Mark Otten
Personal information
Date of birth (1985-09-02) 2 September 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Nijmegen, Netherlands
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
RKSV Brakkenstein
1998–2003 NEC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 NEC 3 (0)
2004–2007 Feyenoord 0 (0)
2004–2006 → Excelsior (loan) 66 (1)
2006–2007 → NEC (loan) 27 (0)
2007–2011 NEC 28 (1)
2011–2014 Ferencváros 35 (1)
Total 159 (3)
International career
2001 Netherlands U16 7 (0)
2001–2002 Netherlands U17 11 (1)
2003–2004 Netherlands U19 11 (0)
2006–2007 Netherlands U20 2 (0)
Managerial career
2019–2020 RKHVV
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mark Otten (born 2 September 1985) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender. He currently manages the NEC U21 team.

Club career

NEC

Born in Nijmegen, Otten developed into a professional football player within the NEC youth academy. He joined the team at age 12, after having been discovered for the local youth team RKSV Brakkenstein where his father, Roger Otten, was a coach.[2] In January 2003, he was included in the first-team squad by head coach Johan Neeskens for their training camp in Alanya, Turkey.[3]

On 27 March 2004, Otten made his professional debut in the Eredivisie in a 5–2 away loss to NAC Breda, coming on as an 87th-minute substitute.[4] He would go on to make two more appearances during the season, as NEC finished the 2003–04 season in 14th place, six points clear of relegation play-offs.[1][5]

Feyenoord

In April 2004, it was announced that Otten would move to Feyenoord in the following season, after having signed a three-year contract with the club.[4] He would, however, struggle to break into the first team, and spent time on loan with Excelsior for two seasons. In the 2005–06 season, Otten won the second-tier Eerste Divisie with the club.[6] The following season, 2006–07, he was loaned out to his childhood club, NEC. He suffered an injury in his upper leg in a pre-season tournament in Den Helder in July 2006, keeping him out for the start of the season.[7] In April 2007, he suffered a knee injury, which meant that he was sidelined for six months.[8]

Return to NEC

Despite suffering a knee injury, Otten signed permanently for his first club NEC in June 2007, penning a four-year deal.[9]

In the 2007–08 season Otten regained his place in the starting lineup of NEC and in the opening game of the 2008–09 he made his official return to Eredivisie action. He crowned this achievement by scoring the 2–0 goal against De Graafschap. On 4 Match 2009, Otten suffered another knee injury in the KNVB Cup match against SC Heerenveen. After a new cruciate ligament operation, he was set to miss six to nine months.[10]

Ferencváros

In 2011, Otten's contract with NEC was not extended and on 14 June 2011 he signed a two-year contract with a third year option with Hungarian club Ferencváros. In his first season, he played regularly but afterwards suffered injuries. He was part of the team winning the 2012–13 Ligakupa.[11] In February 2014, he was demoted to the reserve team of the club, alongside fellow countrymen Jack Tuijp and Arsenio Valpoort after the firing of Dutch manager Ricardo Moniz.[12][13][14] In the summer of 2014, his contract expired and he decided to retire due to persistent injuries.[15]

International career

Otten represented the Netherlands at youth international level.[16] He was a member of the Dutch squad at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. The team was eliminated in the quarter-final against Nigeria.[17]

Coaching career

While playing for NEC, Otten worked as a youth coach at RKSV Brakkenstein, and was appointed assistant manager of the first team after his retirement as a player in 2014.[18] In his first season, the team won the Vijfde Klasse.[15] In 2015, he joined the staff of his former club NEC where he coached in the youth department.[19] In April 2016, he moved to Feyenoord where he was appointed the coach of the U15 team.[19]

On 22 March 2019, it was announced that Otten would become the new head coach of RKHVV in the Eerste Klasse on a one-year contract while continuing in his role as a youth coach at NEC.[18] In December, he stated that he would not extend his contract with RKHVV in order to focus on his obligations at NEC.[20]

He currently manages the NEC U21 team.[21]

Honours

Excelsior

Ferencváros

References

  1. ^ a b "M. Otten - Soccerway". nl.soccerway.com. Perform Group. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Plezier voorop bij familie Otten". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). 25 September 2006. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Mark Otten: "De kop is eraf!"". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). 21 January 2003. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Feyenoord haalt jeugdinternational NEC". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 14 April 2004. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Historische statistieken Eredivisie". Eredivisie. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Eerste divisie: Excelsior kampioen". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 31 March 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Mark Otten mist deel voorbereiding bij NEC". Rijnmond (in Dutch). 29 July 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Otten minstens zes maanden aan de kant". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 24 April 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Otten van Feyenoord naar NEC". Trouw (in Dutch). 7 June 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Otten scheurt opnieuw kruisband". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). 5 March 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Ligakupa 2012–2013 - NSO" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Moniz haalt met Tuyp vierde Nederlander naar Hongarije". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 8 July 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  13. ^ "Ferencvaros wordt Nederlandse enclave". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Moniz: 'Ontslag Ferencváros klap en trieste gebeurtenis'". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 1 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Ex-NEC'er Otten aan het roer bij Brakkenstein". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). 20 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Otten stopte het jaar daarvoor als profvoetballer, noodgedwongen door blessures. De carrière van de oud-speler van NEC, Feyenoord, Excelsior en Ferencvaros (Hongarije) was getekend door knieblessures.
  16. ^ Holland stats at OnsOranje
  17. ^ Nigeria - Netherlands 1:1 a.e.t. 10:9 PSO, FIFA U-20 World Championship 2005 (Netherlands), FIFA.com
  18. ^ a b "Mark Otten nieuwe hoofdtrainer van R.K.H.V.V." Omroep Lingewaard (in Dutch). 22 March 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Mark Otten nieuwe trainer Feyenoord Onder 15". Feyenoord (in Dutch). 16 June 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  20. ^ "Persbericht: Mark Otten geeft aan zijn contract niet te verlengen". rkhvv.nl (in Dutch). RKHVV. 4 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021.
  21. ^ "N.E.C. maakt trainersposities jeugdelftallen bekend; Mark Otten trainer N.E.C. O21". nec-nijmegen.nl (in Dutch). NEC Nijmegen. 25 May 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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