Dylan Galdino Junior Timber (born 15 April 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or right-back for Eerste Divisie club VVV-Venlo. He is the older brother of two younger twins Jurriƫn Timber and Quinten Timber who are also professional footballers respectively playing for Arsenal and Feyenoord. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the CuraƧao national team at the international level.
Timber is a youth product of DVSU Utrecht, Feyenoord, SV Kampong, SV Houten, and Sparta Nijkerk.[2] On 11 May 2022, he signed with Jong Utrecht on a two-year contract.[3]
On 4 May 2023, Timber signed a three-year contract with Eerste Divisie club VVV-Venlo.[4]
Born in the mainland Netherlands, Timber was called up to the CuraƧao national team for a set of friendlies in September 2022.[5] He debuted with CuraƧao in a friendly 3ā2 loss to Indonesia on 25 September 2022.[6]
Born in the Netherlands, Timber is of CuraƧaoans in the Netherlands|CuraƧaoan descent]]. Both his mother Marilyn and his father hail from CuraƧao, part of the ABC Islands in the Dutch Caribbean. Due to situations in the past, the family took on their maternal name Timber instead of taking the last name of their father, Maduro.[7] He has four brothers: Shamier, Chris, and twins Quinten and Jurriƫn.[8]