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Johannes "Hans" Segers (born 30 October 1961) is a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 goalkeeper, who is famous for his playing career in England
England

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.

Segers was born in Eindhoven
Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams....
, Noord-Brabant. His early career was with home-town club PSV Eindhoven
PSV Eindhoven

Philips Sport Vereniging , widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football department....
, before being signed for Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest F.C. is an England professional Football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham. It is currently playing in the second tier of English league football, Football League Championship....
 by Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, Order of the British Empire was an England association football and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County F.C....
 during 1984. Although he played four seasons with Nottingham Forest, his final season included loan spells with Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional England football club based in the Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They currently play in the English Football League Championship....
, Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is a association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Founded in 1863, Stoke is the oldest club in the Premier League, and the second oldest professional football club after Notts County F.C.....
 and Dunfermline Athletic
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scotland Football team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline. They play at East End Park, Dunfermline and are nicknamed The Pars....
.

His career revived when he was signed as replacement for Dave Beasant
Dave Beasant

David John "Dave" Beasant, is a former England association football goalkeeper who began his career in the late 1970s. A well-travelled player, Beasant's former clubs include Newcastle United F.C., Chelsea F.C., Southampton F.C., Nottingham Forest F.C., Portsmouth F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion F.C....
 by Wimbledon
Wimbledon F.C.

Wimbledon Football Club was a Association football club that began life in Wimbledon, London, south west London. Founded in 1911 in football as Wimbledon Borough, the club spent most of its history in non-league football, before a rapid ascent to the FA Premier League of English football in the late 1970s and early 1980s, staying in the old...
, and from 1988 until 1996 was first choice goalkeeper making 265 league appearances.






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Johannes "Hans" Segers (born 30 October 1961) is a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 goalkeeper, who is famous for his playing career in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

Segers was born in Eindhoven
Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams....
, Noord-Brabant. His early career was with home-town club PSV Eindhoven
PSV Eindhoven

Philips Sport Vereniging , widely known either as PSV or PSV Eindhoven, is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football department....
, before being signed for Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.

Nottingham Forest F.C. is an England professional Football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham. It is currently playing in the second tier of English league football, Football League Championship....
 by Brian Clough
Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, Order of the British Empire was an England association football and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County F.C....
 during 1984. Although he played four seasons with Nottingham Forest, his final season included loan spells with Sheffield United
Sheffield United F.C.

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional England football club based in the Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They currently play in the English Football League Championship....
, Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is a association football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Founded in 1863, Stoke is the oldest club in the Premier League, and the second oldest professional football club after Notts County F.C.....
 and Dunfermline Athletic
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scotland Football team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline. They play at East End Park, Dunfermline and are nicknamed The Pars....
.

His career revived when he was signed as replacement for Dave Beasant
Dave Beasant

David John "Dave" Beasant, is a former England association football goalkeeper who began his career in the late 1970s. A well-travelled player, Beasant's former clubs include Newcastle United F.C., Chelsea F.C., Southampton F.C., Nottingham Forest F.C., Portsmouth F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion F.C....
 by Wimbledon
Wimbledon F.C.

Wimbledon Football Club was a Association football club that began life in Wimbledon, London, south west London. Founded in 1911 in football as Wimbledon Borough, the club spent most of its history in non-league football, before a rapid ascent to the FA Premier League of English football in the late 1970s and early 1980s, staying in the old...
, and from 1988 until 1996 was first choice goalkeeper making 265 league appearances. In 1994 he was accused of involvement in match fixing
Match fixing

In organized sports, match fixing or game fixing occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law....
, together with Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club plays in the Premier League, and it is the Football records in England#Most successful clubs overall in the history of Football in England; the club has won List of football clubs in England by major honours won than any other English cl...
 goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce Grobbelaar

Bruce David Grobbelaar is a former Rhodesian-Zimbabwean-British Football goalkeeper. He played for a number of clubs, most notably Liverpool F.C....
, Wimbledon striker
Striker

Forwards, also known as attackers and strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals....
 John Fashanu
John Fashanu

John "Fash" Fashanu is a United Kingdom television presenter and ex-football of Nigerian & Guyana descent. In his former career, he was a striker ....
 and a Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
n businessman. The case was referred to Winchester Crown Court for a criminal trial in 1997 but all four defendants were cleared. In December 1997, Grobbelaar and Segers were found guilty by the Football Association
The Football Association

The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependency of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man....
 of breaching betting regulations.

From 1996 to 1998, Segers was a goalkeeper for Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in the City of Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands of England....
 and Woking
Woking F.C.

Woking Football Club is a association football club from in Woking, Surrey, England, formed in 1889. They currently play in the Blue Square Premier....
 before ending his playing career at Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, , is an English professional association football club which currently plays in the Premier League. Commonly referred to as Spurs, the club's home stadium is White Hart Lane, Tottenham, in the London Borough of Haringey N postcode area....
 in 2001. He was goalkeeper-coach at Tottenham Hotspur until 26 October 2007 when he was asked to stand down with immediate effect following the sacking of Martin Jol
Martin Jol

Maarten Cornelis "Martin" Jol is a Netherlands Association football Coach and former midfielder. He is currently the manager of German Fu?ball-Bundesliga club Hamburger SV....
.