Vincent Janssen

What draws me to Vincent Janssen is the climb, not the spotlight. Born in 1994 in the small town of Heesch, he worked his way up from the Eerste Divisie with Almere City before exploding into the Eredivisie's top scorer at AZ Alkmaar. That arc, from modest beginnings to league-leading striker, is the kind of story I find far more compelling than precocious teenage hype. A 180 cm forward grinding out goals across the Netherlands and now Belgium, he strikes me as a player defined by persistence rather than flash, and that is exactly the sort of footballer I quietly root for.

Name (English)

Vincent Janssen

Name (Japanese)

フィンチェント・ヤンセン

Reading

ふぃんちぇんと・やんせん

Born

June 15, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Heesch, North Brabant, Netherlands

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

University

Canisius College

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Janssen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3
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Tags

• North Brabant
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

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