✯✯✯✯✯ Marcel "Marco" van Basten is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for AFC Ajax and A.C. Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is regarded as one of the greatest forwards of all time and has scored 277 goals in a high-profile career cut short by injury. Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, van Basten was named European Footballer of the Year three times (1988, '89 and '92) and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992. Ajax:- UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1987 Eredivisie: 1981--82, 1982--83, 1984--85 KNVB Cup: 1983, 1986, 1987 A.C Milan:- European Cup: 1989, 1990 Intercontinental Cup: 1989, 1990 European Supercup: 1989, 1990 Serie A: 1987--88, 1991--92, 1992--93 Supercoppa Italiana: 1988, 1992, 1993 International:- UEFA European Championship: 1988 Nasazzi's Baton: 1985 Individual honours:- FIFA World Player of the Year: 1992 World Soccer Player of the Year: 1988, 1992 UEFA Best Player of the Year: 1989, 1990, 1992 IFFHS Best Player of the Year: 1988, 1989, 1990 Onze d'Or: 1988, 1989 Onze d'Argent: 1987, 1992 Bravo Award: 1987 UEFA European Championship 1988 Top Scorer and Best Player with 5 goals European Footballer of the Year: 1988, 1989, 1992 Dutch Footballer of the Year: 1984--85 FIFA 100 (List of the greatest living footballers picked by Pelé): 2004 European Golden Boot: 1985--86 European Silver Boot: 1983--84 European Cup Top Scorer: 1989 European Cup Silver Top Scorer: 1993 Dutch League Top Scorer: 1983--84, 1984--85, 1985--86, 1986--87 Serie A Top Scorer: 1989--90, 1991--92 Serie A Silver Top Scorer: 1988--89 World Golden Boot: 1985--86

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