Oscar Moens

Oscar Moens

Personal information
Full name	Oscar Moens
Date of birth	April 1, 1973 (1973-04-01) (age 38)
Place of birth	's-Gravenzande, Netherlands
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1995	Excelsior	109	(0)
1995–1996	Go Ahead Eagles	21	(0)
1996–2003	AZ	180	(0)
2000	→ RBC Roosendaal (loan)	14	(0)
2003–2004	Genoa	0	(0)
2004–2006	Willem II	45	(0)
2006–2007	PSV	2	(0)
2008–2009	Willem II	0	(0)
2010	Dayton Dutch Lions	15	(0)
2010–2011	Sparta Rotterdam	15	(0)
National team
1998–2001	Netherlands	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 26, 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Oscar Moens (born April 1, 1973 in 's-Gravenzande) is a former Dutch footballer who currently has a commercial position at Sparta Rotterdam.

Career

Early career

Moens started his professional football career at first division team SVV in the 1990/1991 season. The team merged with Dordrecht '90 forming SVV/Dordrecht'90 and for the 1992/1993 season he transferred to Excelsior Rotterdam. He then transferred to Go Ahead Eagles in the winter of 1995/1996 as this gave him the opportunity to play in the Eredivisie. At the end of this season he was bought by AZ Alkmaar for the sum of ƒ750.000,- (€340.000).

AZ Alkmaar

At AZ Alkmaar he played from 1996/1997 till 1999/2000 as a member of the starting line-up.^[1]

Chairman Dirk Scheringa was so contented with Moens' performance that AZ Alkmaar offered him a lucrative new contract, including a payment for his image rights, which was unprecedent for the Eredivisie at the time. He also earned his first National cap.

This contract did not pass the IRS scrutiny however, and a subsequent conflict between Moens and Scheringa resulted in Moens calling in sick at the end of the 1999/2000 season. For this he got suspended from the first team indefinitely.

In the season 2000/2001 he was loaned out to RBC Roosendaal. With this club he played 14 games and halfway the season 2000/2001 he was called back to AZ Alkmaar where he played till 2002/2003.

Later career

Italian Serie B club Genoa contracted Moens for the 2003/2004 season, although he never played a match for this club. Willem II saved him from falling into obscurity by signing him the following season.

In 2004/2005 Moens had a good first season, earning him a recall to the Netherlands national football team. In 2005/2006, however, he suffered an injury which only allowed him to play 11 games. In the summer of 2006 he moved to PSV Eindhoven, as second keeper behind Heurelho da Silva Gomes. He ended his career in 2007 but returned to the game in 2008 at Willem II.

United States

In December 2009 Moens was approached by Erik Tammer, with whom he played at Go Ahead Eagles in 1995-1996, and asked him to join the fledgling Dayton Dutch Lions team, which will debut in the USL Premier Development League in 2010. Moens agreed, and would play for Dayton from April to August 2010.^[2] December 2010 he went back to the Netherlands, where he joined Sparta Rotterdam. Although he extended his contract with a year in May 2011 he ended his career at the end of the 2010/11 season and picked up a commercial job at Sparta Rotterdam.

National team

Oscar Moens made two appearances for the Dutch national squad. On 13 October 1998 he played his first international match in a friendly with Ghana in the Gelredome in Arnhem, which ended in 0-0. His second appearance was on 10 November 2001 against Denmark where he played the entire match. The final score was 1-1, with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scoring for Holland.

References

1. ^ "Oscar Moens" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. http://www.vi.nl/Spelers/Speler/Oscar-Moens.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-15. 
2. ^ Dayton Dutch Lions FC sign former national goalkeeper Oscar Moens

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Name	Moens, Oscar
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Date of birth	1973-04-01
Place of birth	's-Gravenzande, Netherlands
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