Jurriën Timber

Timber fascinates me precisely because he wins through intelligence rather than spectacle. A homegrown Ajax product who arrived alongside his twin, he has built a career on positional versatility, composure, and reading the game a beat ahead of everyone else. He is not the tallest defender, yet he neutralizes elite attackers through anticipation and clean ball control. I have a soft spot for players who make the difficult look quiet, and Timber embodies that. At Arsenal and with the Netherlands, he is the kind of dependable, adaptable defender every great team secretly relies on more than the headlines admit.

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Name (English)

Jurriën Timber

Name (Japanese)

ユリエン・ティンバー

Reading

ゆりえん・てぃんばー

Born

June 17, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Utrecht, Netherlands

Height

179 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurri%C3%ABn%20Timber
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53952196

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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