Giovanni van Bronckhorst

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Giovanni van Bronckhorst
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Giovanni van Bronckhorst (2017)
Personnel
Surname Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst
birthday 5th February 1975 (age 45)
place of birth Rotterdam ,  Netherlands
size 176 cm
position Left-back / Left Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1981-1982 LMO Rotterdam
1982-1993 Feyenoord Rotterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1998 Feyenoord Rotterdam 109 (22)
1993-1994 →  RKC Waalwijk  (loan) 12 0(2)
1998-2001 Glasgow Rangers 73 (13)
2001-2003 Arsenal FC 41 0(2)
2003-2007 FC Barcelona 105 0(5)
2007-2010 Feyenoord Rotterdam 88 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996-2010 Netherlands 106 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011-2015 Feyenoord Rotterdam (assistant coach)
2012-2013 Feyenoord Rotterdam II
2015-2019 Feyenoord Rotterdam
1 Only league games are given.

Giovanni "Gio" Christiaan van Bronckhorst (born February 5, 1975 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch soccer player and today's soccer coach with Moluccan - Indonesian roots.

With Feyenoord Rotterdam , van Bronckhorst was the Dutch cup winner , with the Rangers Scottish champion and cup winner , with Arsenal FC English champion and cup winner . With FC Barcelona he won the Spanish Championship and the UEFA Champions League . Most recently he was again under contract with his parent club Feyenoord in Rotterdam. The national player, used in midfield and as a left-back , was the captain of Feyenoord and the Dutch national team , which he led to the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in his last tournament . Since his time at FC Barcelona, ​​he has been called Gio for a short time .

society

Beginnings in the Eredivisie

Van Bronckhorst came to Feyenoord as a child from LMO Rotterdam , where he played in all youth teams for the next eleven years. Here at the age of 18 he also received his first professional contract with the reigning champion in 1993. In his first season , however, he did not get the chance and was loaned to league competitor RKC Waalwijk , where Rotterdam's Alfred Schreuder had already moved before the season. Van Bronckhorst made twelve games in the second half of the season - partly offensively on the left side, partly centrally in midfield - for the relegation candidate, in which he scored two goals; the team was able to keep the class in the relegation. Van Bronckhorst's achievements convinced those responsible at Feyenoord to bring him back.

On September 21, 1994 he was in the 4-0 win in Heerenveen in the left midfield next to Henrik Larsson , Regi Blinker , Henk Fräser and veteran Arnold Scholten for the first time in the red and white jersey of the Rotterdam team. At the end of the 1994/95 season, he was able to celebrate his first title with Feyenoord, who was trained by Willem van Hanegem at the time, by winning the KNVB Cup . In the following year he became a regular player in the league and was able to gain his first international experience in the European Cup competition in seven games - including against Borussia Mönchengladbach and in the semi-final against SK Rapid Vienna . But under van Hanegem and his successors Arie Haan and Leo Beenhakker , van Bronckhorst won no further title with Feyenoord in the following two years. In the 1996/97 season the Rotterdam team reached the Champions League qualification with second place in the Eredivisie . They failed in the group stage to Manchester United and the eventual finalists Juventus Turin , but they were able to defeat them 2-0 in De Kuip .

Successes and setbacks in the UK

For the 1998/99 season van Bronckhorst moved - together with his national team mate Arthur Numan from PSV - to the Scottish top club Rangers FC in Glasgow , where their compatriot Dick Advocaat had just taken over the coaching office. The investments made by steel magnate and Rangers boss David Murray initially paid off: the club recaptured the Scottish championship from local rivals Celtic FC in the 1998/99 season and won the triple with cup and league cup, and the double from championship and in the following season Cup. In the European competitions, too, the Rangers initially played better than in previous seasons.

After the 2000/01 season, however, they were at the end of the season without a title; van Bronckhorst moved to the English runner-up Arsenal FC in London , where Arsène Wenger was rebuilding the team. Here he was supposed to replace Emmanuel Petit in midfield , but had strong competition with Sylvain Wiltord , Freddie Ljungberg , Ray Parlor and in the following season Eduardo César Gaspar and Gilberto Silva . A knee injury threw him back so that he never really got a chance with the English. Nevertheless, he also had his share in the 2002 Arsenal double and the 2003 Cup victory .

Time at FC Barcelona

For the 2003/04 season, van Bronckhorst moved to the Primera División for FC Barcelona , where his former bond coach Frank Rijkaard had taken over as coach. At Rijkaard he had already played on the left in defense of the national team; He now took on this role in a defense of the Catalans, in which Carles Puyol , Phillip Cocu , Rafael Márquez and Michael Reiziger were also playing at the time. Since "van Bronckhorst" was simply unpronounceable for Spaniards and Catalans, he was given a new name - as Gio , the abbreviation of his first name, he climbed the pinnacle of his footballing career. The Dutch parliamentary group - apart from Gio, Cocu, Reiziger and coach Rijkaard, in the 2003/04 season they were Patrick Kluivert , Marc Overmars and Edgar Davids , later also Mark van Bommel - and world-class players like Ronaldinho and, after 2004, Samuel Eto'o , Deco or Ludovic Giuly brought Barça back to the top of Spanish and European football. After finishing second in 2004, the team became Spanish champions in 2005 and 2006, plus they won the Champions League in 2006 .

The end of the day at the parent club

For the 2007/08 season he went back to Feyenoord, where he moved back to midfield from the position of left-back - which was taken over by Tim de Cler , who had been changed from AZ at the same time . With the Rotterdamers he was able to win the KNVB Cup again in 2008. Although he was only left-back in the national team, his former Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi selected him in early 2009 as the “best left-back in the world” in his fictional world selection.

After the 2010 World Cup , he ended his career.

National team (1996-2010)

Bond coach Guus Hiddink appointed the young Feyenoord player to the Dutch national team for the first time in 1996 . Here, too, he made his first games as a midfielder. He made his debut in orange dress in a friendly against world champions Brazil on August 31, 1996 in Amsterdam ; like van Bronckhorst made his first international match - between veterans like Frank and Ronald de Boer and Dennis Bergkamp - also his club mate Jean-Paul van Gastel (he came on a quarter of an hour before the end and made his first goal with a penalty in the final minute to 2-2 - Final result), Jaap Stam was in the formation for the second time. A year later, on September 4, 1997, he scored his first goal for the national team, the 1-0 lead in the friendly against South Africa in Johannesburg (the goal to the 2-0 final score was again scored by van Gastel). As a supplementary player, he was also in the World Cup qualification and was part of the World Cup squad , but was not used in the finals in France . His only international match in 1998 was a substitution in the 1-1 draw on November 18 in Gelsenkirchen's Park Stadium against Germany .

In his tenth international match, national coach Frank Rijkaard put him in the starting line-up for the first time as a left-back, curiously again in a 2-2 in a friendly against Brazil. In the position that had been his ranger club mate Arthur Numan's regular place up to and including the World Cup tournament, he now stayed in Orange and was also the first choice at the 2000 European Championships . Numan replaced him when he had to pause due to a yellow card suspension. After the failed qualification for the 2002 World Cup , in which he only took part in four of the ten games and scored one goal against Ireland , van Bronckhorst was also out of the national team for a year due to an injury. He made his comeback on February 12, 2003 in the Amsterdam Arena with a bang . In the friendly against Argentina he was substituted on for Mark van Bommel in the 71st minute, scored the only goal of the game with a shot from about 18 meters in the 87th minute and secured the national team a record of seven wins in a row.

Four years later, he played all five games of the European Championship , including the rousing 2: 3 against the Czech Republic after a 2-0 lead and the draw against Germany, over the full distance. At the 2006 World Cup , he was also on the pitch in all games, but had to go to the bench shortly before the end of the last 16 against Portugal after a yellow-red card. In the European Championship qualification he scored his fourth goal in Oranje , again a decisive goal: he played in midfield against Slovenia and scored the 1-0 winner in the 86th minute. Also in the 2008 European Cup he was part of the squad of the Oranje , was used in three games and scored one goal in the 3: 0 victory over Italy . Bondscoach Bert van Marwijk appointed the most experienced active player in the Netherlands with 97 international appearances in his 30-man squad for the 2010 World Cup in May 2010 . Since 2007, van Bronckhorst has represented Edwin van der Sar in his absence as team captain , after his resignation in 2008 he took over the captain's armband. At the World Cup , the Dutch team reached the final under van Bronckhorst's leadership. There the team only lost 1-0 to Spain in extra time. Van Bronckhorst was substituted on for Edson Braafheid in the 105th minute , it was the last game of his career. For the 2010 World Cup success, he was knighted by Queen Beatrix after the tournament .

Career as a coach

Following his career as a player, van Bronckhorst became a coach at Feyenoord. For the 2015/16 season , he finally took over the first team. In his very first season he won the cup with the Hafenstädtern, two seasons later Rotterdam won the championship and cup double.

On June 1, 2019, Jaap Stam succeeded him in the position of head coach.

Awards

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Commons : Giovanni van Bronckhorst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Messi vindt van Bronckhorst de beste ( Memento of the original of April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , aktuell.nu from January 7th, 2009, viewed on May 15th, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktueel.nu
  2. ↑ Gio makes after the World Cup final on kicker.de
  3. ↑ Victory in closing stages for Holland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PSV homepage from February 13, 2003, viewed on May 15, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.psv.nl  
  4. ↑ Accolade for van Bronckhorst , on Sport1.de of July 13, 2010
  5. ↑ Jaap Stam wordt nieuwe hoofdtrainer van Feyenoord , feyenoord.nl, accessed on March 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bronckhorst, Giovanni van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronckhorst, Giovanni Christiaan van (full name); Gio (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam , Netherlands