after killing a woman in Rotterdam when Ulrich was only 15.[8]

Honours

Feyenoord

Galatasaray

Notes

  1. ↑ Dutch dependency until 1975

References

  1. ↑ "Feyenoord 2017–18 UEFA Youth League squad". UEFA. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Palace and Portsmouth talk to Shipperley". 4TheGame. 23 October 1996. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  3. ↑ O'Hagan, Simon (22 March 1997). "Claridge pushes falling Saints". The Independent. London. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  4. ↑ "Games played by Ulrich van Gobbel in 1996/1997". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  5. ↑ Verkamman, Matty (8 June 1993). "Van Gobbel, uitstraling van snelheid en kracht". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  6. ↑ "Ulrich van Gobbel". OnsOranje (KNVB - Dutch FA) (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Hoe is het toch met... Ulrich 'de Tank' Van Gobbel". BN De Stem (in Dutch). 26 May 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
  8. ↑ Gouka, Mikos (25 May 2016). "'Uli, Uli' openhartig over zijn turbulente leven". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 August 2026.
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