Kai Heerings

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Kai Heerings
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Personal information
Date of birth (1990-01-12) 12 January 1990 (age 33)
Place of birth Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Central defender
Team information
Current team
 IJsselmeervogels
Number 32
Youth career
RCZ
0000–2000 ZVV Zilvermeeuwen
2000–2007 Ajax
2007–2008 Volendam
2008–2009 Utrecht
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2015 Jong Utrecht 29 (1)
2011–2015 Utrecht 63 (1)
2015–2016 Cambuur 5 (0)
2016 → Helmond Sport (loan) 10 (1)
2016–2017 SKN St. Pölten 5 (0)
2016 SKN St. Pölten II 3 (0)
2017 FC Homburg 14 (0)
2017–2019 Fortuna Sittard 32 (0)
2019 NorthEast United 11 (0)
2020–2021 MVV 11 (0)
2021 THOI Lakatamia
2021– IJsselmeervogels 34 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 January 2023

Kai Heerings (born 12 January 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central defender for IJsselmeervogels.

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Career

Heerings was promoted to the first team of FC Utrecht from its youth academy in 2011. He made his professional debut on 20 August 2011, in a match against Vitesse. In 2010, he had signed his first senior contract with the club; a two-year deal with a two-year option. Heerings was ultimately part of the first team of Utrecht for four years, culminating in fifth-place finish in the Eredivisie in the 2012–13 season. He himself made 17 league appearances that season. [1]

Heerings signed a one-year contract with SC Cambuur in May 2015, with an option for another season, as he was set to replace the outgoing Lucas Bijker. [2] However, he only made five appearances for the club, before being sent on a six-month loan to Helmond Sport in the second-tier Eerste Divisie for the remainder of the 2015–16 season in January 2016. [3]

Heerings signed a two-year contract with Austrian club SKN St. Pölten in June 2016, [4] who had won the second-tier Austrian Football Second League in the previous season and thus promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga. In January 2017, he moved to Germany to Regionalliga club FC 08 Homburg, with whom he received a contract valid until June 2019. [5] After the club suffered relegation from the Regionalliga Südwest, he returned to the Netherlands, where he joined the second division club Fortuna Sittard, where he also received a contract valid until June 2019. [6]

In September 2019, after his contract with Fortuna expired, Heerings committed to Indian Super League club NorthEast United for two seasons. [7]

Heerings signed a one-year contract with MVV Maastricht in August 2020, which took him over on as a free agent. [8]

On 19 August 2021, he joined IJsselmeervogels. [9]

Personal life

With his brother-in-law, Heerings has developed the JZ Design Game Case, a portable case and monitor for games consoles. The product was inspired by Heerings' own experiences of boredom when travelling for football matches, and the case has proved popular among professional athletes. Customers include Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero and Lewis Hamilton. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "K. Heerings - Profile". int.soccerway.com. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Cambuur haalt met Heerings gewenste opvolger Bijker". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 19 May 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Helmond Sport huurt Kai Heerings tot het einde van het seizoen". Helmond Sport (in Dutch). 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Kai Heerings wird Teil des Wolfsrudels!". SKN St. Pölten (in German). 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Zwei Neuzugänge für den FCH". FC 08 Homburg (in German). 22 January 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Kai Heerings naar Fortuna Sittard". Sittard-Geleen Nieuws (in Dutch). 6 July 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Hakim, Qasim (16 September 2019). "Fortunees Kai Heerings vervolgt carrière in India". De Limburger (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Kai Heerings versterkt gelederen MVV". MVV Maastricht (in Dutch). 19 August 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "VOGELS CONTRACTEREN ERVAREN KAI HEERINGS" (in Dutch). IJsselmeervogels. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Davis, Matt. "The Dutch footballer who has Europe's best footballers gaming on the go". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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