{{Short description|Dutch footballer (1921–2005)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name= Joop Stoffelen | fullname = Johannes Hendricus Stoffelen | image = Joop Stoffelen (1950).png | caption = Stoffelen in 1950 | birth_date = 23 January 1921 | birth_place = [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|6|26|1921|1|23|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Lelystad]], Netherlands | height = | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = [[Midfielder]] | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = SEO | youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] | years1 = 1940–1950 | years2 = 1950–1951 | years3 = 1951–1953 | years4 = 1953–1954 | years5 = 195?–195? | clubs1 = [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] | clubs2 = [[Racing Club de France Football|RC Paris]] | clubs3 = [[Toulouse FC (1937)|Toulouse]] | clubs4 = [[Blauw-Wit Amsterdam]] | clubs5 = Neerlandia | caps1 = 193 | goals1 = 22 | caps2 = 10 | goals2 = 0 | caps3 = 6 | goals3 = 0 | caps4 = | goals4 = | caps5 = | goals5 = | nationalyears1 = 1947–1950 | nationalteam1 = [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] | nationalcaps1 = 12 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = [[VVA/Spartaan|De Spartaan]] | manageryears2 = | managerclubs2 = [[RKSV DCG|DCG]] }}
'''Johannes Hendricus "Joop" Stoffelen''' (23 January 1921 – 26 June 2005) was a Dutch [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Midfielder (association football)|midfielder]]. Stoffelen mainly played for [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]], but also had stints at [[Racing Club de France Football|RC Paris]], [[Toulouse FC (1937)|Toulouse]], [[Blauw-Wit Amsterdam]] and Neerlandia.
==Career== Stoffelen was fifteen years old when he first appeared for [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]]. Before that, he played with the amateurs of SEO, where he ended up in the first team after only three years of playing organised football.<ref name="nrc-stoffelen">{{cite news |title=De stopperspil met het brilletje |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2005/06/27/de-stopperspil-met-het-brilletje-gerectificeerd-10553215-a817701 |access-date=24 December 2020 |work=[[NRC Handelsblad]] |date=27 June 2005 |language=Dutch}}</ref> In the time that Stoffelen ended up at Ajax in late 1930s, it was [[World War II|wartime]] and at that time Ajax lost many players to the [[mobilization]]. It was also the period in which the successful team of the 1930s needed to be replaced.<ref name="legends" />
Stoffelen made his debut as a [[central midfielder]], replacing the legendary [[Wim Anderiesen]] in this position.<ref name="legends">{{cite web |title=Voetballegends - Joop Stoffelen |url=https://www.voetballegends.nl/site/profile.php?id=185 |website=voetballegends.nl |access-date=24 December 2020 |language=Dutch}}</ref> On 24 March 1940, Stoffelen made his debut against KFC Koog aan de Zaan. After two and a half seasons in the position, Stoffelen moved to left midfielder. From that moment on, [[Jany van der Veen]] was preferred centrally.<ref name="legends" /> As a left mid, Stoffelen was highly appreciated. In the meantime he had also been promoted to [[Captain (association football)|team captain]]. He was also part of the Dutch squad for the [[1948 Summer Olympics]], but he did not play in any matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/701189 |title=Joop Stoffelen |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref>
In the 1950–51 season he became the second Ajax player to become a professional abroad. In that season, he left for the French club [[Racing Club de France Football|RC Paris]]. He only played half a season with this club and then left for [[Toulouse FC (1937)|Toulouse]]. After two years in Toulouse, Stoffelen returned to the Netherlands. When he returned, he was only allowed to play football again after a year due to strict rules on professionalism in the Netherlands. On professionalism in football, Stoffelen since stated: "''Sport om den brode is geen sport''" ("sports for bread is not sports").<ref name="vi">{{cite news |title=Oud-international Joop Stoffelen overleden |url=https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/oudinternational-joop-stoffelen-overleden |access-date=24 December 2020 |work=[[Voetbal International]] |date=26 June 2005 |language=Dutch}}</ref> He returned to amateur football after serving a suspension, at [[Blauw-Wit Amsterdam]]. Afterwards played for a while at Neerlandia, where he also became a coach.<ref name="lelystad">{{cite news |title=Voetbalinternational Joop Stoffelen uit Lelystad overleden |url=https://www.omroepflevoland.nl/sport/25138/voetbalinternational-joop-stoffelen-uit-lelystad-overleden |access-date=24 December 2020 |work=Omroep Flevoland |date=27 June 2005 |language=Dutch}}</ref> He later also managed [[VVA/Spartaan|De Spartaan]] and [[RKSV DCG|DCG]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ten Asbroek |first1=Harry |title=Een spartaanse leidensweg |url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?identifier=ABCDDD:010839664:mpeg21:p015 |access-date=24 December 2020 |work=[[Het Parool]] |date=16 August 1977 |language=Dutch |quote=En zo klopte Rein Holster voor de derde maal in zijn leven aan bij De Spartaan, waar inmiddels Joop Stoffelen de trainingsscepter zwaaide.}}</ref> and became coach of a team of former internationals. Only in 1992 he was fired by the [[Royal Dutch Football Association]] (KNVB) as coach of the former internationals.<ref name="lelystad" />
Stoffelen died on 26 June 2005 at age 84 in [[Lelystad]].<ref name="vi" /><ref name="lelystad" />
==References== {{reflist}}
===Citations=== *{{cite book | author=Barreaud, Marc | title=Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997) | year=1998 | publisher=L'Harmattan, Paris | isbn=2-7384-6608-7}}
==External links== *[http://www.ajaxusa.com/news/2004-2005/in-memoriam-joop-stoffelen-1921-2005.html In memoriam: Joop Stoffelen (1921-2005)] *[http://www.ajax.nl/web/show/id=65606 Profile at Ajax official site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080402034831/http://www.voetbalstats.nl/nedxi/sp487.html International career]
{{Netherlands Squad 1948 Summer Olympics}}
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