Career
Yzendoorn was signed by Heidelberg United in 1979, playing four seasons with the Melbourne based club in the National Soccer League. He joined fierce rivals South Melbourne in 1983, and helped them to their first national championship in 1984. After three years with South Melbourne, he moved to Brunswick Juventus in 1986, where he spent the final three seasons of his national domestic career.
In 2009, he became one of the initial inductees into the South Melbourne Hall of Fame.
Yzendoorn made his international debut at the age of 23, when he was selected by Rudi Gutendorf to play in a two-match series against Partizan Belgrade in 1979, where he came on as a substitute in both matches. His first ‘A’ international cap came against Czechoslovakia in 1980, where he again appeared off the bench in the Socceroos 2-2 draw at Olympic Park in Melbourne.
He scored his first and only international goal in another 2-2 draw against Mexico in Sydney later that year.
