Profile Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Personal information

Full name : Rutgerus Johannes

Martinus van Nistelrooij

Date of birth : 1 July 1976

Place of birth : Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands

Height : 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

Playing position : Striker

Current club : Hamburger SV

Number : 22

Senior career :

1994–1997 Den Bosch

1997–1998 Heerenveen

1998–2001 PSV Eindhoven

2001–2006 Manchester United

2006–2010 Real Madrid

2010– Hamburger SV

National team :

1998– Netherlands

Club career

Early career

Born in Oss, North Brabant, Van Nistelrooy commenced his representative career in 1993 with Dutch second division side Den Bosch, where he was transformed from a inside defender to quintessence ahead later playing part-time for Nooit Gedacht and Magriet. After netting 12 objectives in 31 sporting activities in the 1996–97 campaign, he transferred for €360,000 to Heerenveen the subsequent year, and scored 13 objectives in 31 fits in his simply season with the club. He was afterward signalled by PSV Eindhoven the subsequent season for €6.3 million, a then-record transfer sum between couple Dutch teams. He scored 31 objectives in 34 fits, the highest season total in the Eredivisie and second-highest in Europe overall, in supplement to scoring all three of PSV's objectives in a Champions League fit against HJK Helsinki on 25 November 1998. Van Nistelrooy capped off the year by winning the Dutch Player of the Year award. The subsequent season, he won his second Eredivisie scoring label with 29 goals. According to a 2001 interview with The Telegraph, Manchester United omnibus Alex Ferguson said that his son Darren, any person who was at tryouts for Eredivisie rival Heerenveen at the time, begged his male parent, "You've received to pointer Van Nistelrooy right away, he's fantastic. We've been watching him." Ferguson sent team representatives to PSV's subsequent league game and signalled Van Nistelrooy the subsequent day.

Van Nistelrooy stared set to achieve an £18.5 million transfer to Manchester United in the summer of 2000. A press group assemblage had been summoned to assure Van Nistelrooy's arrival, but instead this was adapted to report that the transfer had been delayed through fears come seal his fitness. Days resultant, he suffered ruptured cruciate knee ligaments during a training session and the trade was axed. When the transaction was finished in April 2001, United were compelled to compensate PSV an other £500,000 for the player's services due to the modification in exchange rates between Euro and Sterling.

Manchester United

Van Nistelrooy signalled a five-year contract later surpassing his medical. He downplayed United's £19 million money to writers, expression "The price is not heavy for me – it lifting tools me higher because it method United have high confidence in me." During his first season, Van Nistelrooy scored 23 objectives in 32 league games. He cracked the record he shared with Mark Stein, Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry, by scoring in eight consecutive league games. He also scored 10 Champions League objectives, and was called the PFA Players' Player of the Year. The pursuing season, he wrapped higher as the seal Premier League scorer with 25 in 34 sporting activities, surrounding three hat-tricks, and he ended the season on another eight-game scoring streak. He commenced the 2003–04 season by scoring two times in his first couple league fits, which strengthened his objectives in consecutive sporting activities record to 10 fits in a row. He scored his 100th objective for the club in a 4–3 victory through Everton on 7 February 2004. He scored couple objectives, one a chastisement, in United's victory through Millwall in the 2004 FA Cup Final.

Van Nistelrooy missed bulk of the 2004–05 season due to injury, but nonetheless scored a Champions League-best eight goals. One of them was his thirtieth career European objective, which he scored in a 2–2 Champions League assembly point draw with Lyon on 16 September 2004, overtaking Denis Law's beforehand club record of 28 goals. Law resultant said to writers, "I'm delighted for Ruud. It could not occur to a nicer guy." Manchester United were eliminated by eventual finalists Milan in the knockout point later overseen scoreless in both legs. At the commence of the 2005–06 season, Van Nistelrooy scored in United's first four Premier League games. He wrapped higher as the second-highest league scorer with 21 objectives, behind Arsenal's Thierry Henry. By the end of his fifth season with United, Van Nistelrooy had collected 150 objectives in fewer than 200 starts.

Van Nistelrooy was benched for the League Cup final against Wigan Athletic, fuelling speculation of a rift between him and omnibus Alex Ferguson, which Van Nistelrooy denied. He was nonetheless withdrew on the bench for six consecutive league fits, and though he afterward returned to the commencing line-up and scored match-winners against West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers, fresh distrust spread through Van Nistelrooy's future after he was benched for United's season finale win through Charlton Athletic. Ferguson contended that Van Nistelrooy was irate at the judgement and withdrew the stadium three hours in the past kick-off. On 9 May 2006, Setanta Sports reported that Van Nistelrooy's omission from the squad was due to a training session scuffle between him and team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo. Van Nistelrooy sopposedly criticised Ronaldo's movement to retain onto the ball instead of surpassing to his team-mates, which sparked the scuffle, later which Van Nistelrooy remarked, "Go crying to your daddy." The written material contended that this was not a reference to Ronaldo's male parent (who had died quicker in the season), but to United's Portuguese employee omnibus, Carlos Queiroz. Van Nistelrooy signalled with Spanish side Real Madrid on 28 July 2006, moving out Manchester United later five seasons with a total of 150 objectives in 220 attainments, as well as the club's all-time European scoring record with 38 goals.

Real Madrid

On 15 July 2006, Ferguson confirmed that Van Nistelrooy trusted to withdraw Manchester United, and Real Madrid transmitted couple weeks resultant that he had signalled a three-year contract later being purchased for €24 million.Van Nistelrooy scored a hat-trick in his second league fit against Levante and, on 12 November 2006, he scored all four of Real Madrid's objectives in a 4–1 victory through Osasuna. He won the league's Pichichi award with 25 objectives as Real Madrid took home the 2006–07 label, and he also equalled the longest consecutive scoring streak in La Liga history with seven straight fits, securing a league record shared by Hugo Sánchez.

In January 2008, Van Nistelrooy signalled a contract extension saving him with Madrid until 2010, with the expiration date one day shy of his 34th birthday. He underwent ankle doctors in March, and returned for the El Clásico derby against Barcelona on 7 May, in which he netted a chastisement couple minutes later originating on as a substitute. He wrapped higher the season with 20 objectives in 32 appearances. In November 2008, Real Madrid transmitted that Van Nistelrooy would miss the remnant of the 2008–09 season later exploratory arthroscopic doctors divulged a to numerous extent shredded meniscus in his right knee, with an expected recovery time of six to nine months pursuing a second task to repair the damage. Van Nistelrooy journeyed to the United States to suppose specialist Richard Steadman, any person who had at one time run on the same knee behind in 2000. At the time of his injury, he had 10 objectives in 12 club attainments for the season. Following the injury, he was de-registered by Real Madrid for the unwind of the 2008–09 season, and his shirt diagram was given to Dani Parejo. In the terminal preseason game in the past the commence of La Liga, Van Nistelrooy stepped on the sound for the first time since his injury and played the terminal fifteen minutes of the game against Rosenborg, substituting Kaká. Van Nistelrooy came on for Cristiano Ronaldo in the 80th very small against Xerez in his first La Liga fit since recovering from his injury. In the 81st very small, he granted the augment for a Benzema objective, pursuing it with his have 88th very small goal. However, during his assault, he picked higher a thigh injury. It was divulged by Real Madrid that he would be out from first team motion for higher to six weeks. On 27 October, Van Nistelrooy organised his second comeback of the season originating on as a substitute for Raúl in the 71st very small against Alcorcon in the Copa del Rey

Hamburger SV

On 23 January 2010, Van Nistelrooy signalled an 18-month contract with Hamburg with the German club until June 2011. He organised his first attainment for the club, originating off the bench in the terminal couple minutes of Hamburg's 3–3 draw with Cologne on 6 February. Van Nistelrooy scored his first couple objectives for Hamburg on 13 February 2010 against Stuttgart in the 75th and 77th minutes of a 3–1 win, later entering the game just a small proportion minutes prior. On 11 March 2010, Van Nistelrooy scored his first Europa League objective in the 40th very small of Hamburg's fit against Anderlecht.

On 15 August 2010, Van Nistelrooy scored his first competitive hat-trick with Hamburg, in a 5–1 win through Torgelower SV Greif during throughout 1 of the 68th season of the DFB-Pokal. On 21 August 2010, he scored a brace in the season opener against Schalke 04, which Hamburg won 2–1. During that fit he played against his associate and earlier team-mate Raúl, any person who organised his Bundesliga debut.

International career

As the Dutch went incorrect to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, Van Nistelrooy had to wait four years to play in his first and terminal World Cup. During a 2006 World Cup qualifying fit, he scored in the Dutch's 4–0 securing of bottom-placed Andorra and was yellow-carded for overseen to Andorra performer Antoni Lima and celebrating in front of him, pursuing an happening six minutes in the past after Nistelrooy missed a chastisement and Lima laughed at him. He was a component of omnibus Marco van Basten's squad for the 2006 World Cup finals, for which he served as the official FIFA/SOS ambassador. He commenced, and was substituted, in all of the Netherlands' assembly point fits, and scored his solitary objective against the Côte d'Ivoire. Van Nistelrooy was benched for the Netherlands' final fit, which saw them eliminated in the knockout point by Portugal.

Van Basten withdrew the striker off the squad for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland on 16 August 2006. Dirk Kuyt deposed Van Nistelrooy in their subsequent fit against Portugal in September. After Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was unavailable for Euro 2008 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Belarus due to injury, Van Nistelrooy refused Van Basten's ask for to take his location on the roster.

On 23 January 2007, Van Nistelrooy transmitted his retirement from worldwide football pursuing numerous objections with omnibus Marco van Basten. However, later some phone conversations and at the persuasion of veteran Edwin van der Sar, both performer and omnibus left aside their differences. Van Basten transmitted four months resultant that Van Nistelrooy was returning to the Oranje. On 8 September, Van Nistelrooy overflowing Huntelaar's spot, as at one time ordered, for the qualifier against Bulgaria, scoring in a 2–0 victory, and scored the winning objective four days resultant in injury time of the Netherlands' win through Albania.

At Euro 2008, Van Nistelrooy scored for the Netherlands in their settled 3–0 victory through Italy in the assembly point, and scored the equaliser in their eventual 3–1 loss to Russia in the quarter-finals. On 4 August, he again transmitted his retirement from worldwide competition. During the amass to the 2010 World Cup Van Nistelrooy again organised himself available, but was withdrew out by van Marwijk, the Dutch team coach. After main striker Robin van Persie suffered an injury during a fit with his club Arsenal, Van Marwijk gave Van Nistelrooy a chance to reclaim his placement as the main striker of The Netherlands' national team. Van Nistelrooy was invited for couple of the Netherlands' Group E qualification fits for EURO 2012 against San Marino and Finland. Van Nistelrooy scored in the 5–0 victory against San Marino on 3 September 2010.