Serge van den Ban

Serge van den Ban
Personal information
Full name	Serge van den Ban
Date of birth	2 February 1980 (age 42)
Place of birth	Haarlem, Netherlands
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	Arsenal
Youth career
	DCO
	Ajax
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2002	Haarlem
2002–2004	FC Dordrecht
2004–2008	MVV
2008	Telstar
2009–2010	ADO '20
2010–2013	Ter Leede
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Serge van den Ban (born 2 February 1980), is a Dutch retired football goalkeeper who currently works as a goalkeeping coach at the Arsenal football academy.^[1]

Club career[]

Born in Haarlem, Van den Ban came through the youth ranks at AFC Ajax. He then in 2000 started playing professionally for Haarlem in the Eerste Divisie for two seasons. Subsequently, he went to the Eredivisie with FC Dordrecht who moved to the Eerste Divisie the following season. Van Den Ban in 2004 rejoined the Eredivisie with the outfit MVV Maastricht with whom he got to the quarter finals of the 2006 KNVB Cup^[2]

He then moved to Telstar where he featuring once again in the Eerste Divisie within the 2007-08 season.^[3] Van Den Ban then linked up a year later with Hoofdklasse team ADO '20.^[4] He then signed with outfit Ter Leede in the 2010-11 season of the Hoofdklasse. He brought an end to his player career shortly afterward. Van Den Ban made in all over 250 appearances throughout his footballing club career.^[1]

International career[]

Van den Ban played at youth level for the Netherlands^[5] He was also crowned the best goalkeeper of the 1999 Eurovoetbal tournament.

Coaching career[]

Van Den Ban coached in prior at clubs Ajax, FC Utrecht and AZ Alkmaar together with the Holland's U15 team. He is currently linked up as of July 2015 with English side Arsenal as the goalkeeping coach of the club's Under 6 to Under 16 teams.^[1]