JOS HOOIVELD WEEK: 18th to 24th September

From Wikipedia.......

Jos Hooiveld (Dutch pronunciation: [jɔs ˈhoːifɛlt]; born 22 April 1983 in Zeijen, Drenthe) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Championship side Southampton on loan from Scottish Premier League side Celtic.

He started his career with Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen in 2003, before moving to Eerste Divisie side Zwolle, on loan, between 2004 and 2006. In 2006 he moved to Austrian Erste Liga side Kapfenberger SV and one year later moved to Finnish side Inter Turku. During his time there he won both the 2008 Veikkausliiga and 2008 League Cup as well as being named the defender of the year twice. In 2009 Swedish side AIK Stockholm signed him and he won the 2009 Allsvenskan and the 2009 Svenska Cupen. He moved to Scottish Premier League side Celtic in January 2010 but after one year was loaned out to Danish Superliga club FC Copenhagen. He then moved on loan to English Championship club Southampton for the start of the 2011-12 season.



Heerenveen

Hooiveld started his professional career for Heerenveen in 2003, when he came on as a substitute for Petter Hansson. In the next season he made twelve appearances in the League mostly as a left full-back, starting in five of those matches which included wins over Ajax and PSV. He could not force his way to the first team the following season and was loaned to Zwolle in January 2005 for a 18 months. He left the club in the summer of 2006 joining Austrian club Kapfenberg.

Zwolle

Hooiveld made his debut for Zwolle in February 2005 in a 0–0 draw, playing as a left full-back where he played most of his matches for the club with brief moves to midfield and central defence. In total he made forty-four League appearances during his loan spell scoring three goals.

Kapfenberger SV

Hooiveld's football career almost ended due to problems with the club and management. In April 2007, after just eight months at the club and having made just fourteen appearances, Hooiveld signed a two year contract with Inter Turku.

Inter Turku

In his first season with Inter Turku 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 and was also named Veikkausliiga Defender of the season. In the beginning of the 2008 season he won the League Cup, when FC Inter beat their local rival TPS in the final. He went on to win the League with Inter Turku that season which was the first time the club had won the League and was again named Veikkausliiga Defender of the season for the second time in only two years in Finland – impressively Turku kept sixteen clean-sheets in the League in twenty-six matches in which Hooiveld played. After two successful years in Finland for Inter Turku, he signed for AIK in January 2009 after playing fifty-two League matches for Inter scoring 4 goals.

AIK Stockholm

Hooiveld made his debut for AIK on 5 April 2009 in a 1–0 win of Halmstads in Allsvenskan. He won Allsvenskan in season 2009 with AIK the first time the club had won it in eleven years. The club also won Svenska Cupen in 2009, making it the first time in their history AIK had done the Double.

Hooiveld made a total of 31 appearances for the club during his one season. Mikael Stahre wished Hooiveld well on his move commenting "Jos has, during this year, helped and contributed to the winning mentality that characterizes AIK. Idols come and go, AIK remains. We wish him well in his future career."

Celtic

On 11 January 2010, Celtic announced that Hooiveld had signed a three and a half year deal with the club, with the fee believed to be around £1,400,000. Hooiveld was given the number 16 shirt, vacated by Willo Flood after his transfer to Middlesbrough. He made his debut for Celtic against Hamilton Academical on 30 January 2010. In his following game, against Kilmarnock, Hooiveld went off with a thigh injury, and did not make another appearance for Celtic that season.

The following season, Hooiveld was given the number 6 shirt after Landry N'Guemo returned to AS Nancy. He made his European debut for the Glasgow side in a 3-0 Champions League defeat to Portuguese side Braga. He made his first appearance since the Braga match against Aberdeen in the SPL as a second half sub for Niall McGinn.

F.C. Copenhagen

On 19 January 2011, Hooiveld joined Copenhagen on loan until the end of the season. Hooiveld made 11 appearances for Copenhagen (four as substitute) but on 28 May 2011 the club announced that they would not be taking up the option to make the move permanent.

Southampton

On 31 August 2011, the final day of the summer transfer window, Hooiveld joined Southampton on a loan deal until January 2012.

Nice to see Jos marked Jos Hooiveld Week by scoring his first goal since 2008, the 8th goal of his career.