Ronaldus "Ron" Franciscus Johannes Steens (born 18 June 1952) is a former

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player from

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, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in

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. Eight years earlier the midfielder was also on the Holland squad, that ended up fourth at the

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. Steens, a powerful midfield player who played club hockey for

HC Klein Zwitserland Hockey Club Klein Zwitserland, commonly known as Klein Zwitserland, is a Dutch field hockey club based in The Hague, South Holland. The women and men's first team compete in the hoofdklasse, the highest league of Dutch field hockey. The club wa ...

, earned a total number of 166 caps, scoring 43 goals, in the years 1973–1985. He retired from international hockey a year before the

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. His younger brother Tim was also a field hockey international for Holland. Nowadays, Ron Steens works as a HR consultant at GITP, a HRD consultancy firm, founded in 1947 in collaboration with the

Nijmegen University Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

and the

Tilburg School of Economics Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-l ...

(Netherlands).

References

External links

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Dutch Hockey Federation

GITP
Edo Buma and brothers Steens 1976

{{DEFAULTSORT:Steens, Ron 1952 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Rotterdam Field hockey players from South Holland HC Klein Zwitserland players 1978 Men's Hockey World Cup players 20th-century Dutch people