Johannes Gerardus Nicolaas Venneker (born 5 March 1945) is a Dutch former

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who played as a

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. A

Feijenoord Feijenoord () is a borough of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, south of the Nieuwe Maas. Feyenoord football club was formed there, but now play in the neighbouring township of IJsselmonde. It was a centre of shipbuilding in the nineteenth century, ...

youth product, he made his

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debut with club and went on to play for

NEC Nijmegen NEC Nijmegen (''Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie''), commonly known as NEC (), is a professional Dutch association football club based in Nijmegen. The club currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, following promotion ...

Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands. Sparta currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top flig ...

and French club Montferrand. He also made four appearances for the Netherlands national team. Venneker is the only Feyenoord player to have scored five goals in a match against

De Klassieker De Klassieker (''The Classic'') is the main football rivalry of the Netherlands, between AFC Ajax, Ajax (of Amsterdam) and Feyenoord (of Rotterdam). The record attendance was on 9 January 1966, when 65,562 watched in Rotterdam. History The ri ...

rivals

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Career

Venneker was born in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

. Until the age of 18 he played as a

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. On 29 November 1964, aged 19, he scored five goals in

's 9–4 win in

against

. To this day, he is the only Feyenoord player to have achieved this feat. Following a move to

Venneker spent seven years at

. At Sparta, he was deployed in the

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position by coach

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. Later in his time there he also featured for the Netherlands national team, making four appearances.

Personal life

Venneker has two sons with his wife Sylvia. He owned a sports shop called "Venneker Sporting" in

Hellevoetsluis Hellevoetsluis () is a town and former municipality in the west of Netherlands. It is located in Voorne-Putten, South Holland. The former municipality covered an area of of which was water and it included the population centres of Nieuw-Helvoe ...

. he lived in

Rockanje Rockanje is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Voorne aan Zee, and lies about 7 km northwest of Hellevoetsluis. In 2001, the village of Rockanje had 4805 inhabitants. The built-up area of the ...

. In January 2015 it was announced he would take up the role of technical advisor at lower-league club

VV Nieuwenhoorn Voetbalvereniging Nieuwenhoorn is a football club based in Nieuwenhoorn, South Holland, Netherlands. Founded in 1929, they are currently members of the Eerste Klasse, the sixth tier of the Dutch football league system. They play their home match ...

for the 2015–16 season. He successfully underwent heart surgery in September 2020. At the time he was chairman of Oud-Feyenoord, a team of former Feyenoord players, and living in

Brielle Brielle (), also called Den Briel in Dutch and Brill in English, is a town and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New Maas. The for ...

Honours

Feijenoord *

: 1964–65 *

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: 1964–65

References

External links

*
Profile at feyenoord-online.com
1945 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Footballers from Rotterdam Men's association football forwards Men's association football fullbacks Netherlands men's international footballers Eredivisie players Feyenoord players NEC Nijmegen players Sparta Rotterdam players AS Montferrand Football players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{netherlands-footy-forward-stub