Oscar Moens

Early career

Moens was born in 's-Gravenzande but raised in Maassluis. A youth prospect of Ajax – who had scouted him from his local club MSV '71 – Moens began his professional football career at second-tier Eerste Divisie team SVV in the 1990–91 season, where he was the backup to Joop Hiele. The team merged with Dordrecht '90 after his first season at the club, forming SVV/Dordrecht'90. For the 1992–93 season he transferred to Excelsior, where he emerged as a starter. He was then signed by Go Ahead Eagles in the winter of 1995–96 as this gave him the opportunity to play in the Eredivisie. At the end of this season he was brought to AZ Alkmaar for the sum of ƒ750,000 (€340,000).

AZ

At AZ, he played from 1996–97 to 1999–2000 as a member of the starting line-up, and he was called up for the national team. Chairman Dirk Scheringa was so content with Moens' performance that AZ offered him an – for the Eredivisie at the time – unprecedented ten-year contract, which included a payment for his image rights exclusive for his financial service company DSB Bank. This contract did not pass the scrutiny of the Belastingdienst (Tax and Customs Administration) however, and a subsequent conflict between Moens and Scheringa resulted in Moens calling in sick at the end of the 1999–2000 season. As a result, he was suspended from the first team indefinitely. In the 2000–01 season he was loaned out to RBC Roosendaal. With this club he played 14 games and halfway through the…

Moens made two appearances for the Netherlands national team. On 13 October 1998 he played his first international match in a friendly with Ghana in the Gelredome in Arnhem, which ended in 0–0. His second appearance was on 10 November 2001 against Denmark where he played the entire match. The final score was 1–1, with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scoring for Holland.

After retiring at Sparta Rotterdam, Moens picked up a commercial job at the club. In May 2014, it was announced that he had been appointed youth coach at the Feyenoord Academy, where he would specialise in coaching goalkeepers. He became goalkeepers' coordinator for Feyenoord two years later. He left the position in February 2020 after disagreements with management.