Playing
van Marwijk was born in Deventer, Overijssel. As a forward and a midfielder he played 393 matches in the Dutch highest division (Eredivisie). In 1975, he was called up by Rinus Michels to play for the Netherlands national football team in a friendly match against Yugoslavia, which was his only cap. He played for Go Ahead Eagles, AZ'67, MVV Maastricht and Fortuna Sittard.
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Famous quotes containing the word playing:
“You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.”
—James Baker (b. 1930)
“We are playing with fire when we skip the years of three, four, and five to hurry children into being age six.... Every child has a right to his fifth year of life, his fourth year, his third year. He has a right to live each year with joy and self-fulfillment. No one should ever claim the power to make a child mortgage his today for the sake of tomorrow.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
—Duke Ellington (1899–1974)