Tim Steens
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Timotheus Bernardus Steens (born December 13, 1955 in Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player, who earned a total number of 162 caps, scoring 12 goals for the Netherlands national field hockey team
Netherlands national field hockey team
The Netherlands national field hockey team is the national team of the Netherlands that participates in international field hockey matches and tournaments...

 in the 1970s and 1980s.

He played for the Dutch hockey team HC Klein Zwitserland
HC Klein Zwitserland
HC Klein Zwitserland is a field hockey club from The Hague, Netherlands, which was founded on September 20, 1908. With 1.591 members – as of January 1, 2006 – it is the tenth club in the Netherlands...

. He was a member of the bronze medal-winning Dutch team at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

 in Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

. Steens is the younger brother of Dutch field hockey Olympian Ron Steens
Ron Steens
Ronaldus Franciscus Johannes Steens is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...

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