Mandy van den Berg
Mandy van den Berg is a Dutch football defender who plays for PSV and the Netherlands national team. She formerly played club football in the Eredivisie Vrouwen for ADO Den Haag, for Vittsjö GIK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan and for LSK Kvinner FK of the Norwegian Toppserien.
Club career
After spending three seasons in Sweden with Vittsjö, Van den Berg signed for LSK Kvinner of Lillestrøm, Norway in December 2014.LSK Kvinner secured a double in 2015, but Van den Berg left after one season to join English FA WSL club Liverpool. She played 13 times for Liverpool, who finished fifth in WSL 1, then transferred to Reading at the end of the season.
International career
Van den Berg began playing football aged six and was called up for the Netherlands Under-17 team while still at school in her native Naaldwijk. After winning 22 caps at Under-19 level, Van den Berg debuted for the senior Netherlands women's national football team on 15 December 2010. She replaced captain Daphne Koster for the second half of a 3–1 win over Mexico during a friendly tournament in Brazil.National team coach Roger Reijners named Van den Berg in his final squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden. When she suffered knee ligament damage shortly before the tournament, Merel van Dongen was called up as a late replacement.
At the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Van den Berg captained the Netherlands in their first ever appearance at the World Cup finals.
Van den Berg also captained the team that won the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 tournament. She made 4 appearances for the team at the tournament; starting 2 group stage games and being used as a substitute in two knockout games.
International goals
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
1. | 21 September 2011 | TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification | |
2. | 23 November 2013 | Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands | 7–0 | 7–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | |
3. | 5 April 2014 | Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece | 4–0 | 6–0 | 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | |
4. | 2 March 2016 | Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands | 3–1 | 4–3 | 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament | |
5. | 6 March 2017 | Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2017 Algarve Cup | |
6. | 8 July 2017 | Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5–0 | 5–0 | Friendly |
Honours
Club
;ADO Den Haag- Eredivisie : 2011–12
- KNVB Women's Cup : 2011–12
- Toppserien : 2015
- Norwegian Women's Cup : 2015
International
- UEFA Women's Euro : 2017