Maceo Rigters

Maceo Rigters
Personnel
birthday	January 22nd 1984
place of birth	Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size	177 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2004	SC Heerenveen	2 (0)
2004-2005	FC Dordrecht	17 (8)
2005-2007	NAC Breda	61 (5)
2007-2011	Blackburn Rovers	2 (0)
2008	→  Norwich City  (loan)	2 (0)
2008-2009	→  Barnsley FC  (loan)	19 (0)
2010-2011	→  Willem II Tilburg  (loan)	28 (5)
2011–2012	Gold Coast United	22 (4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2007	Netherlands U-21	9 (6)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 25, 2012

Maceo Rigters (born January 22, 1984 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch football player.

Career

Rigters began his professional career at SC Heerenveen . He made his debut in the 2003/04 season, but was only used in two games. In the 2004/05 season he moved to FC Dordrecht . There the striker scored 8 goals in 17 games and was then signed by NAC Breda , where he played until 2007.

For the 2007/08 season he moved to Blackburn Rovers . There he came only to two appearances in the Premier League and was loaned to Norwich City for a month in 2008 and to the second division club Barnsley FC before the start of the subsequent 2008/09 season. For the entire 2010/11 season, Willem II Tilburg was another loan club. In 2011 he finally left Blackburn permanently and moved to the Australian professional league A-League for Gold Coast United .

In 2007 Rigters was appointed to the Jong Oranje , the U21 team of the Netherlands. In the same year he won the U-21 European Football Championship with the team in 2007 , in which he was named the top scorer of the tournament with 4 goals in 5 games and was voted Man of the Game twice .

Web links

• Maceo Rigters in the database of weltfussball.de
• Maceo Rigters in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Rigters returns to Holland" ( Memento of the original from September 5, 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. (Blackburn Rovers FC)