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Jan van Deinsen
	van Deinsen in 1976
Personal information
Date of birth	19 June 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth	Tiel, Netherlands
Position(s)	Left midfielder
Youth career
	TSV Theole
	NEC Nijmegen
Senior career*
Years	Team
1971–1974	NEC
1974–1976	Go Ahead Eagles
1976–1983	Feyenoord
Total
International career
1980	Netherlands
Managerial career
1989–1990	Nigeria (assistant)
1990	Achilles '29
1991–1992	TOP Oss (assistant)
1995–1996	NAC (assistant)
1997–2000	TOP Oss (technical director)
2000–2002	Go Ahead Eagles (assistant)
2002–2003	Babberich
2003–2004	MVV
2004–2005	Vitesse (assistant)
2006–2008	Trinidad and Tobago (assistant)
2008–2009	JVC Cuijk
2009–2010	Vitesse (assistant)
2010–2012	JVC Cuijk
2012–2013	Achilles '29
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jan van Deinsen (born 19 June 1953) is a Dutch former football player and manager who played as a left midfielder.

Club career

van Deinsen was born in Tiel, Gelderland. He made his professional debut for NEC on 12 September 1971 against SC Telstar and also played for Go Ahead Eagles, before joining Dutch giants Feyenoord for whom he played for seven years.^[1] He won the 1979–80 KNVB Cup with the club, but he had to quit football in 1984 due to injuries of his achilles tendon.

International career

He obtained one cap for the Netherlands national team, when they lost to the Republic of Ireland on 10 September 1980 in Dublin.^[2]

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, van Deinsen coached amateur sides Babberich and JVC Cuijk and was assistant at several professional clubs as well as to fellow Dutch managers Clemens Westerhof at Nigeria and Wim Rijsbergen at Trinidad and Tobago.^[3] In 2003 he was named manager of Eerste Divisie club MVV,^[4] only to leave them in February 2004.^[5]