Jasper Cillessen

Jasper Cillessen is a Dutch footballer goalkeeper. Cillessen was born on 22 April 1989 in a small town of Groesbeek, where he started playing football in a local team De Treffers. In 2001 Cillessen moved to NEC, where he sealed his first professional deal. The goalkeeper played in the reserve team until the season 2008/2009 when he for the first time got into the line-up of the team in the match against SC Heerenveen and was even named “The man of the match”. Subsequently Cillessen secured his place in the squad, becoming a first choice goalkeeper.

After the season 2010/2011 he received the title “Gelderland football player of the season”.

On 27 August 2011 Jasper Cillessen signed a 5-year deal with Ajax. He appeared in the starting line-up for the first time on 21 September 2011 in the KNVB Cup game against VV Noordwijk.

Cillessen played for Netherlands U-21 team and was included in the player’s list of the national team in the games against Brazil and Uruguay.