Adri van Tiggelen (born June 16, 1957 in Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland) is a former football defender from The Netherlands, who earned 56 caps for the Netherlands national football team although he never scored. He was a member of the Dutch team that won the European title at the 1988 European Football Championship in West Germany. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oud-Beijerland (population: 23,366 in 2004) is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ... This article is about the province of the Netherlands. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ... First international Belgium 1 - 4 Netherlands (Antwerp, Belgium; 30 April 1905) Largest win Netherlands 9 - 0 Norway (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1 November 1972) Worst defeat Netherlands 2 - 12 England Amateur (The Hague, Netherlands; 1 April 1907) World Cup Appearances 8 (First in 1934) Best result Runners-up, 1974 and 1978 European... Ruud Gullit lifts the trophy after winning the cup with the Netherlands The 1988 European Football Championship (Euro 88) final tournament was held in West Germany. ...

Nicknamed "De Spijker" ("The Nail"), he started his professional career with Sparta Rotterdam (1978-83), then moved to FC Groningen (1983-86), Anderlecht (1986-91), and PSV Eindhoven (1991-94). Van Tiggelen ended his career at Dordrecht'90 (1994-95). In July 2005 Van Tiggelen was the interim-coach who lead his former club Sparta back to the Dutch Eredivisie. Since then he's working as a trainer for the juniors of Sparta. // A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robby, Robbie, Robi, Bobby, Rab, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Bobadito, Robban, (in Sweden), is short for Robert). ... Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands, established on April 1, 1888. ... FC Groningen is a football club from Groningen in the Netherlands. ... Anderlecht within the Brussels-Capital Region Anderlecht is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. ... Philips Sport Vereniging (English: Philips Sports Union), widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. ... FC Dordrecht is a Dutch football club. ... Dutch Eredivisie The Eredivisie (English: Honorary Division) is the highest football league in the Netherlands. ...