Go Ahead Eagles

His first professional football club was Go Ahead Eagles

Go Ahead Eagles

The Go Ahead Eagles are a football club from Deventer, Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home stadium is De Adelaarshorst. To date, the club has won the national championship four times...

, where he stayed for two years. Go Ahead Eagles was famous back then for having the country's most successful youth academy. Derksen was one of the six players in the club's boarding school together with Oekie Hoekema, André van der Leij, Ger Veerman, Herman Tieselink and Tiny Broers. He did however not make it in Deventer

Deventer

Deventer is a municipality and city in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel. Deventer is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen Deventer is a municipality and city in...

 and the 19-year-old left-back then signed a one-year-contract with Cambuur Leeuwarden.

Cambuur Leeuwarden (1968-1972)

He made a good debut on August 1, 1968 in a friendly against PEC Zwolle, and quickly developed into a reliable defender notorious for his rough playing style. His contract was extended by another year.

In a game against Vitesse Arnhem

Vitesse Arnhem

Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse is a Dutch football club from Arnhem, which was founded on 14 May 1892. Vitesse has had considerable success in the Eredivisie, and featured in the UEFA Cup competition, but has never been considered a close competitor of the top three clubs of Netherlands...

 he injured

Injury

-By cause:*Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident*Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite*Injury from infection...

 his knee and was forced to decline an invitation from the Dutch military football team. He did not return before the start of the next season.
After fulfilling his military service

Military service

Military service, in its simplest sense, is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft . Some nations require a specific amount of military service from every citizen...

 he was employed as a textile salesman. At the time Cambuur Leeuwarden was a semi-professional

Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional...

 football club, meaning that at least a quarter of the players were amateurs and the rest were semi-professional

Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional...

. Derksen was punished multiple times for his reckless behaviour on the pitch. Nevertheless, most people agreed it was better to have the fierce player on one's own side rather than on the opposing side. In the summer of 1972 Derksen was transferred to Veendam (now known as BV Veendam

BV Veendam

SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...

).

Veendam (1972-1975)

Derksen continued the playing style he had developed in the past years. Notorious is Veendam's away match against Derksen's former club Cambuur in 1973. The second half had only just started when Derksen received a yellow card from referee G. Jonker from Voorburg

Voorburg

Voorburg is a Dutch town and former municipality in the western part of the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. As also Leidschendam and Stompwijk, it is part of the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg. It has approximately 39,000 inhabitants....

. Derksen later made an extremely harsh foul by charging Cambuur's centre-back Sietse Visser in a scrimmage

Scrimmage

A scrimmage, or exhibition game, is an informal sports contest or practice match engaged in for practice purposes which does not go on the regular season record. Scrimmage may also refer to:* Line of scrimmage, in American football and related games...

, leaving the unfortunate Visser severely injured. Visser left the pitch on a stretcher

Stretcher

A stretcher is a medical device used to carry casualties or an incapacitated person from one place to another. It is a simple type of litter, and still called by that name in some cases....

. Despite this, referee Jonker did not ascertain the offense. The furious crowd chanted en masse insults at Derksen, which he returned with a well-known obscene hand gesture

Finger (gesture)

In Western culture, the finger , also known as the middle finger, is an obscene hand gesture, often meaning the phrases "fuck off" , "fuck you" or "up yours"...

 at the moment he was about to leave the playing field

Association football pitch

An association football pitch is the playing surface for the game of association football made of turf. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play".All line markings on the pitch form part of the area which they define...

. Out of fear for a lynching

Lynching

Lynching is an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. It is related to other means of social control that...

 (Note:Dysphemism

Dysphemism

In language, dysphemism, malphemism, and cacophemism refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh, rather than polite, word or expression; roughly the opposite of euphemism...

) the police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 closed the gates to ensure the visiting team would be granted a free passage home. Sulking, but without demur the fans watched from behind the gate how the Veendam players laughed, scornfully, from behind the safe windows of their coach.

According to some bystanders Derksen had threatened Cambuur players that they "would indeed get a good licking". The charge fueled the debate on the ever more violent behaviour shown on the pitch.

Cambuur won the rough game 3 to 1. Johan Derksen received a monetary fine (150 fl.) and was suspended for four games. His colleagues Dick Nanninga (3 matches, 100 fl. fine) and Jan Bont (1 match, 100 fl.) were also punished by the arbitration committee.

A week later Johan Derksen was put up for sale. In a statement Veendam said his bad behaviour in the match against Cambuur was the last straw.
Despite persistent rumours of a fl. 15.000 transfer agreement with FC VVV (now VVV Venlo) no deal was concluded and consequently Derksen stayed in Groningen

Groningen (province)

Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...

 for another season. A year later the 25-year-old journalist-footballer was laid off. In a statement in the press he said that only five players (including himself) were good enough to play in the Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

. He expressed himself unsympathetically in Voetbal International

Voetbal International

Voetbal International is a Dutch football magazine, which has been publishing since 1965. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running....

 on his fellow players and the club's management.

In the winter of 1975 a transfer

Transfer (football)

In professional association football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between professional clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one professional association football club to another. In general, the players can only be...

 took place. Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

club
Haarlem

HFC Haarlem

HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...

 agreed to take over the explosive defender for a fee of fl. 6.000 and signed him a half-year deal.

Haarlem (1975-1976)

In Haarlem's first match since they bought Derksen immediately impressed. He formed the link Haarlem's defense had missed. His contract was extended by a year in time. At the end of the season Haarlem had to play a last decisive game against Cambuur Leeuwarden

Cambuur Leeuwarden

SC Cambuur , formed on June 19, 1964, is a Dutch football club from Leeuwarden, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home ground is the 10,250 seater Cambuur Stadion and they play in yellow shirts and blue shorts. The club's emblem originates from the coat of arms of the House of...

. With a victory they'd have gathered enough points to celebrate the championship

Championship

Championship is a term used in sport to refer to various forms of competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.- Title match system :...

. They won, although nobody could deny they had been very lucky: many arbitral errors had helped them achieve their goal.

SV Meppen and Noord-Nederland-team (1976-1977)

For a year he tried his luck in West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 at SV Meppen

SV Meppen

SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as Amisia Meppen and joined Männer-Turnverein Meppen on 8 February 1920 to form TuS Meppen 1912...

, a club then active in the Regionalliga Nord

Regionalliga Nord

The Regionalliga Nord is currently the fourth tier of the German football league system. Until the introduction of the 3rd Liga in 2008 it was the third tier. It currently is the highest regional league for the northern and eastern part of Germany. It covers ten of the sixteen states of Germany...

. Derksen, living in Emmen, found it too hard to travel over 400 kilometers to Haarlem and back every day. Meppen is just across the Dutch-German border, so there he went. He didn't play many games though. What he did do was fight a lot with every one.

Together with former Cambuur manager Atte Bouma as head coach he acted in the mini football show (Dutch:minivoetbalshow), an initiative of VI

Voetbal International

Voetbal International is a Dutch football magazine, which has been publishing since 1965. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running....

 and NCRV

NCRV

NCRV is a public radio and television broadcaster in the Netherlands, mostly transmitting on Nederland 1 and Nederland 2....

, in the Northern Netherlands football team. In November that year they made their first appearance in Ahoy sports palace in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

 against last year's champion, Domstad Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

. It was broadcast a week later.

The team consisted of eight players: Jochem Lökken, Henk Zoetendal, Johan Derksen, Hennie Weering, Pierke Alma, Wim van der Heide, Hans Ooft

Hans Ooft

Marius Johan Ooft is a Dutch football manager who is the first foreigner to coach Japan national football team. Under Ooft, Japan won AFC Asian Cup for the first time in 1992.-Honors:*AFC Asian Cup Champions - 1992*J. League Cup Champions - 2003...

 and Henk Prinsen. Andries Roorda was reserve goalie.

He did not play professional football for eight months. In the spring of 1977 he signed a contract with MVV Maastricht

MVV Maastricht

MVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902...

. The 28-year-old defender signed a provisional contract valid until the end of the season. He was signed to replace John Webb

John Webb

John Webb was an English architect and scholar.-Life:He was born in Little Britain, Smithfield London and died in Butleigh in Somerset and became son-in-law and personal assistant to fellow architect and theatre designer Inigo Jones from 1628, having married Jones' niece Anne...

, who departed for the States in order to serve out his outstanding contract with Chicago Sting

Chicago Sting

The Chicago Sting was an American professional soccer team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Sting played in the North American Soccer League from 1975 to 1984 and in the Major Indoor Soccer League from in the 1982-83 season and again from 1984 to 1988...

.

MVV Maastricht (1977)

Derksen did not play football for a long time, yet he did very well in his first games. His manager Georg Knobel proved himself amiable man: "I am very happy with Johan Derksen. He has the experience to deal with kind of thing." Knobel did not respond to questions why he left his best players Willy Brokamp

Willy Brokamp

Willy Brokamp is a former footballplayer For MVV Maastricht in the 1960s and 1970s who recruited him from RKVV Chèvremont . His nickname was “The blond arrow”....

 en Jo Bonfrère

Jo Bonfrere

Johannes Bonfrere or Jo Bonfrere is a Dutch football coach, and a former striker, who played for MVV Maastricht and K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot. He is currently the manager of Henan Construction F.C...

 on the reserves' bench. Derksen shed some light on the case in the next volume of Voetbal International

Voetbal International

Voetbal International is a Dutch football magazine, which has been publishing since 1965. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running....

. Derksen said that MVV did not use them for they were afraid they would get hurt. From experience MVV had learned it's best to shield their precious boys in away games. Derksen asked himself what to become of the world when creative players in the First Division

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

 can't freely practice their job. He received a lot of criticism on his article. Derksen himself is noted as one of the most vile players in the division. In the match in question Derksen could clearly be seen in Monday's transmission of Studio Sport kicking Kuzamanovic between legs in absence of the ball.

Career statistics

Start	End	Club	Matches	Goals	Competition
1966	1968	Go Ahead Eagles Go Ahead Eagles The Go Ahead Eagles are a football club from Deventer, Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home stadium is De Adelaarshorst. To date, the club has won the national championship four times...	N/A	N/A	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1968	1972	Cambuur Leeuwarden Cambuur Leeuwarden SC Cambuur , formed on June 19, 1964, is a Dutch football club from Leeuwarden, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home ground is the 10,250 seater Cambuur Stadion and they play in yellow shirts and blue shorts. The club's emblem originates from the coat of arms of the House of...	N/A	N/A	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1972	1975	Veendam BV Veendam SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...	N/A	N/A	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1973	1974	Veendam BV Veendam SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...	30	1	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1975	1976	Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...	47	2	1 Eredivisie The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA.... +2 Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1975	1975	Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...	15	1	Eredivisie Eredivisie The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
1975	1976	Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...	32	1	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1977	1977	MVV Maastricht MVV Maastricht MVV Maastricht is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902...	N/A	N/A	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
Totals
1966	1977	All	62	2	Eerste Divisie Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
1975	1975	Haarlem HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889. The club won the Dutch national title in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912...	15	1	Eredivisie Eredivisie The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
1966	1977	All	77	3	1 Eredivisie The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA.... +2 Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

Source: Note: All available statistics are mentioned above.

Journalistic career

As a journalist he started at regional newspaper "Noord-Ooster". He later worked as an editor

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

 for "Winschoter Courant" and "Nieuwsblad van het Noorden". After he quit playing professional football he focussed mainly on his journalistic career. As of February 1, 1977 he is employed by weekly magazine "Voetbal International

Voetbal International

Voetbal International is a Dutch football magazine, which has been publishing since 1965. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running....

". He moved from Emmen to Gouda

Gouda

Gouda is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Gouda, which was granted city rights in 1272, is famous for its Gouda cheese, smoking pipes, and 15th-century city hall....

, where VI had and still has its seat. Since 2000 he is the magazine's editor-in-chief. He recently confessed to have written for VI before as a job on the side using pseudonym

Pseudonym

A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

s "Gerrit Westers" and "Freek Zoontjes" (his then employer had specifically told him not to take any job on the side).

Cambuur incident

Johan Derksen claimed in VI

Voetbal International

Voetbal International is a Dutch football magazine, which has been publishing since 1965. It is the oldest Dutch football magazine that is still running....

 that Cambuur

Cambuur Leeuwarden

SC Cambuur , formed on June 19, 1964, is a Dutch football club from Leeuwarden, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home ground is the 10,250 seater Cambuur Stadion and they play in yellow shirts and blue shorts. The club's emblem originates from the coat of arms of the House of...

 had paid a large sum of money to keep Oekie Hoekema from being suspended. According to Derksen Vlaardingen player and chief witness of the case Herman den Haag had received a few banknote

Banknote

A banknote is a kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender. In addition to coins, banknotes make up the cash or bearer forms of all modern fiat money...

s for the trouble out of the hands of a Cambuur official whilst on the toilet

Toilet

A toilet is a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement, often found in a small room referred to as a toilet/bathroom/lavatory...

. De Volkskrant

De Volkskrant

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

 wanted to get to the bottom of it and called KNVB

Royal Dutch Football Association

The Royal Dutch Football Association is the governing body of football in the Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues , the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch national football team. It is based in the municipality of Zeist.The KNVB came into being on 8 December 1889...

 official Van Zon, who stated he had laughed very hard when he heard the claims. "Money handed out at the toilet? How did he come up with that? I have seen it with my own eyes: the Cambuur representative gave the cash to the witnesses. No, not on the toilet but in public in the bar

Bar (establishment)

A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...

 of our restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

. It wasn't much money either, If I recall correctly it was fl. 50. Those few ten-guilder notes aren't even enough to cover the witnesses expenses, since all the witnesses had to travel from Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

 to here. The KNVB handles a fl. 0.35 per kilometre compensation." "Quite a crappy story indeed Derksen wrote, but then again, that's what we're accustomed to. You wanna know who were present in court at the time? Me, another journalist and a man with a tape recorder

Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...

. Derksen wasn't there. Probably at the toilet."

Becoming CEO of BV Veendam

In the spring of 2002 Johan Derksen agreed to become the new CEO of BV Veendam

BV Veendam

SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...

. He would lead the club together with manager

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

/head coach

Head coach

A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...

 Jan Korte

Jan Korte

Jan Korte is a former football player from the Netherlands, who played for BV Veendam, and later on became a football manager. He coached BV Veendam for three years .-References:...

 and quit his job as editor-in-chief of Voetbal International immediately, where he had worked for almost 25 years. Two days after he was presented as successor of Henk Nienhuis he withdrew his decision. He did not agree with the contract presented to him because of the retirement arrangements. Derksen called the contract "outrageous and without shame". He placed these comments during RTL 5

RTL 5

RTL 5 is the 2nd channel of the RTL Group in the Netherlands. The channel mainly broadcasts American films and hit series but also local productions including Jensen! and Holland's Next Top Model, a Dutch version of America's Next Top Model. RTL 5 recently started airing the Dutch version of...

's Sunday United.

Writing

Derksen has written several books on football. What follows is a complete list of works using APA style

APA style

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 citation

Citation

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s.

• Derksen, J., & Collette, R. (1983) Wiel Coerver: Leerplan voor de ideale voetballer, Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 9789010047960

• Derksen, J., Coerver, W., Lehmann, M. (1984). Fußballtechnik : Dribbeln und Tricksen, Passen und Schießen. München ; Wien ; Zürich : BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-405-12952-4

• Derksen, J., Coerver, W., Nieuwenkamp, H J. (1986). Scoren : opleiding voor attractief en productief voetbal. Amsterdam : Elsevier. ISBN 90-10-06076-4

• Derksen, J., Hughes, B., Raucamp, W. (1987). Barry Hughest : de entertainer. Amsterdam : Weekbladpers. ISBN 90-9400927-7

• Derksen, J., & Verkamman, M. (1989). Het Nederlands Elftal : 1905-1989 : de historie van Oranje. Amsterdam: Weekbladpers. ISBN 90-236-7211-9

• Derksen, J., Coerver, W., Arcidiacono, A., (1990). A scuola di goal : per apprendere e migliorare le tecniche del calcio. Roma: Gremese. ISBN 88-7605-487-1

• Derksen, J., & Verkamman, M. (1996). Het Nederlands elftal : de historie van Oranje 1905-1989. Amsterdam: Luitingh-Sijthoff. ISBN 90-245-2605-1

• Derksen, J. (1998). Linkspoot. Amsterdam: Anthos. Antwerpen: Icarus. ISBN 90-76341-91-5

• Derksen, J., Nederhof, B., Van Cuilenborg, C., Bakker, J. (2000). De beste interviews van 2000. Naarden: Strengholt. ISBN 90-5860-064-5

• Derksen, J. & Jansma, K. (2002). De columnisten. Naarden: Strengholt. ISBN 90-5860-197-8

• Derksen, J., Verkamman, M., Van den Nieuwenhof, F., Van der Meer, E. (2004). 50 jaar betaald voetbal : de complete geschiedenis. Eindhoven: De Boekenmakers. ISBN 90-77740-03-1

• Derksen, J., Borst, H., Spaan, H. (2007) Feyenoord. De top & flop 100, sterren & miskopen volgens Johan Derksen, Henk Spaan & Hugo Borst. Allround Media Producties. ISBN 978-90-79254-01-9.

• Derksen, J., Barend, F., Borst, H., Van Cuilenborg, C., Groot de, J., Nederhof, B., Verkamman, M. (2007) Johan Cruijff. Gouda: Nummer 14. ISBN 978-90-811654-1-9

• Derksen, J., Borst, H., Driessen, L., Echtelt van, H., Jong de, W., Nederhof, B., Nijnatten van, C., Verkamman, M., Visser, J. (2008) Willem van Hanegem. Uitgeverij de Buitenspelers. ISBN 9071359034

Coach Noord-Nederland-team

In the autumn of 1977 Derksen was back in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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 with his former Northern Netherlands selection. Only now he was the acting coach instead of a player. Joop Niezen, former footballer and sports journalist and at the time editor-in-chief of VI gave commentry

Commentry

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 during the match between "Rotterdam Ahoy" and "Noord-Nederland" (6-2).

Music

His greatest passion is music. He has always been a great fan of blues

Blues

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 and soul music

Soul music

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. As an adolescent he met singer Harry Muskee of the Dutch blues band

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 Cuby & the Blizzards

Cuby & the Blizzards

Cuby + Blizzards – also known as Cuby & the Blizzards – are a Dutch blues group that formed in 1964 around Harry Muskee and Eelco Gelling...

, who became his idol.
Cuby + Blizzards were very popular throughout the sixties and early seventies. In 1972 the band dissolved. Derksen founded "Cuby is back", a foundation committed to bring the band back, together with business people and Cuby fans Henk Aa and Jan Lagendrijk in 1996. The band members reunited and made a complete new album. Their tour was considered a great success and in 2007, more than ten years later, they are still together and playing.
For some years he worked for the American

United States

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 record label

Record label

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 Stax

Stax Records

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 in the late seventies. As a press officer in Haarlem

Haarlem

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 it was part of his job to make sure the visiting American musicians got everything they needed. He jokingly referred to himself as a "notorious whore-hopper", since he accompanied American soul artists to De Wallen

De Wallen

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 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 almost weekly.

Derksen hates "happy music", for him music can't be melancholic enough. He believes the greatest artist of all time is the American

United States

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Mickey Newbury

Mickey Newbury

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. After his retirement he plans to move to the United States

United States

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, a country he refers to as a "heaven of music".

Personal life

Derksen has been married three times. At age 41 he lost his wife in an accident, leaving him and a twelve-year-old daughter behind. He remarried a younger wife with whom he has two children.

External links

/ Johan Derksen Jensen interview (part 1) at Youtube

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/ Johan Derksen Jensen interview (part 2) at Youtube

YouTube

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Voetbal International website Johan Derksen at VI.nl Johan Derksen's fansite Johan Derksen quotations Johan Derksen interview on SP.NL - Tribune September 20, 2002