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| Veldwijk at Forest |
Lars Veldwijk arrived at Forest to a few raised eye brows.A
name no one had even remotely heard of from the Dutch second tier after a
prolific season with Excelsior.
At 6’5, the Dutchman was a physical presence that we lacked.
He was 23 at the time and was a little bit rough around the edges. But the
signing was elcomed by fans as being a sign we were thinking differently and
trying to snap up players from hither to unsearched markets.
The price tag was around £500,000, but it was regarded that
he would take quite a while to settle in and get upto speed for the
Championship.
I believe at the time I mentioned we should look to loan him to League One or League Two to bring him upto speed with English football a bit. Keep his eye in for goals.
That wasn’t something we did. Veldwijk was slowly fed into
the team with substitute appearences. And he did look way off the pace when he
did come on.
Anyway, a I’m sure eall know Veldwijks time with the club didn’t work out. He just wasn’t good enough, and the move was not a success.
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| South African International |
But after Forest, Veldwijk has played around the world in a variety of places. His career took him back to the Netherlands, to Belgium, to Norway, and most recently toSouth Korea. In that time he also become a South Africa international.
After Forest, Veldwijk moved to Belgium to play for Kortrijk. He didnt stay there for long, being loaned out to Aalesund in Norway. After scoring 5 in 16 games for them, he went back to his native Netherlands, firstly with Groningen, and latterly with Sparta Rotterdam.
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| Sparta Rotterdam |
With Rotterdam Veldwijk hit some form, scoring 27 goals in 42 matches,but the majority of them back in the Dutch second division as Sparta got promoted, before a more modest return in the EreDivisie in the past two years.
At the start of 2020 he moved to South Korea to Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. playing 10 games and scoring 1 goal. He then moved to the Second Division to Suwon just before Lockddown began, and is still presently with the Dashers.
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| Veldwijk with Jeonbuk |
He is still only 28 years old. His career has become that of journeyman. Where ghe goes after this
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