Mandy van den Berg

Mandy van den Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛndi vɑn dəm ˈbɛr(ə)x]; born 26 August 1990) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a defender for PSV and formerly for the Netherlands women's national team.[2] She formerly played club football in the Eredivisie Vrouwen for ADO Den Haag, for Vittsjö GIK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan and for LSK Kvinner FK of the Norwegian Toppserien.

In this Dutch name, the surname is van den Berg, not Berg.
Mandy van den Berg
Personal information
Full name Mandy van den Berg[1]
Date of birth (1990-08-26) 26 August 1990
Place of birth Naaldwijk, Netherlands
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 PSV
Number 4
Youth career
Westlandia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2012 ADO Den Haag 57 (7)
2012–2014 Vittsjö GIK 47 (3)
2015 LSK Kvinner FK 11 (0)
2016 Liverpool 10 (0)
2016–2017 Reading 6 (1)
2018–2020 Valencia 23 (1)
2020– PSV 13 (0)
International career‡
2010–2017 Netherlands 90 (6)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing the  Netherlands
UEFA Women's Championship
Gold medal – first place2017 NetherlandsTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 May 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 December 2017

Club career

After spending three seasons in Sweden with Vittsjö, Van den Berg signed for LSK Kvinner of Lillestrøm, Norway in December 2014.[3]

LSK Kvinner secured a double in 2015, but Van den Berg left after one season to join English FA WSL club Liverpool.[4] She played 13 times for Liverpool, who finished fifth in WSL 1, then transferred to Reading at the end of the season.[5]

International career

Van den Berg began playing football aged six and was called up for the Netherlands Under-17 team while still at school in her native Naaldwijk.[6] After winning 22 caps at Under-19 level, Van den Berg debuted for the senior Netherlands women's national football team on 15 December 2010. She replaced captain Daphne Koster for the second half of a 3–1 win over Mexico during a friendly tournament in Brazil.[7]

National team coach Roger Reijners named Van den Berg in his final squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[8] When she suffered knee ligament damage shortly before the tournament, Merel van Dongen was called up as a late replacement.[9]

At the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Van den Berg captained the Netherlands in their first ever appearance at the World Cup finals.[4]

Van den Berg also captained the team that won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 tournament. She made 4 appearances for the team at the tournament; starting 2 group stage games and being used as a substitute in two knockout games.[10] After the tournament, the whole team was honoured by the Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister of Sport Edith Schippers and made Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[11]

She left the national team after the European cup and did not play on the 2019 World Cup silver medalist squad.[12]

International goals
Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.[13]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.21 September 2011TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands Serbia2–06–02013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification
2.23 November 2013Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands Greece7–07–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
3.5 April 2014Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece4–06–0
4.2 March 2016Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands Switzerland3–14–32016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
5.6 March 2017Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal Sweden1–01–02017 Algarve Cup
6.8 July 2017Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands Wales5–05–0Friendly

Honours

Club
ADO Den Haag
LSK Kvinner
  • Toppserien (1): 2015
  • Norwegian Women's Cup (1): 2015

International
Netherlands

Individual

Personal life

Van den Berg is in a relationship with Spanish footballer Georgina Carreras.[14]

References
  1. "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. "Profile". FIFA. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  3. "Lämnar Vittsjö för Norge" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  4. "Ladies sign Netherlands captain Van Den Berg". Liverpool F.C. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. "Mandy van den Berg joins Reading Women from Liverpool Ladies". BBC Sport. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  6. "Mandy van den Berg droomt van het grote Oranje" (in Dutch). Het Hele Westland. 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  7. Maarten de Jong (24 December 2010). "EXCLUSIEF – Interview met Mandy van den Berg" (in Dutch). Voetbal Centraal. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  8. "Trio miss cut in Netherlands squad". UEFA. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  9. Scholten, Berend (1 July 2013). "Van Dongen replaces Van den Berg for Oranje". UEFA. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  10. "Wiegman kiest Oranjeselectie voor WEURO 2017". onsoranje.nl. 14 June 2017.
  11. "Voetbalsters Oranje geridderd in Den Haag (in Dutch)". NOS.nl.
  12. "Wiegman lijkt Captain van den Berg te passeren voor cruciaal duel". vi.nl. 23 July 2017.
  13. "Profile". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  14. "FOTO | Van den Berg deelt heuglijk nieuws: "Onze liefde groeit"".
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