Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Dirk Wanner Proper [1] | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 24 February 2002 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Elst, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) [2] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | NEC | |||||||||||||
Number | 71 | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
SV Spero | ||||||||||||||
2011–2019 | NEC | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
2019– | NEC | 115 | (4) | |||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2017 | Netherlands U15 | 5 | (2) | |||||||||||
2017–2018 | Netherlands U16 | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
2018–2019 | Netherlands U17 | 16 | (2) | |||||||||||
2019 | Netherlands U18 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:40, 24 February 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:44, 15 December 2019 (UTC) |
Dirk Wanner Proper (born 24 February 2002) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eredivisie club NEC.
Born in Elst, Gelderland, Proper started playing football at amateur club SV Spero before joining the NEC youth academy at the age of nine, where he was quickly regarded as one of the club's most promising prospects. [3] He made his professional debut in the Dutch second-tier Eerste Divisie on 13 December 2019 in a 3–2 loss to Almere City. [4] In January 2020, Proper was definitively promoted to the NEC first team. He gradually became integrated into the first team during this 2019–20 season, with head coach François Gesthuizen utilising him as an attacking midfielder. [5]
In July 2020, Proper's contract was extended until the summer of 2023. [6] Proper scored his first goal on 3 October 2020 in the 6–0 win over Eindhoven. [7] On 23 May 2021, Proper won promotion to the Eredivisie with NEC, by beating NAC Breda 2–1 in the final of the play-offs. [8]
Proper made his debut in the Eredivisie on 14 August 2021, the first matchday of the 2021–22 season, starting in a 5–0 away loss to Ajax at the Johan Cruyff Arena. [9]
From under-15 level, Proper has been part of Netherlands youth teams. With the Netherlands under-17 team, he won the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. He also participated in the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup. [10]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
NEC | 2019–20 | Eerste Divisie | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
2020–21 | Eerste Divisie | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 31 | 1 | ||
2021–22 | Eredivisie | 22 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 25 | 1 | |||
2022–23 | Eredivisie | 32 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 1 | |||
2023–24 | Eredivisie | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 26 | 4 | |||
Career total | 115 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 7 |
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