Honours
With Heidelberg United:
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NSL Championship: 1980 (Runners-Up) - NSL Cup: 1980, 1982 (Runners-Up)
With South Melbourne:
With Brunswick Juventus:
- NSL Cup: 1988 (Runners-Up)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Yzendoorn | ||
| Date of birth | 17 September 1955 | ||
| Place of birth | Leeds, England [1] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1974 | Preston North End | 0 | (0) |
| 1976 | Morecambe | ||
| 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‡ | |||
| 1980–1981 | 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 15:06, 7 March 2022 (UTC) | |||
John Yzendoorn (born 17 September 1955) is a former professional soccer player who played for Heidelberg United, South Melbourne and Brunswick Juventus in the National Soccer League. Born in England, he represented Australia at international level.
He started his career in his native England with Preston North End but was released in 1974 without making a first-team appearance. [2] He then moved into non-league football and played for nearby Morecambe. [3] Yzendoorn later moved to Australia and 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. [4]
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.
He became an Australian citizen in 1981 in order to play in Australia's 1982 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. [5]
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.
Rudi Gutendorf remarked about him: "From the first day on he sabotaged my work. He was the most unpleasant player I met in my career as a soccer coach. ... Yzendoorn put a little Walkman inside our team sessions and put things that I said on tape. Later he played a few of my words in front of people from the press, but separate from their context." [6]
With Heidelberg United:
NSL Championship: 1980 (Runners-Up) NSL Cup: 1980, 1982 (Runners-Up)With South Melbourne:
With Brunswick Juventus:
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