Adri van Tiggelen
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Adrianus Andreas "Adri" van Tiggelen (born 16 June 1957) is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a left back.
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In this Dutch name, the surname is van Tiggelen, not Tiggelen.
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Full name | Adrianus Andreas van Tiggelen | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1957-06-16) 16 June 1957 (age 67) | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Left back | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
Sparta Rotterdam | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1978–1983 | Sparta Rotterdam | 161 | (13) | |||||||||||
1983–1986 | Groningen | 97 | (5) | |||||||||||
1986–1991 | Anderlecht | 144 | (7) | |||||||||||
1991–1994 | PSV | 72 | (0) | |||||||||||
1994–1995 | Dordrecht'90 | 31 | (1) | |||||||||||
Total | 505 | (26) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1983–1992[1] | Netherlands | 56 | (0) | |||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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His career in football was intimately connected to Sparta Rotterdam, in which he began as a professional footballer, going on to manage the side in several categories and capacities, but he also played with success in Belgium for Anderlecht.
Van Tiggelen appeared nearly 60 times for the Netherlands, representing the nation at the 1990 World Cup and two European Championships, being a starter in the team that won Euro 1988.