Nick Olij

What draws me to Nick Olij is the quiet weight of his position. A goalkeeper at a club the size of PSV carries a different kind of pressure than the strikers who hog the headlines: one mistake and the whole stadium remembers, while a great save fades by Monday. Born in Haarlem in 1995, he has reached the age where a top Eredivisie side trusts him with its net, and that trust says more about him than any highlight reel. I admire keepers precisely because their work is thankless craftsmanship. Olij strikes me as the dependable kind, and I find myself rooting for him.

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Name (English)

Nick Olij

Name (Japanese)

ニック・オライ

Reading

にっく・おらい

Born

August 1, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Haarlem, Netherlands

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nickolij/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Olij
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3339778

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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