As a junior player, he played for the Belgian national team Boys Under 16 and won the European title with them. Later on, he switched to the Dutch national teams and won European silver and gold medals for the
Dutch under-21 team and the silver medal at the
Junior World Championship. He played his first official match for the
senior Dutch national men's team in 2007 against
South Korea. He is the only player to be selected for the Dutch national team without ever having played in the Dutch competition prior to his debut. At the
2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the
men's tournament, winning the silver medal. With the national team, he won a gold medal in the first
Hockey World League in
2014, silver at the
World Cup that same year and a gold medal in 2015 at the European Championship. He participated in the Rio Olympics in 2016 where he made the semi-final. In August 2017 he extended his European title in Amsterdam beating his other homeland Belgium in the final. In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the
2019 EuroHockey Championship. They won the bronze medal by defeating
Germany 4–0. ==Honours==