Personal information | |||
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Full name | Samantha van Diemen [1] | ||
Date of birth | 28 January 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Leiden, Netherlands | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Fortuna Sittard | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
2018 | Ajax | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2021 | Ajax | 12 | (1) |
2021–2022 | Feyenoord | 23 | (1) |
2022– | Fortuna Sittard | 20 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2018–2019 | Netherlands U17 | 13 | (1) |
2020 | Netherlands U19 | 1 | (0) |
2022 | Netherlands U20 | 7 | (0) |
2021– | Netherlands | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 May 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 August 2022 |
Samantha van Diemen (born 28 January 2002) is a Dutch footballer who plays as defender for Fortuna Sittard in the Eredivisie.
Van Diemen played for CTO, an educational team organized by the national football association KNVB. When CTO stopped in 2018, Van Diemen went to Ajax Talententeam, the female youth team of Ajax. In the summer of 2019 she signed a contract for the Ajax Vrouwen-squad. On October 25 she played her first official match, the second half of the game against Heerenveen for the Eredivisie Cup. In July 2021 she signed a contract with Feyenoord to continue her career. [2]
On 15 February 2018 Van Diemen played her first international game for Oranje U16. [3] She then already played for Oranje U17. [4] In August 2019 she also played for Oranje U19. [5] Since 2021, she plays for Oranje U23.
Van Diemen became the first ever female Feyenoord player to play for the Netherlands, when she started on 29 November 2021 in a 0–0 draw, during a friendly match against Japan. [6] [7]
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