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LEGENDS - NETHERLANDS - KEYPLAYER - Ruud Gullit

Ruud Gullit NETHERLANDS

 

Personal information
Full name
Ruud Gullit
Date of birth
16 September 1962 
Place of birth
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height
1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)

Playing position
Forward, Midfielder


Youth career

ASV Meerboys
1967-1975

DWS
1975-1979

 

Senior career*


HFC Haarlem
1979-1982
91x apps / 32x goals

Feyenoord
1982-1985
85x apps / 30x goals

PSV EINDHOVEN
1985-1987
68x apps / 46x goals

Milan
1987-1993
117x apps / 35x goals

Sampdoria
1993-1994
31x apps / 15x goals

Milan
1994-1995
8x apps / 3x goals

Sampdoria
1994-1995
22x apps / 9x goals

Chelsea
1995-1998
49x apps / 4x goals


Total

465x apps / 175x goals

 

NATIONAL TEAM


 Netherlands U-21
1979
4x apps / 1x goals

Netherlands
1981-1994
66x apps / 17x goals


TEAMS MANAGED 

Chelsea
1996-1998

Newcastle United
1998-1999

Feyenoord
2004-2005

Los Angeles Galaxy
2007-2008

Terek Grozny
2011

(* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only)

 

Ruud Gullit, born Rudi Dil, 1 September 1962), is a Dutch football manager and former football player who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. 

He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup and Euro 92.

At club level, in 1987 he moved from PSV Eindhoven to A.C. Milan for a world record transfer fee.

Easily recognizable with his distinctive dreadlocks, he was part of the famed Dutch trio at Milan which included Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard. 

Gullit won three Serie A titles and two European Cups with Milan.

Gullit was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1987 and the World Soccer Player of the Year in 1987 and 1989. 

Normally an attacking midifielder, he was a versatile player, playing in numerous positions during his career. 

In 2004 he was named one of the Top 125 greatest living footballers as part of FIFA's 100th anniversary celebration.

Gullit was working to promote the Belgian-Dutch 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bid.

 

21 Mar 2015
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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