Mandy van den Berg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛndi vɑn dəm ˈbɛr(ə)x]; born 26 August 1990) is a Dutch football defender who plays for PSV and formerly for the Netherlands 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.
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Full name | Mandy van den Berg[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1990-08-26) 26 August 1990 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Naaldwijk, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club 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) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2010–2017 | Netherlands | 90 | (6) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 May 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 December 2017 |
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]
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] She left the national team after the European cup and did not play on the 2019 World Cup silver medalist squad.[11]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 21 September 2011 | TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands | ![]() | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification |
2. | 23 November 2013 | Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 7–0 | 7–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
3. | 5 April 2014 | Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece | 4–0 | 6–0 | ||
4. | 2 March 2016 | Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands | ![]() | 3–1 | 4–3 | 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
5. | 6 March 2017 | Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal | ![]() | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2017 Algarve Cup |
6. | 8 July 2017 | Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ![]() | 5–0 | 5–0 | Friendly |
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