Once an absolute top defender at Feyenoord and PSV and now a happy plumber: ‘I miss the Dutch sprinkles’

You have sober and sober, but there is still a superlative: Ivan Nielsen. The 68-year-old defensive icon from the eighties has a cigarette in the garden in the garden with his generation party Jan Heintze in Nuenen in Nuenen when he thinks back to the heyday of his football life. “It was a good time,” he says dryly over his eleven tropical years at Feyenoord and PSV. “But what I am doing now, I find at least as beautiful.”

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