van de DONK Danielle

Date of Birth: 5 Aug 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.60/5'2''

Place of birth: VALKENSWAARD

Birth Country:

Netherlands

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Football	Women NED Netherlands	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Miyagi Stadium	Women's Group F #04 ZAM Zambia 3 NED Netherlands 10	Finished
	Miyagi Stadium	Women's Group F #10 NED Netherlands 3 BRA Brazil 3	Finished
	International Stadium Yokohama	Women's Group F #15 NED Netherlands 8 CHN China 2	Finished
	International Stadium Yokohama	Women's Quarter-final #20 NED Netherlands 2 (2) USA United States 2 (4) PSO	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Senior	2019	France
13	Senior	2015	Canada

UEFA Women's Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2017	Netherlands

DvD (vavel.com, 08 Oct 2019)

Occupation:

Sport Management, Sports Marketing - Johan Cruyff Institute, Netherlands

Languages spoken:

Olympique Lyonnais [France] since 2021

Sonia Bompastor [club], FRA; Sarina Wiegman [national], NED

Position style:

Forward, Midfielder (arseblog.news, 10 Mar 2020; metro.news, 30 Oct 2019)

2010 for Netherlands Against Mexico, in Sao Paulo, Brazil (vavel.com, 08 Oct 2019)

National league:

Division 1 Feminine [FRA] (goal.com, 21 Jun 2021)

She began playing football at age four at the SV Valkenswaard club in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (thesun.co.uk, 14 Nov 2019)

"I used to cycle past people playing football in the park on my way to swimming and I would always ask if I could join in. But my mum told me to get my swimming badge first and then I could try football, and since then I never stopped playing." (thesun.co.uk, 14 Nov 2019)

In 2017 she was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands. The entire Dutch national team received the honour in recognition of their victory at the 2017 European Championships on home soil. (vavel.com, 08 Oct 2019; nos.nl, 25 Oct 2017; womenssoccerunited.com, 14 Jun 2017)

General Interest

General
INSPIRING OTHERS
She hopes that the success of the women's national team at the 2017 European Championships in the Netherlands and the 2019 World Cup in France will inspire a new generation of players in the Netherlands. The team won the tournament on home soil in 2017 and went on to reach the final of the World Cup two years later. "Now we've shown that wasn't a one-time thing and ultimately it is a small step for the future. I hope we inspire a lot of young kids in the Netherlands to play football and to be even better than we are now so that it keeps us on this high level. It is now the biggest-growing sport in the Netherlands and I'm proud of that but at the same time I hope the league is going to get a boost from it, because it is not strong enough, at the moment, to keep us at the top." (theguardian.com, 07 Sep 2019)

Milestones

In October 2019 she received her 100th international cap in a game against the Russian Federation in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (vavel.com, 08 Oct 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
PSO:: Penalty Shoot-out

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