Jan Mulder

Johan "Jan" Mulder (; born 4 May 1945) is a Dutch former footballer, writer, columnist, and TV personality.

Early life Johan Mulder was born on 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands.

Football career

Mulder was a football striker and played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and AFC Ajax. Mulder was topscorer of the 1966–67 season in the Belgian Eerste Klasse. His son Youri also grew up to become a football player, spending most of his career in the German Bundesliga at FC Schalke 04 until he retired in 2002.

Honours Anderlecht

Belgian First Division: 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1971–72 Belgian Cup: 1971–72 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup runner-up: 1969–70

Ajax

Eredivisie: 1972–73 European Cup: 1972–73 Intercontinental Cup: 1972 European Super Cup: 1973

Individual

Belgian First Division Top Scorer: 1966–67

Writer and commentator After his football career had ended, Mulder became a well-known writer, columnist and television-personality in the Netherlands, making his debut analysing a match of the Netherlands national football team broadcast by TV channel RTL 4 in 1996. From that point onwards he would frequently guest star in the RTL 4 shows by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp, who presented both football-related programmes as well as talkshows concerning more political and social/public subjects. After having been a daily guest-star on the show Villa BvD, a football show during the 1998 World Cup in France (also hosted by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp), Mulder made more and more TV appearances until finally becoming daily guest-star on the late-night talkshow Barend & Van Dorp since March 1999, until the show stopped in April 2006.

The final season of Barend & Van Dorp was shown on the channel Talpa, who had bought the programme from RTL 4 during the summer of 2005. Jan Mulder also frequently appeared on another show that was broadcast by Talpa; Eredivisie – De Wedstrijden, which aires several times a week and shows highlights of the Dutch Football League (the Eredivisie). After Barend & Van Dorp Mulder became a weekly side kick in De Wereld Draait Door.

Mulder has also written several works, ranging from ultra-short stories to novels. Most people will associate his name with CaMu, the partnership between Remco Campert (Ca) and Jan Mulder (Mu) that has been writing daily front-page columns for national newspaper de Volkskrant since 1995. These columns are traditionally bundled into books entitled CaMu Jaaroverzicht at the end of each year.