Tom van der Leegte

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Born
1977 (49 years old)
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Bergeijk, Netherlands

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Defensive Midfield

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Retired

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179 cm

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Tommie van der Leegte (born 27 March 1977) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. A former youth international, he represented clubs including PSV and VfL Wolfsburg.

Van de Leegte represented the Netherlands at youth international levels, playing for the under-18s at the 1995 UEFA European Under-18 Championship and the under-21s at the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

After football, he worked in the family business VDL Groep and owned various companies. In 2017, he suffered a brain hemorrhage.

In 2018, Van der Leegte revealed that he had been detained in Orange County jail, due to passport issues during a trip to Miami. A missing page in his passport and photos from a prior trip to Iraq raised suspicions, leading to hours of interrogation and incarceration. Van der Leegte described the experience as terrifying, with nearly 40 hours without food or sleep, before being released and sent back to the Netherlands.

In 2021 he became team manager at FC Eindhoven.

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