Joey Godee (born 2 March 1989) is a Dutch

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who plays for Dutch

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club HVC Amersfoort.

Career

Godee played in the youth of

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, then

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, before making the transfer to the youth of

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in 2007. He had an impressive 2007–08 season, and thanks in part to his goals, the Sparta under-19 side won the national championship in their age group. This earned Godee his first professional contract. Godee was promoted to the Sparta senior team by head coach

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in preparation for the 2008–09 season. Together with

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, he was one of the best performing youth players of the pre-season. Godee made his professional debut on 31 August 2008 in a match against

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. In November 2008, Godee scored his first official goal for Sparta, in the

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match against

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. He scored again a few days later in the league match against

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. Godee scored four senior goals for Sparta in the 2008–09 season. In the 2009–10 season, where Sparta suffered relegation to the second-tier

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, Godee only made seven appearances for Sparta due to injuries, in which he did not score. In the Eerste Divisie in the 2010–11 season, there were high expectations of Sparta and Godee. He ended the season with a respectable 10 goals, but Sparta performed disappointingly and although the club started the season in first place, they ended out of reach of the playoffs. In the 2011–12 season, Sparta made a new start. Contract of players from the Eredivisie campaign were terminated, and the first team consisted mainly of new players. Godee stayed and seemed to become the spearhead of the new Sparta. However, after the last minute sale of

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to PSV,

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Jeremy Bokila was signed on loan. Godee was benched, and only came into action in eleven games during the season, in which he scored one goal. In 2012, Godee moved to

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on a one-year contract. After the club went bankrupt shortly after, he signed a contract with Belgian club

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in January 2013, where he was reunited with his former coach, Foeke Booy. Following Booy's dismissal at the end of April, Cercle Brugge were able to maintain their place in the Belgian First Division under head coach

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, who had succeeded Booy. Cercle Brugge had first won the third play-off matchup against

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, and after advancing from the play-offs against three second-tier teams, White Star Woluwe, Mouscron-Péruwelz and

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. On 29 May 2013, Godee signed a three-year contract extension with Cercle Brugge. He reported in the press that retaining Cercle in the First Class was a condition for him to extend his contract. On 25 July 2013, Godee moved to

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on a season-long loan. After the 2013–14 season, he returned to Cercle Brugge. With that club, he suffered relegation in 2015. In July of that year, his contract for another season was terminated. In 2016, he started playing for

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on an amateur basis. He finished the season at

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from January 2017 and then returned to Helmond Sport. He left there at the end of November and joined DOVO, alongside fellow former professional Dominique Kivuvu, in mid-February 2018 after a trial in Vietnam. In mid-2018, Godee moved to DUNO in the

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. Prior to the 2021–22 season, Godee moved to HVC Amersfoort in the lower division

Personal

He is the son of former footballer Edwin Godee.

References

External links

Voetbal International profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Godee, Joey 1989 births Living people Footballers from Utrecht (city) Men's association football forwards Dutch men's footballers Dutch expatriate men's footballers USV Elinkwijk players Sparta Rotterdam players AGOVV players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players Go Ahead Eagles players Helmond Sport players FC Dordrecht players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Belgian Pro League players Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Netherlands men's youth international footballers 21st-century Dutch sportsmen Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers