Jan Heintze was born on 17 August 1963 and is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a left-sided defensive midfielder and defender.
10 Facts About Jan Heintze
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Jan Heintze ended his career in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a part of the PSV team which won the 1988 European Cup.
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Jan Heintze played 86 matches for the Denmark national team in the course of 15 years, playing four international tournaments with the team, which he captained in his last two years before he retired in 2003.
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However, the team was relegated, and though he had offers from foreign clubs, the 17-year-old Heintze stayed at Kastrup, on orders of his mother.
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Jan Heintze was bought by PSV in 1982 as a left winger, in which position he had been most successful in his first years at Kastrup Boldklub.
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Jan Heintze went to Germany to play for Bundesliga relegation battlers Bayer Uerdingen in 1994, and when the team was relegated in 1996, he went on to Bayer Leverkusen under coach Christoph Daum, with whom he finished in the Bundesliga top-three for three years in a row.
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Jan Heintze returned to finish his career at PSV in 1999, with his old team mate Eric Gerets the head coach.
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Jan Heintze won another three Dutch championship titles before retiring in 2003.
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When Denmark hired new coach Bo Johansson in 1996, Jan Heintze was once more called up for Denmark, and he played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 tournaments.
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At the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Jan Heintze was suffering in the heat, and after being substituted after the second match of the tournament, Jan Heintze watched the last two games from the bench, before Denmark was eliminated.