Robin van der Laan is a Dutch former footballer who spent most of his senior career in English football. He now works as the director of his own soccer school in Canada, also working as a senior coach for Manchester United Soccer Schools. He began his playing career in his native the Netherlands with Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging in 1987, helping them to top the Eerste Divisie in 1989?90, before moving on to Wageningen in 1990. In 1991 he moved to England to play for Port Vale, where after four seasons as one of the club's key players he was sold on to Derby County. He won the Football League Trophy with Vale in 1993, and won promotion out of the Second Division in 1993?94. He also won promotion out of the First Division with Derby in 1995?96. In 1998 he transferred to Barnsley, where he saw out his professional playing career until his retirement due to injury in 2001. He made a total of 314 appearances in a ten-year career in the Football League. 

September 5th, 1968 in Schiedam (Age 56)