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| Full name | Julian Christopher Jenner[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1984-02-28)28 February 1984 (age 41) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Delft, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Winger,forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| DVV Delft | |||||||||||||||||
| Feyenoord | |||||||||||||||||
| TONEGIDO | |||||||||||||||||
| DHC | |||||||||||||||||
| NAC Breda | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | NAC Breda | 35 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | AZ | 46 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | →Vitesse (loan) | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Vitesse | 28 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | →Rot Weiss Ahlen (loan) | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | →NAC Breda (loan) | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Ferencváros | 45 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Diósgyőr | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Notts County | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 214 | (25) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Netherlands U21 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Julian Christopher Jenner (born 28 February 1984) is a Dutch former professionalfootballer who played as awinger.
Known for his faststep over move, Jenner began his professional career withNAC Breda, and grew into one of the most promisingwingers in theEredivisie. He moved toAZ in 2006, where he was mostly a reserve after a good first season. A three-year stint followed withVitesse, where he also never managed to grow into a starter and was sent on two loan spells. He then moved abroad to play in Hungary and has a short stint in England before retiring in January 2016.
A youth international, Jenner was part of theNetherlands U21 team winning gold at the2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship at home.
Jenner started playing football at amateur club DVV Delft. Afterwards, he played for one year atFeyenoord, before returning to DVV and later playing forTONEGIDO. Jenner then moved to the youth academy ofDHC, where his father was a coach.[3] He was part of a talented team at DHC, and was invited to trials withAjax andNAC Breda, eventually choosing to join the latter.[3] He progressed through several youth teams there, and eventually reached the second team, Jong NAC.
Towards the end of the 2003–04 season, Jenner had the opportunity to play in the first team. Due to many injuries in the squad, the then head coachTon Lokhoff decided to add him to the bench in the match againstAZ on 1 May 2004. After 83 minutes,Anouar Diba was taken off the pitch and Jenner made his professional debut. He later recalled that he was tackled harshly by AZ legendBarry van Galen, whom he later befriended.[3] The game ended in a 2–2 draw.[4] In the following season, Jenner was unable to make a definitive break through and he only played 5 games in which he managed to score once.[5] In the 2005–06 season, Jenner was able to consolidate himself as a starter for NAC. He played alongsidePierre van Hooijdonk andJohan Vonlanthen in attack, among others.
In the summer of 2006, Jenner left for AZ, a team coached byLouis van Gaal, where he was seen as the replacement ofStein Huysegems who had moved to Feyenoord.[6][7] In the 2006–07 season, Jenner came on as a substitute in theUEFA Cup game against Czech clubSlovan Liberec. He scored the 2–2 equaliser in the 89th minute – a chip ball over goalkeeperMarek Čech – which secured AZ's advancement to the third round.[8] The club finished the season in disappointing fashion, losing out on theEredivisie title by three points, and losing to Ajax in the subsequent play-offs for a place in theUEFA Champions League.[3]
On 14 June 2008, it was announced that Jenner signed a contract withVitesse, together with teammateRogier Molhoek.[9] In his first season he made 21 appearances, partly due to a change of head coach. Where his first coachHans Westerhof utilised Jenner as a winger, his successorTheo Bos played a system without wingers.[10] In his second season, Jenner played four games with Vitesse and was sent on a six-month loan toRot-Weiss Ahlen in the2. Bundesliga in January 2010.[11] There, Jenner played eleven games and scored one goal.[12] When he returned toArnhem in the summer of 2010, Jenner indicated that he was ready to stay to challenge for a place in the starting lineup.[10] In the winter break, Jenner was found redundant by managerAlbert Ferrer;[13] on the last day of the transfer window, Vitesse sent him on loan to NAC Breda for the rest of the season.[14] In the summer of 2011, Jenner returned to Vitesse.[15]
In September 2012, Jenner signed with Hungarian clubFerencváros. After two years with the Hungarian club, Jenner retired from football on 9 September 2014 and announced that he would continue as a youth coach at his former club Vitesse.[16] A month and a half later he accepted an offer fromDiósgyőr and continued his active career.[17]
In July 2015, after a week of trial, Jenner signed a one-year contract withNotts County, who had just suffered relegation to theEFL League Two.[18] Jenner was reunited with fellow countrymanRicardo Moniz, who was also his manager at Ferencváros in the 2012–13 season. After the resignation of Moniz, he left the club at the end of January 2016 and retired from football. After his active football career, Julian Jenner married a Hungarian citizen woman. He is currently an assistant coach and personal development coach at the Hungarian football club MTK.[3]
In 2007, Jenner was called up byJong Oranje coachFoppe de Haan to be part of his squad for the2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship held in the Netherlands. Jenner participated in both of their first round group matches againstIsrael (1–0 win) andPortugal (2–1 win) to secure a semi final spot and to qualify for the2008 Summer Olympics. Later the final was reached with a 1–1, 13–12 win after a penalty shootout with 32 penalty kicks taken againstEngland. The Dutch went on to retain their 2006 title by beatingSerbia 4–1 in the final.
A technically giftedwinger, Jenner was famous for hisstep over.[3][19] He learned the dribbling move by watching video tapes ofDennis Bergkamp in his childhood.[20]
Ferencváros
Netherlands U21
