Milan Fabrizio van Ewijk (born 8 September 2000) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a

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for club

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Career

Excelsior Maassluis

Despite being born in

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, the capital of the Netherlands, Van Ewijk signed for

Excelsior Maassluis Excelsior Maassluis is a football club from Maassluis, Netherlands, founded in 1918. The club's home ground is the 5,000 capacity arena known as Sportpark Dijkpolder. History Excelsior won the Hoofdklasse of 2013 and became champions of the T ...

from the youth academy of

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in 2016. He made 36 appearances for the club in total, scoring 2 goals.

ADO Den Haag

On 29 June 2019, Van Ewijk signed with

ADO Den Haag Alles Door Oefening Den Haag (), commonly known by the abbreviated name ADO Den Haag (), is a Dutch association football club from the city of The Hague. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation ...

after a successful season with Excelsior Maassluis. He made his professional debut with ADO Den Haag in a 4–2

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loss to

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on 4 August 2019.

Loan to Cambuur

On January 31 2020, Van Ewijk joined

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (; ) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the Keuken Kampioen Divisie due to sponsorship reasons, while ...

side Cambuur for the rest of the 2019-20 season.

Heerenveen

Van Ewijk signed for

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on 16 May 2021 for a fee reported to be almost €600k. In 2022-23 he was named in the Eredivisie team of the season.

Coventry City

On 27 July 2023, Van Ewijk signed for English

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club

for an undisclosed fee reported to be around £3.4 million. He scored his first goal for the club from a 25-yard free kick to open the scoring against

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in a 3–3 draw. He scored his second goal for the club in a 3-1 win against

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on 14 January 2024. Van Ewijk started and played every minute of Coventry's

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semi-final as they were eliminated by

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on penalties at

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. During the 2024-25 campaign, Milan Van Ewijk scored and got an assist against

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which enabled Coventry City to win 3-2, after a double from

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Personal life

Born in the Netherlands, Van Ewijk is of

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se and Malaysian descent, thus being eligible to play for

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and

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

Career statistics

Honours

Individual *

Team of the Month:

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, November 2022,

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ewijk, Milan van 2000 births Living people Footballers from Amsterdam Dutch men's footballers Netherlands men's youth international footballers Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent Dutch people of Malaysian descent Men's association football fullbacks Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Tweede Divisie players English Football League players Excelsior Maassluis players ADO Den Haag players SC Cambuur players SC Heerenveen players Coventry City F.C. players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England 21st-century Dutch sportsmen