Rinus Bennaars is a retired Dutch

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...

 footballer who was active as a right midfielder.

Bennaars started his career at the time that professional football in the Netherlands did not yet exist. On 25 November 1951, when playing for SV Dosko Bennaars played his first match for the Dutch national football team 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...

 versus Belgium. The Netherlands lost the match 7-6, but Bennaars managed to score one of the Dutch goals. Until 19 May 1954 he would play 10 times for the national team. At the time of the first professional football in the country Bennaars and SV Dosko started in the Dutch Second Division. After three years of professional football at Dosko Bennaars switched to NOAD

NAC Breda

NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...

 where he stayed one season before making another switch, towards Feijenoord

Feyenoord Rotterdam

Feyenoord is a Dutch professional football club located in Rotterdam. Along with Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord is one of the "big three" clubs in the Netherlands. These three clubs and Utrecht and Roda JC are the only clubs never to have been relegated from the Dutch first division...

. At his second season at Feijenoord Bennaars won his first trophy when the club won the 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....

. They remained their title in the following season and Bennaars was invited to join the Dutch national team again, nine years after his last call-up. In that year (1963), he played in another five matches, bringing his total caps to 15. He left Feijenoord after five seasons and went to play another two years in the Second Division at DFC

FC Dordrecht

FC Dordrecht is a football club from the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie.- History :Founded on 16 August 1883 as Dordrechtsche Football Club , it became a professional club in 1954 upon the introduction of professional football to the Netherlands...

where he won the championship of that division in his first season. After his second season at the club Bennaars retired from professional football.