Dirk Kuyt

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Dirk Kuyt
Dirk Kuijt-Feyenoord-DSC0058.jpg
Dirk Kuyt (2015)
Personnel
birthday July 22, 1980
place of birth Katwijk ,  Netherlands
size 184 cm
position Right winger and center forward ,
right and left full-back
Juniors
Years station
1985-1998 Quick Boys Katwijk
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2003 FC Utrecht 160 (51)
2003-2006 Feyenoord Rotterdam 101 (71)
2006–2012 Liverpool FC 208 (51)
2012-2015 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 95 (26)
2015-2017 Feyenoord Rotterdam 63 (31)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998 Netherlands U18 at least 05 0(2)
2000 Netherlands U21 at least 11 0(6)
2004-2014 Netherlands 104 (24)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 15, 2017

Dirk Kuyt ( Anglicized by Kuijt ; born July 22, 1980 in Katwijk , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch football player . For the Dutch national team who played striker 104 international matches, most recently as a full-back .

Early life

Dirk Kuyt was born as the third of four children in the seaside resort Katwijk aan Zee in the municipality of Katwijk in South Holland . His father Gerrit, who died in 2007 of throat cancer , was a fisherman . If Kuyt hadn't become a soccer player, he would have followed the same career path as his father. He started playing football at the age of five with the Quick Boys Katwijk , where he went through all age groups. In 1998, at the age of 18, he was promoted to the first team and made a few appearances in the Hoofdklasse , at that time the top division in Dutch amateur football. There he convinced with his performances and caught the attention of the first division club FC Utrecht , who then signed him.

Career

society

Kuyt began his professional career in 1998 with FC Utrecht , for whom he scored 51 goals in 160 Eredivisie games up to 2003 and won the Dutch Cup in 2003. In 2003 he moved to Feyenoord Rotterdam , where he scored 71 goals in 101 games. In the 2004/05 season he was the top scorer in the Dutch league with 29 goals, but only finished fourth in the honor division with Feyenoord. Kuyt extended his contract with Feyenoord until 2009 and reached third place in the league with his club the following season.

On August 18, 2006, his previous club and Liverpool agreed on a transfer fee of 18 million euros for the striker. This makes it the most expensive sale in Feyenoord's history. At his new employer, Kuyt was a constant and played in his first season 34 games in the Premier League , in which he scored twelve goals. He also reached the final of the Champions League with Liverpool , which his team lost to AC Milan. Kuyt scored with the ultimately meaningless connection goal to 1: 2 in the 89th minute of the game, his first CL goal.

In the following season he played after the commitment of the Spaniard Fernando Torres increasingly as a right winger and came to significantly fewer goals. In the Premier League, he only scored three times, including two penalties in the Merseyside Derby against Everton . He was more successful in the Champions League , scoring five times in eleven games, including in the round of 16 against Inter Milan , in the quarter-finals against Arsenal and in the semi-finals against Chelsea . However, he could not repeat the final from last year with Liverpool, as they failed in the semi-finals at Chelsea.

During the summer break of 2012, Kuyt moved to Fenerbahçe Istanbul . He signed a three-year contract. With the end of his contract with Fenerbahçe, he moved to his former club Feyenoord Rotterdam in summer 2015 . He ended his career after the 2016/17 season.

National team

Kuyt at the European Championship game against Denmark (2012)

Kuyt made his debut in the Dutch national team on September 3, 2004 against Liechtenstein (3-0) as a substitute . He quickly became a fixture and played eleven of the twelve qualifying games for the Elftal during qualifying for the 2006 World Cup .

With the Netherlands he finally took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and was eliminated in the second round after a defeat against Portugal . Kuyt was used in three games, but remained without a goal.

Also in the 2008 European Cup he was part of the squad of the Oranje . Here he was used in all four games and scored one goal in a 4-1 victory over runner-up world champions France . However, the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarterfinals against Russia .

At the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa , he was also in the Dutch starting line-up. After three wins in the group stage, the Netherlands were also able to beat Slovakia , Brazil and Uruguay . The team only failed in the final against the Spanish team .

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he was nominated again for the Dutch squad. Kuyt acted in the new 5-3-2 system of bond coach Louis van Gaal as a full-back and played his 100th international match in the round of 16 against Mexico (2-1) .

At the beginning of October 2014, Kuyt announced his retirement from the national team after 104 international matches and 24 goals.

Others

Kuyt's role model in football is Ruud Gullit . He has been married since 2003 and has four children (three sons, one daughter) with his wife Gertrude, a former nurse .

Achievements and Awards

society

Kuyt at Fenerbahçe in 2012

National team

Personal honors

Season statistics

society league season league Cup League Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
Logo of FC Utrecht
FC Utrecht 		NetherlandsNetherlands Eredivisie 1998/99 28 5 2 1 - - - - - - 30th 6th
1999/00 32 6th 4th 4th - - - - - - 36 10
2000/01 32 13 5 3 - - - - - - 37 16
2001/02 34 7th 3 3 - - 4th 1 - - 41 11
2002/03 34 20th 4th 2 - - 2 1 - - 40 23
total 160 51 18th 13 - - 6th 2 - - 184 66
Logo of Feyenoord Rotterdam
Feyenoord 		NetherlandsNetherlands Eredivisie 2003/04 34 20th 2 1 - - 4th 1 - - 40 22nd
2004/05 34 29 3 4th - - 7th 3 - - 44 36
2005/06 33 22nd 1 0 - - 2 1 2 2 38 25th
total 101 71 6th 5 - - 13 5 2 2 122 83
Liverpool FC logo
Liverpool FC 		EnglandEngland Premier League 2006/07 34 12 1 1 2 0 11 1 - - 48 14th
2007/08 32 3 4th 1 - - 12 7th - - 48 11
2008/09 38 12 2 0 - - 11 3 - - 51 15th
2009/10 37 9 2 0 1 0 13 2 - - 53 11
2010/11 33 13 1 0 - - 7th 2 - - 41 15th
2011/12 34 2 6th 1 5 2 - - - - 45 5
total 208 51 16 3 8th 2 54 15th - - 286 71
Fenerbahçe Istanbul logo
Fenerbahçe 		TurkeyTurkey Super Lig 2012/13 31 8th 7th 1 - - 17th 7th 1 1 56 17th
2013/14 32 10 - - - - 4th 0 1 0 37 10
2014/15 32 8th 4th 2 - - - - 1 0 37 10
total 95 26th 11 3 - - 21st 7th 3 1 130 37
Logo of Feyenoord Rotterdam
Feyenoord 		NetherlandsNetherlands Eredivisie 2015/16 32 19th 6th 4th - - - - - - 38 23
2016/17 31 12 2 3 - - 5 0 1 0 39 15th
total 63 31 8th 7th - - 5 0 1 0 77 38
Career total 627 230 59 31 8th 2 99 29 6th 3 799 295

Source: footballdatabase.eu, transfermarkt.de (as of May 15, 2017)

Web links

Commons : Dirk Kuyt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sprt.nl: Dirk Kuyt Biography - ... Ik ben born en getogen in Katwijk aan Zee, ... (accessed on May 30, 2014)
  2. ↑ Dirk Kuyt is the painter in Holland's artist team: hero of work. www.berliner-zeitung.de, June 17, 2008, accessed on August 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ "Kuyt extends" (transfermarkt.de)
  4. ↑ "Kuyt moves to Liverpool" (kicker.de)
  5. ↑ "Milan's sweet revenge" (kicker.de)
  6. ↑ "Everton FC - Liverpool 1: 2 (1: 0)" (kicker.de)
  7. ↑ "Kuyt cracks Inters Catenaccio" (kicker.de)
  8. ↑ "Arsenal with bad luck in the end" (kicker.de)
  9. ↑ "Riise the unlucky one" (kicker.de)
  10. ↑ "Moscow in red and blue!" (Kicker.de)
  11. ↑ https://www.feyenoord.com/news/news-overview/Dirk-Kuyt-announces-retirement
  12. ↑ "Portugal wins the" Battle of Nuremberg "" (kicker.de)
  13. ↑ "Oranje also duped the vice world champion" (kicker.de)
  14. ↑ "Torbinskiy and Arshavin deal the fatal blow" (kicker.de)
  15. ↑ RP Online : Dirk Kuyt: In an unusual position in the circle of hundreds , June 28, 2014
  16. ↑ Dirk Kuyt ( French ) footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  17. ↑ Dirk Kuyt . Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
predecessor Office successor

Cristian Chivu
Mark van Bommel 		Netherlands Footballer of the Year
2003
2006
Maxwell
Afonso Alves
personal data
SURNAME Kuyt, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuijt, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Katwijk , Netherlands , Kingdom of the Netherlands