Geoffrey_Prommayon
Geoffrey Prommayon
Thai-born Dutch footballer
Geoffrey Prommayon (born 25 October 1971) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in Thailand, he represented the Netherlands internationally at youth level.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1971-10-25) 25 October 1971 (age 52) | ||
| Place of birth | Udon Thani, Thailand | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1983–1990 | PSV | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1995 | PSV | 44 | (0) |
| 1991 | → Sparta Rotterdam (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1992–1994 | → FC Eindhoven (loan) | 57 | (4) |
| 1996–2001 | Willem II | 137 | (1) |
| 2002–2005 | FC Eindhoven | 39 | (1) |
| 2005–2011 | Blauw Geel '38 | ||
| Total | 277 | (6) | |
| International career | |||
| 1988 | Netherlands U17 | 1 | (0) |
| 1990 | Netherlands U19 | 5 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Prommayon played professional football between 1990 and 2005. He started his career at PSV and was sent on loan to Sparta Rotterdam in early 1991 and later to FC Eindhoven in 1992.[1] From 1994 to December 1995 he played for PSV again. From 1996 to 2001, he played with Willem II in Tilburg. He ended his professional career in 2005 at his former club FC Eindhoven. In total, he made 322 appearances in which he scored seven goals.
After his professional career he started playing football with the amateurs of Blauw Geel '38 from Veghel in the Hoofdklasse.[2] There, he became assistant coach in the 2011–12 season. In 2013, he started playing at PSV/av, the amateur team of PSV, where he retired in 2017. After this, he became an assistant coach at PSV/av, where he occasionally participated as a player.[3]
Prommayon has worked for car rental company Hertz since 2005, and resides in Geldrop.[4]
Family
Prommayon was born in Udon Thani, Thailand,[5] to a Thai mother and an American serviceman. His father was recalled to the United States before Prommayon's first birthday. Prommayon moved to the Netherlands with his mother when he was eight. Later in his life, when he was 27, he wrote a letter to the television program Spoorloos asking if they could trace down his father. The program found his biological father, Elmo Blackman, through an American veteran archive and brought him to the Netherlands, where Prommayon subsequently met him for the first time.[5]
Legal issues
In 2003 he was arrested together with fellow footballers Yassine Abdellaoui and Adil Ramzi, on suspicion of money laundering with a cigar dealer from Breda. In January 2008, Prommayon and Abdellaoui were taken to court. Ramzi was not subsequently not prosecuted. On 28 January 2008 it was announced that Prommayon was no longer suspected of money laundering, but instead of laundering thirty thousand euros. In October 2010, he was acquitted of money laundering by the court, but together with Abdellaoui sentenced to a two-month suspended sentence for laundering $ 38,000 made in dealing MDMA.[6]
PSV
- Snijders, Pascal (5 April 2013). "Geoffrey Prommayon gaat bij PSV/av voetballen". Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- van Boxtel, Tim (16 April 2018). "PSV, de bajes en Spoorloos: het leven van Geoffrey Prommayon". Vice Media (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- van den Berghe, Roy (7 June 2020). "Prommayon vindt rust na turbulente tijd: 'Ambities om terug te keren in de voetbalwereld heb ik niet'". Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- Pietersen, Rob (12 May 1999). "'Je wilt weten hoe hij lacht, hoe hij praat'". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- "Ex-voetbalprofs veroordeeld voor heling". Het Parool (in Dutch). 11 October 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- Geoffrey Prommayon at WorldFootball.net