Joop Bockling

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Joop Bockling
Personal information
Date of birth ( 1955-11-03 ) 3 November 1955 (age 68)
Place of birth Amsterdam , Netherlands
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
De Eland/SDC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps ( Gls )
1977?1985 Haarlem 182 (74)
1985?1986 Volendam 33 (21)
1986?1987 Sparta 43 (14)
1987?1988 Volendam 17 (8)
1988?1991 Eindhoven 45 (7)
Total 320 (124)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joop Bockling (born 3 November 1955, in Amsterdam ) is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a forward .

Club career [ edit ]

He played the large part of his career for Haarlem for whom he scored a then record-equaling fastest goal of the Eredivisie after only 10 seconds in October 1981 against MVV . [1] He also played in the 1982?83 UEFA Cup match away at Moscow Spartak which became known as the Luzhniki disaster .( Report ) In 2007, he played in a remembrance game with former Haarlem players against former Spartak players. [2]

He later played for Volendam , Sparta and Eindhoven .

Managerial career [ edit ]

Bockling coached several amateur sides such as Hellas Sport, HFC Haarlem, Velsen, De Germaan, Ripperda, SIZO Hillegom, ROHDA'76 Bodegraven [3] and SV Vogelenzang [4]

Personal life [ edit ]

After retiring as a player, Bockling worked as a sales representative for sports brands Umbro and Diadora and later started his own marketing bureau. He has two children from his first marriage. [4]

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