Johan Derksen

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Johannes Gerrit "Johan" Derksen (born 31 January 1949) is a Dutch sports journalist and former footballer.

He played professionally for five franchises between 1966 and 1978: Go Ahead Eagles, Cambuur Leeuwarden, BV Veendam, HFC Haarlem, and MVV Maastricht.

He became well-known as a sports writer, specialized in football, during and after his active career.

He served as the editor-in-chief of Voetbal International from 2000 to his retirement in 2013, the Netherlands' most influential football journal.

Derksen was also a television football analyst on RTL7's Voetbal International; the Veronica Inside show on Veronica TV has him in the same role.

Early life

Derksen was born in Heteren, Gelderland, as an only child in a Protestant household. Both professionally and at home, he characterized his father as a tenacious policeman. Derksen said that his father wanted him to play as a professional football player rather than a drummer; Derksen was already a member of the local football team SDOO Heteren.

When he was a boy, his family moved to Drenthe, where he later played for amateur football teams Nieuw-Buinen and Rolder Boys. Derksen then moved to Deventer, where they joined the Go Ahead Eagles' youth academy.

Personal life

Derksen has been married three times. He lost his wife in a car crash, leaving him and his 12-year-old daughter behind at 41 years old. He married a younger woman with whom he has just one child. They separated after a year. He met and married his current spouse; they do not have children together, but his step-son now works at Voetbal International as a photographer. Derksen is both a republican and a stalist atheist.

Derksen's greatest passion is music. He has been a fan of blues and soul music. He encountered singer Harry Muskee of the Dutch blues band Cuby & the Blizzards, who became his idol as an adolescent. The band disbanded in 1972, and Henk Aa and Jan Lagendijk, a businessman, formed "Cuby is back" in 1996, a charity that promised to return the band to the band in 1996. The band members reunited and recorded a new album later in the year, though their tour was deemed a success.

In the late 1970s, Derksen worked for the American record label Stax. As a journalist in Haarlem, it was part of his job to ensure that the visiting American musicians had everything they needed. Since he accompanied American soul artists to Amsterdam's red-light district De Wallen almost every week, he jokingly described himself as a "notorious whore hopper."

Derksen said he dislikes "good music"; for him, music is not strong enough. According to Derksen, the American singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury is the greatest performer of all time. Derksen has made plans to move to the United States, a nation he refers to as a "heaven of music." He said in 2012 that he would not return to the United States because of the death penalty.

Danny Vera's appearance in his television talkshows VI and Voetbal Inside sparked Vera's musical career, which was disappointing.

During concert tours of ensembles of blues artists, Derksen served as the ringmaster from 2014 to May 2022. After Derksen refused to apologise for having told a story on television about "penetrating an unconscious woman with a torch," AT Next's cooperation with Derksen ended on April 29, 2022.

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Club career

The Go Ahead Eagles are known for establishing one of the Netherlands' most renowned youth academies. Derksen was one of the six players in the club's boarding school, alongside Oeki Hoema, André van der Leij, Ger Veerman, Herman Tieselink, and Tiny Broers. The 19-year-old left-back joined Cambuur for a one-year deal in 1968.

He made his debut in a friendly against PEC Zwolle on August 1, 1968, and quickly developed into a reliable defender known for his rough playing style. His employment was postponed for another year.

He injured his knee in a match against Vitesse and was obliged to decline an invitation from the Dutch military football team. He did not return before the start of the next season. He was employed as a textile salesman after completing his military service, as Cambuur was a semi-professional club. Derksen was transferred to Veendam in the summer of 1972.

Referee Gerard Jonker issued a yellow card in 1973 during Veendam's away match against Cambuur. Visser was seriously wounded in a shootout charged with Cambuur's center-back Sietse Visser, who was later released; Jonker did not call Derksen off; Visser was not charged. The crowd applauded Cambuur's chanted insults at Derksen, who gave the finger to the crowd. Later that night, the police closed the gates to ensure that Veendam would be granted a safe passage home. Cambuur won the game 3–1.

"They will certainly get a good licking," Derksen told the Cambuur players. Derksen's accusation fueled the discussion over the ever more offensive play on the pitch. Derksen received a monetary fine (150 fl.) For four games, he had been banned. Dick Nanninga (3 matches, 100 fl. ), his coworkers. (fine) and Jan Bont (1 match, 100 fl.) The Arbitration committee had also disciplined him.

Johan Derksen was added to the transfer list a week later by Veendam. Veendam said his participation in the match against Cambuur was "the last straw."

Despite rumors of a fl. sl. Deksen stayed in Groningen for another season after an 15.000 transfer contract with FC VVV. He was released by Veendam a year later. In the news, he said only five players (including himself) were good enough to play in the Eerste Divisie.

Haarlem signed Derksen on a half-year contract in January 1975, just shy of the 1975 transfer window.

Derksen made an impression right away, as he established the link Haarlem's defence had been postponed for a year. Haarlem, a Derksen family, won promotion back to the Eerste Divisie in 1975-1976.

In 1976, he signed for West German side SV Meppen, who were playing in the Oberliga Nord, Germany's third tier. Derksen, a footballer from Emmen, wanted to play for a more local team; Meppen is located across the German-Dutch border, while Haarlem is located in the western Netherlands; Meppen is located in the Netherlands.

Derksen made a television appearance in the "Mini-voetbal show" (English: mini football tournament), a futsal tournament and a campaign of VI and NCRV, the Northern Netherlands football team, in November 1976. Derksen was appointed coach of the Northern Netherlands team in 1977.

He did not play competitive football for eight months. He began a life with MVV Maastricht in 1977. The 28-year-old defender has signed a provisional deal that will continue to play until the end of the season. He was brought to replace John Webb, who left for the United States to fulfill his lengthy deal with Chicago Sting, but not before.

Despite the fact that Derksen did not play football for a long time, he did a good job in his first two games. "I am very happy with Johan Derksen," his boss George Knobel said. He has the expertise to deal with this sort of thing." "What the world had come to when creative players in the Eerste Divisie cannot freely practice their profession," Derksen wrote in a Voetbal International article in which he was heavily chastised. Derksen has been dubbed one of the most feared players in the Eerste Divisie.

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Journalistic career

He concentrated on his journalistic work throughout his career as a professional footballer. Derksen began writing in the regional newspaper Dagblad-Ooster, later becoming an editor for the Winschoter Courant and Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. He began working for the weekly publication Voetbal International (VI) on February 1, 1977. He has been the magazine's editor-in-chief since 2000. He confessed to writing for VI before working as a side job, and "Freek Zoontjes" and "Gerrit Westers" were invented as a result of his employer's permission.

In VI, Johan Derksen said that Cambuur had paid a significant amount to prevent Oeki Hoema from being suspended. When she was toileting, Derksen, a Vlaardingen player, Den Haag, said a few banknotes from a Cambuur official. Van Zon, a KNVB official who said he had laughed so hard when he heard the allegations: "Money handed out on the toilet?" De Volkskrant described it.

How did he come up with that?

I have seen it with my own eyes: the Cambuur representative gave the money to the witnesses. No, not on the toilet, but in the bar of our restaurant. It wasn't much money either if I recall correctly it was fl. At 50, the author's age was 50. Since all the witnesses had to fly from Rotterdam to here, those few ten-guilder notes weren't even enough to cover the witnesses' costs. The KNVB pays the fl. According to the engineer, "every kilometre" is equal to 0.35 per kilometer. "Well, that's a crappy tale," Derksen wrote, but then again, it's what we're used to. You want to know who was in court at the time? Me, another writer, and a man with a tape recorder. Derksen was missing at the time. Probably on the toilet."

Derksen agreed to become Veendam's next CEO in the spring of 2002. He will lead the club alongside boss Jan Korte and resign as editor-in-chief of Voetbal International, where he had been employed for nearly 25 years. He reversed his decision two days after being introduced as Henk Nienhuis' replacement. He did not agree to the terms that were offered to him because of the retirement arrangements. The deal, according to Derksen, is "outrageous and shameless."

Derksen has been chastised for his jokes and remarks against women, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT group in his work as a panelist on several television shows. Several Dutch football players and advertisers chastised him in 2020 for minimizing bigotry in the Netherlands and mocking a Zwarte Piet protester for possibly being black Dutch rapper Akwasi. In a cynical manner, Derksen compared the protester with the rapper, who later incites "I had never heard of Akwasi." During the [Black Lives Matter] demonstration at the Dam Square, I saw him yelling and inciting violence. It was a peaceful and positive protest. How can it be that such a person hijacks a protest? Veronica, the television broadcaster, refused to reprimand Derksen, and he did not retract his words nor apologize. With the application Veronica Inside, a number of companies revisited their advertising contracts. In addition, the Dutch national football team's internationals had decided against the program.

"In April 2022, Derksen declared on his television talkshow Vandaag Inside that during his time in Veendam, he and the club's goalkeeper "penetrated an unconscious woman with a candle," according to Derksen, "technically a prosecutor could have seen the play as rape." Derksen characterized the event as a "new mistake." Several influential Dutch people said the following day that Derksen should be barred from television. The Dutch prosecutors launched an investigation "aimed at establishing the truth of suspected criminal conduct that was not addressed in the program." Derksen himself has declined to apologize for the incident, which claimed that "it occurred in the zeitgeist of then." He did retract the sexual harassment tale on April 27th, saying he had not penetrated the woman but that he had tied a candle between her legs. Dick Ploeger, Veendam's goalkeeper, admitted he didn't recall the event and that he didn't believe the tale to be true. Derksen's tale was fake, according to René van der Gijp and Johan Boskamp of Vandaag Inside. On April 29, Derksen and his colleagues at Vandaag Inside resigned from the program, but Vandaag Inside and Vandaag Inside returned on television on May 16, 2022. Prosecutors had questioned Derksen, but the accusation was dismissed due to the fact that no evidence could be established, but the criminal investigation into the matter was concluded on June 2nd, 2022. The suspected perpetrator was not arrested because she had not been identified.

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