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Jan Mulder

Jan Mulder is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy , a member party of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe...

Johan ("Jan") Mulder (born 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde

Bellingwolde

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, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

) is a former Dutch football

Football (soccer)

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 striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 who played for R.S.C. Anderlecht

R.S.C. Anderlecht

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA , is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht plays in the Belgian Pro League and is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions as well as in the...

 and AFC Ajax. He also played five matches for the Netherlands

Netherlands national football team

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, scoring once. Mulder was topscorer of the 1966-67 season in the Belgian Jupiler League

Jupiler League

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. His son Youri

Youri Mulder

Youri Mulder is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a striker and also a manager.-Club career:...

 also grew up to become a football player, spending most of his career in the German Bundesliga at FC Schalke 04

FC Schalke 04

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 until he retired in 2002.

After his football career had ended, Mulder became a well-known writer, columnist and television-personality in the Netherlands, making his debut analysing a match of the Dutch national football team broadcast by TV channel RTL4 in 1996. From that point onwards he would frequently guest star in the RTL4 shows by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp, who presented both football-related programmes as well as talkshows concerning more political and social/public subjects. After having been a daily guest-star on the show 'Villa BvD', a football show during the 1998 World Cup

1998 World Cup

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 in France (also hosted by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp), Mulder made more and more TV appearances until finally becoming daily guest-star on the late-night talkshow 'Barend & Van Dorp' since March 1999, until the show stopped in April 2006.

The final season of 'Barend & Van Dorp' was shown on the channel Talpa, who had bought the programme from RTL4 during the summer of 2005. Jan Mulder also frequently appeared on another show that was broadcast by Talpa; 'Eredivisie - De Wedstrijden', which aires several times a week and shows highlights of the Dutch Football League (the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

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).

Mulder has also written several works, ranging from ultra-short stories to novels. Most people will associate his name with 'CaMu', the partnership between Remco Campert

Remco Campert

Remco Campert is a Dutch author, poet and columnist.-Early years:Remco Wouter Campert was born in The Hague, son of writer and poet Jan Campert, author of the poem De achttien dooden, and actress Joekie Broedelet...

 and Jan Mulder that has been writing daily front-page columns for national newspaper De Volkskrant

De Volkskrant

de Volkskrant is a national daily Dutch morning newspaper, the leading centre-left broadsheet, although now in tabloid size.-History:...

since 1995. These columns are traditionally bundled into books entitled 'CaMu Jaaroverzicht' at the end of each year.

Primary bibliography

• 1988 Diva in Winschoten (short stories)
• 1992 De middagduivel
• 1994 Vuurspuger van Ootmarsum
• 1994 Spreek en vergissing (novel)
• 1996 Mobieliquette
• 1999 Villa BvD
• 2000 Overwinningen en Nederlagen
• 2001 Spelers en speelsters
• 2001 Hollandse Velden
• 2002 De vrouw als karretje
• 2002 Strafschopgebieden & Reserves
• 2002 Opkomst en Ondergang
• 2003 Iris in de zomer van 2003