Erwin Mulder

Erwin Mulder (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛrʋɪn ˈmɵldər]; born 3 March 1989) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen. He is a former Netherlands U20's international and also received a call up to the senior Netherlands side in 2012.

Club Career

Youth career

Mulder started playing football at local Pannerden club R.K.P.S.C. At the age of ten, he made the switch from field player to goalkeeper. After being a goalkeeper for one year, Mulder received his first invitation for the KNVB district team: "From that moment on I realized I had talent. I really enjoyed it as well, diving in the mud, loved it."

When Mulder went to secondary school around the age of 12, the goalkeeper joined the Vitesse Arnhem youth academy, a professional Eredivisie club from Arnhem. After playing for Vitesse for three seasons, he was asked to join the Feyenoord youth academy. At Feyenoord, Mulder was seen as one of the biggest goalkeeping talents. Feyenoord's former goalkeeping coach Pim Doesburg predicted him to be the first goalkeeper to reach Feyenoord's first team coming directly from the Feyenoord youth academy since Joop Hiele in the late seventies.

Feyenoord (2006–2015)

Small steps (2006–2008)

In November 2006, at the age of 17, Mulder was invited to Feyenoord's first team squad by Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman. As the reserve goalkeepers Patrick Lodewijks and Sherif Ekramy were both facing injuries, the teenager was Henk Timmer's first stand-in. He was on the bench for over ten matches during the season 2006–07, but did not make his official first team debut. In January 2007, Mulder was one of the few talents to join the first team on training camp in Belek, Turkey, but returned to the Feyenoord U19 squad afterwards.

On 5 May 2007, Feyenoord said he was expected to be among six players to be included in the first team the following month on 3 June 20

This page also has a version in other languages :  Эрвин Мюлдер (russian)