Marnix Smit

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Marnix Smit
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-12-10) 10 December 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth Almelo, Netherlands
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
SV Rietvogels
FC Twente
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2009 Heracles Almelo 231 (13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marnix Smit (born 10 December 1975) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a centre back. He spent all of his professional career, which lasted ten years, with Heracles Almelo. [1] [2]

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Playing career

Smit was born in Almelo and played youth football for SV Rietvogels and FC Twente. [3] In January 1999, while playing for the reserve team of FC Twente, he was approached by Eerste Divisie side Heracles Almelo, who were looking to give the club a more regional image with players who were from the area. [4] Smit subsequently made his debut in professional football on 16 August 1999, in an away match against FC Eindhoven. [1] During the 2004–05 season, he helped Heracles become Eerste Divisie champions. [4] During the next season, they were able to stay in the Eredivisie comfortably (reaching 13th place), of which he said in 2014: "it felt like winning another championship". [4] Smit subsequently played for three more seasons in the Eredivisie with Heracles, before leaving the club in the summer of 2009. [1] He then moved to amateur side SVZW, [5] where he played until 2012. [1]

Style of play

Smit was known as a player with good passing ability, and as a free kick specialist. [3]

Personal life

While playing professional football, Smit was a public administration student at the University of Twente. [6] In 2010, he obtained a PhD degree in urban planning at the same university with a dissertation entitled "Safeguarding public interests in urban planning: A study on the impact of public-private partnerships on the public interest". [7]

Honours

Heracles Almelo

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Marnix Smit". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Marnix Smit" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Marnix Smit" (in Dutch). Shared Values. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Erbij op 21 mei: Marnix Smit, kampioenschap en eerste jaar Eredivisie als hoogtepunt" (in Dutch). Heracles Almelo. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Marnix Smit van Heracles naar SVZW" (in Dutch). Tubantia. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Eerste doctor in de eredivisie" (in Dutch). UT Nieuws. 21 March 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Smit, Marnix". University of Twente. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "Heracles knokt zich naar titel en eredivisie". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 20 May 2005.
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