Ruud van Nistelrooy | Football Heroes | Full Documentary
Ruud Van Nistelrooy, is a retired
Dutch footballer and current assistant manager for the Dutch
National Football Team. #
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Dutch football icon where you can get an insight into his journey from an ordinary boy to becoming one of the greatest player on
Earth. Also catch what
David Alan Gill,
British football executive and a vice-chairman of
The Football Association;
Sir Alex Ferguson, former football player and manager of
Manchester United;
Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer playing for Manchester United and is the captain of the
Netherlands national team as well as
Patrick Kluivert, football coach and a former Dutch football player have to say for Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
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Born in Oss,
North Brabant,
Van Nistelrooy started his professional career in
1993 with Dutch second division side Den
Bosch, where he was converted from a central midfielderto centre forward after playing part-time for Nooit Gedacht and Margriet.
After netting 12 goals in 31 games in the
1996–97 campaign, he transferred for €
360,
000 to
Heerenveen the next year, and scored 13 goals in 31 matches in his only season with the club. He was then signed by
PSV Eindhoven the next season for €6.3 million, a then-record transfer sum between two Dutch teams. He scored 31 goals in 34 matches, the highest season total in the
Eredivisie and second-highest in
Europe overall, in addition to scoring all three of
PSV's goals in a
Champions League match against
HJK Helsinki on
25 November 1998. Van Nistelrooy capped off the year by winning the Dutch
Player of the Year award.
The following season, he won his second Eredivisie scoring title with 29 goals.
Van Nistelrooy looked set to complete a club record £18.5 million transfer to Manchester United in the summer of
2000. He was to be unveiled at a press conference four days later, but this was instead used to announce that the transfer had been postponed over concerns about his fitness, having not played for a month due to problems with his knee. A year later, van
Nistelrooy signed a five-year contract after passing his medical. He downplayed
United's £19 million investment to reporters, saying ""The price is not heavy for me – it lifts me up because it means United have big confidence in me"".
On 15 July
2006,
Ferguson confirmed that Van Nistelrooy wanted to leave Manchester United and
Real Madrid announced two weeks later that he had signed a three-year contract after being purchased for €14 million. On
23 January 2010, Van Nistelrooy signed an 18-month contract with the
German club
Hamburger SV until June
2011.On 1 June 2011, Van Nistelrooy arrived at
Málaga CF to
sign a one-year contract with the La
Liga club on a free transfer. After joining the club, Van Nistelrooy was presented at the
Estadio La Rosaleda as he was welcomed by 15,000 Málaga fans. Van Nistelrooy earned 70 caps and scored 35 goals for the Netherlands. He made his debut for the national team in a friendly match against
Germany on
18 November 1998.
He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 56 goals. He is a three-time Champions League top scorer, as well as a top scorer in three different
European domestic leagues. Van Nistelrooy married his girlfriend,
Leontien Slaats, in July 2004. The couple had their first child, a girl named Moa
Annette, in
September 2006, and a son named
Liam in
March 2008. Van Nistelrooy and his wife are both heavily involved with the charity organization
SOS Children's Villages
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