Bram van Vlerken

Bram van Vlerken intrigues me as the unsung type I always root for. A Dutch right-back from Helmond in North Brabant, born in 1995, he played one of football's most thankless positions, expected to defend and overlap in equal measure while the glory flows to those ahead of him. The Netherlands is famous for attacking flair, but teams collapse without the steady full-back grinding up and down the flank. I'm drawn to that kind of dependable, behind-the-scenes labor. From Helmond Sport's youth ranks through PSV's academy to the professional game, there's a quiet artisan's professionalism here that I find genuinely likeable.

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Name (English)

Bram van Vlerken

Name (Japanese)

ブラム・ファン・フレルケン

Reading

ぶらむ・ふぁん・ふれるけん

Born

October 7, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Helmond, North Brabant, Netherlands

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram%20van%20Vlerken
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2923628

Tags

• North Brabant
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.