Mandy van den Berg

Mandy van den Berg

Personal information
Full name	Mandy van den Berg
Date of birth	26 August 1990
Place of birth	Naaldwijk, Netherlands
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Liverpool
Number	4
Youth career
	Westlandia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2007–2012	ADO Den Haag	57	(7)
2012–2014	Vittsjö GIK	47	(2)
2015	LSK Kvinner FK	11	(0)
2016–	Liverpool	0	(0)
National team^‡
2010–	Netherlands	68[2]	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:46, 21 January 2016 (UTC). † Appearances (goals) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Mandy van den Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛndi vɑn dɛn bɛrx]; born 26 August 1990) is a Dutch football defender who plays for FA WSL club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. 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.

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]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

National sports Roger Reijners named Van den Berg in his final squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.^[7] When she suffered knee ligament damage shortly before the tournament, Merel van Dongen was called up as a late replacement.^[8]

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]

International goals

Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	26 October 2013	Estádio José de Carvalho, Maia, Portugal	Portugal	4–0	7–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2.	23 November 2013	Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Greece	7–0	7–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
3.	5 April 2014	Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece	Greece	4–0	6–0	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
4.	2 March 2016	Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands	Switzerland	3–1	4–3	2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

References

1. "List of Players - 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
2. "Profile". FIFA.com. 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 droomt van het grote Oranje" (in Dutch). Het Hele Westland. 16 February 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
6. Maarten de Jong (24 December 2010). "EXCLUSIEF – Interview met Mandy van den Berg" (in Dutch). Voetbal Centraal. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
7. "Trio miss cut in Netherlands squad". UEFA.com. UEFA. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
8. Scholten, Berend (1 July 2013). "Van Dongen replaces Van den Berg for Oranje". UEFA.com. UEFA. Retrieved 23 July 2013.

External links

• van den Berg profile on Onsoranje (in Dutch)
• van den Berg profile on women's Netherlands (in Dutch)
• van den Berg profile on UEFA.com
• van den Berg profile on Svensk Fotboll