Jos Hooiveld

Jos Hooiveld

Personal information
Full name	Jos Hooiveld
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Celtic

Jos Hooiveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɔs ˈhoːifɛlt]; born 22 April 1983, Zeijen) is a Dutch footballer who plays for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.

Career

Hooiveld started his professional career for SC Heerenveen in 2003, when he came in as a substitute for Petter Hansson. In the next two season he couldn't make his way to the first team and was loaned to second tier's FC Zwolle for a season and a half. After the loan spell he left Heerenveen for Austrian First League club Kapfenberger SV. There his football career was near to end due to problems with the club, but his agent founded a better place for him when he signed a two year contract with Finnish Veikkausliiga club FC Inter Turku. In his first season he was voted as the MVP in the Finnish League Cup and after the season he was chosen as the best player of the season by a Finnish magazine Iltalehti. In the beginning of the next season he won the League Cup, when FC Inter beat their local rival TPS in the final. He was 2007 and 2008 the best defender in the Veikkausliiga.

On 11 January 2010 Celtic announced that Hooiveld had signed a three and a half yeal deal with the club, with the fee believed to be around £1,400,000.

Career Statistics

Club career

As of 11 January 2010

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External links

• Profile on FCInter.com
• Stats on Veikkausliiga.com
• Stats on Soccerterminal.com
• Profile + Stats on CelticTalk.org