Jeffrey Mike Vlug (born 6 June 1986) is a Dutch former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

. He played as a winger. Vlug is a forward who was born in

Woerden Woerden () is a city and a municipality in central Netherlands. Due to its central location between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht, and the fact that it has rail and road connections to those cities, it is a popular town for commu ...

and made his debut in professional football, being part of the

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 ...

squad in the 2006–07 season. He would then play for a number of Dutch clubs, including

Go Ahead Eagles The Go Ahead Eagles are a Dutch professional football club from the city of Deventer in the province of Overijssel. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, having achieved promotion from the second tier Eerste Divisie in th ...

and

FC Eindhoven Football Club Eindhoven, commonly known as FC Eindhoven, is a professional association football, football club based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football ...

. In 2015, Vlug moved to

Rijnsburgse Boys Rijnsburgse Boys is a football club based in Rijnsburg, Netherlands. The team compete in the Tweede Divisie, the third level of the Dutch football league system. History The club was established on 24 March 1930. It currently plays in the Twe ...

, but left again after six months. He later began playing for

USV Hercules Utrechtse Sportvereniging Hercules (Utrecht Sports Association Hercules), also known as USV Hercules, Hercules Utrecht or simply Hercules, is an amateur football club in Utrecht, Netherlands. In 2014 it joined the Derde Divisie (then still known ...

, where he was appointed

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. Vlug decided to retire from football after the 2019–20 season, but as the Dutch competitions were cut short due to the

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, he officially retired on 3 April 2020.

References

1986 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Sparta Rotterdam players RBC Roosendaal players Go Ahead Eagles players FC Den Bosch players Fortuna Sittard players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Derde Divisie players Men's association football wingers USV Hercules players Footballers from Woerden {{Netherlands-footy-forward-stub