Jack Tuijp
Jacobus Johannes "Jack" Tuijp is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career with FC Volendam. The media often misconstrued his surname as Tuyp.
Tuijp, born in Volendam, started his football career at RKAV Volendam like many other footballers from the fishing village. In the 2002–03 season, he made his debut in professional football for FC Volendam. After two seasons he left for Groningen. There he made eleven league appearances in his first season, after which the club sent him on loan to his old club for the next two seasons. After this, FC Volendam signed the striker on a permanent basis. He became a key player in the team and became the top goalscorer of the second-tier Eerste Divisie three times.
In the summer of 2013, Tuijp left for Hungary to play for top-tier club Ferencváros. After Dutch manager Ricardo Moniz was fired by the club in December, Tuijp did not make any more appearances. During the 2014–15 season, the club sent him on a one-season loan to Helmond Sport. In the summer of 2015, Tuijp returned to FC Volendam together with Kees Kwakman. After two seasons, his contract was not extended by the club, after which he signed with amateur club ASV De Dijk at the end of May 2017, which had been promoted to the third-tier Tweede Divisie the previous season. In January 2018, he announced his retirement from football due to unrest in the club. With 176 goals in 400 games, Tuijp number is two on the all-time topscorer list of Volendam, behind his great-uncle, Dick Tol.
Club career
Volendam
Tuijp started playing football at RKAV Volendam and made the switch to the youth academy of FC Volendam as a teenager. In the 2002–03 season of the second-tier Eerste Divisie he was promoted to the first-team squad. On 8 November 2002, Tuijp made his debut in a 1–2 loss to Fortuna Sittard. He came on as a substitute after 72 minutes to replace Houssain Ouhsaine Ouichou. On 14 February 2003, Tuijp was in the starting line-up for the first time in an away match against HFC Haarlem and scored the only goal of the match, securing three points for Volendam. A week later, he scored again in a 6–1 victory over Go Ahead Eagles. On 19 June 2003, Tuijp scored the opening goal in the last group match of the promotion play-offs against Heracles. Volendam eventually won the game 3–1 and thus secured promotion to the Eredivisie as group winners. Tuijp scored ten goals in 24 appearances in his first season.Tuijp made his debut at the highest level in the Eredivisie season opener against SC Heerenveen on 17 August 2003. Tuijp became the starting striker of the Volendam team under head coach Henk Wisman and later under his successor Johan Steur and scored his first Eredivisie goal one month after his debut in the league, in a match against ADO Den Haag. However, he was unable to surpass his number of goals from the previous season, as Volendam finished seventeenth and relegated to the Eerste Divisie.
In the Eredivisie, Volendam was the only club with semi-professional contracts in the team at the time. Tuijp was one of those players. He played under a youth contract and was simultaneously a student of business economics at the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies.
Groningen
Tuijp left Volendam before their return to the Eerste Divisie, and signed a five-year contract with Eredivisie club Groningen in the summer of 2004, who paid approximately €800,000 for him. In his first season, however, he mainly had to make do with appearances as a substitute and out of the eleven games he played, he only started once. He returned to Volendam on a loan the following season. There, Tuijp came to play more and with the club he finished in third place behind title winners Excelsior and vice-champion VVV-Venlo that season. Tuijp and Volendam were unable to promote through the play-offs. In March 2006, towards the end of the season, Groningen released the news that Tuijp and teammate Kiran Bechan were allowed to look for a new club because there was no prospect of playing time in Groningen.Groningen then decided to send Tuijp on loan again. Despite interest from Veendam and Dordrecht, he decided to stay in Volendam. He made 30 appearances that season, scoring ten goals.
Return to Volendam
In June 2007, Tuijp returned to Volendam, signing a three-year contract. Tuijp's first season back on a permanent contract was highly successful. In the last matchday, Volendam only needed to defeat ADO Den Haag to win the Eerste Divisie title. ADO played for a better position for the play-offs. After 26 minutes of play, Tuijp scored the only goal of the game and thus secured the title for Volendam and a return to the Eredivisie after an absence of four seasons. Tuijp scored eight goals in the last six league games and became the top goalscorer of the Eerste Divisie with 26 goals. Tuijp had made a bet with Volendam-based singer Jan Smit prior to the season, that if he scored 25 or more goals, Smit had to compose a new club song. Tuijp achieved this number on 4 April in a match against AGOVV.2008–09: Eredivisie
Prior to the 2008–09 season, Tuijp extended his expiring contract with Volendam until mid-2011. Again, the return to the highest level was short lived. Tuijp started the season well and scored twice in the first game against Heerenveen, but could not prevent Heerenveen winning 2–3. After this, there was no winning for seven weeks. On 2 November 2008, Volendam only booked its second victory, against De Graafschap. Tuijp scored once in the match. Still, the team from Volendam continued to struggle and occupied the lowest positions in the league table throughout the season. Tuijp was, however, successful with Volendam in the KNVB Cup. In the second round, in which Volendam won over VVV-Venlo after a penalty shootout, Tuijp scored once. In the next round, Eredivisie club Ajax was the opponent. Against all odds, Volendam managed to drag the game into extra time. Tuijp scored the 1–0 in the second half of extra time and with that, Ajax were eliminated. Tuijp later indicated that this was one of the best moments of his career.In December 2008, sports journalist Johan Derksen brought out a rumor in the talk show Voetbal International that Ajax would be interested in Tuijp. Tuijp later announced that Ajax had never contacted him nor Volendam. January 2009 saw the round of 16 of the KNVB Cup against Excelsior. In this matchup, Tuijp scored in cup for the third game in a row. After beating Roda JC in the quarter-finals, Volendam was eliminated in the semi-finals after a 2–0 defeat by Heerenveen. Tuijp was in the startling lineup and was replaced in the 65th minute by Melvin Platje. On the last day of the Eredivisie, Volendam played against direct relegation competitor De Graafschap. A victory had to be achieved to avoid direct relegation. Tuijp scored the 1–2 goal after 68 minutes on a pass from Platje, but ten minutes later the game reached its final result of 2–2 due to an own goal by Gerry Koning. Tuijp thereby suffered relegation with Volendam after one season at the highest level.
In the 2009–10 season, Tuijp achieved one of the worst results with Volendam. The club finished in 16th place of the second tier, the second lowest ranking ever. Tuijp did become club top scorer with 17 goals. The following season, Volendam finished in sixth place and thus qualified for the promotion play-offs. Volendam defeated MVV in the first round. In the second round, VVV-Venlo knocked Volendam out of contention. Tuijp appeared in all play-off matches. At the end of the season, he extended his contract by another two years.
2011–13: Two-time top scorer
In the 2011–12 season, Tuijp managed to score eight goals in the "first period" and scored seven league matches in a row. This earned him his first "Bronze Bull" as the top scorer of the first period. In the last game of this series, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 win over AGOVV, who were declared bankrupt in 2013. With this, Tuijp brought his total number of league goals for Volendam to 109 and rose to second place on the all-time top scorers list based on league matches. Tuijp then scored twice against Telstar and Helmond Sport respectively. Tuijp also became top scorer in the "second period" and received his second Bronze Bull from singer Jan Smit. He finished the season with 20 goals and became the top scorer of the Eerste Divisie for the second time. Volendam ended the season in a disappointing twelfth place. Despite this, Tuijp was voted Volendam Player of the Season by the supporters at the end of the season.Manager Hans de Koning appointed Tuijp team captain of Volendam ahead of the 2012–13 season. Tuijp again scored continuously for his club. He scored in 17 of the 28 games he played that season. He scored twice against FC Eindhoven, Excelsior and FC Oss. On 10 February 2013, he scored three goals and assisted in a match against Telstar. Tuijp became the top scorer of the Eerste Divisie for the second time in a row and for the third time in his career. He finished the season with 27 league goals, breaking his personal record from the 2007–08 season. At the end of the season, Tuijp was voted Eerste Divisie Player of the Season and he received the "Gouden Stier" from Netherlands national team coach Louis van Gaal. Despite all these personal successes, Volendam missed out on promotion. On the last round of play, a draw was enough for the championship, but they lost to Go Ahead Eagles who would later achieve promotion to the Eredivisie via the play-offs at the expense of Volendam.
In March 2013, Volendam made an offer to extend Tuijp's expiring contract, but he did not accept. He indicated that he wanted to try his luck abroad and wanted to take advantage of his transfer-free status next summer. Tuijp had also wanted to leave the Palingboeren the previous season, after Azerbaijani club Khazar Lankaran had shown their interest. Volendam's asking price had been too high for the club, however, which resulted in the transfer failing to go through. The free agent Tuijp enjoyed the interest of Greek club AEK Athens in the summer of 2013, but again a move failed to go through.