Marc Overmars
| Marc Overmars | ||
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 29, 1973 | |
| place of birth | Emst , Netherlands | |
| size | 172 cm | |
| position | Left / Right Winger | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1978-1987 | SV Epe | |
| 1987-1990 | Go Ahead Eagles | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1990-1991 | Go Ahead Eagles | 11 (1) |
| 1991-1992 | Willem II Tilburg | 31 (1) |
| 1992-1997 | Ajax Amsterdam | 135 (36) |
| 1997-2000 | Arsenal FC | 100 (25) |
| 2000-2004 | FC Barcelona | 97 (15) |
| 2008-2009 | Go Ahead Eagles | 23 (3) |
| 2009-2010 | SV Epe | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1993-2004 | Netherlands | 86 (17) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Marc Overmars (born March 29, 1973 in Emst ) is a former Dutch soccer player and today's soccer official.
Career
He played in the Netherlands , England and Spain during his professional career . The left winger was also a Dutch national player . Because of his way of playing and his physical condition, his fans called him “the Roadrunner ” or simply “meep-meep” after the cartoon character of the same name .
Marc Overmars played 86 games in the Dutch national team and scored 17 goals. He played his first game for his country on February 24, 1993 against Turkey . His last game was at the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal , and the Dutch lost to the hosts in this semi-final.
Overmars began his career with the Dutch club SV Epe. He then played for the Go Ahead Eagles Deventer and Willem II Tilburg before moving to Ajax Amsterdam in the 1991/92 season.
Marc Overmars was very successful under coach Louis van Gaal at Ajax Amsterdam. He and his team won the Champions League against AC Milan in 1995 . In 1997 he moved from Ajax to Arsenal FC in England. There Overmars harmonized very well with Dennis Bergkamp and together they scored many goals. In the summer of 2000 he moved from Arsenal to FC Barcelona for around DM 45 million , where he ended his career in 2004. On June 30, 2004, Overmars played for the last time in the national team's jersey in the European Championship semi-finals. Overmars resigned from professional football on July 26, 2004. The reason for this was recurring knee pain, which he still struggles with today.
Overmars was the technical director at Go Ahead Eagles Deventer . In the 2008/09 season he played again actively for this club. In the 2009/2010 season he played again for SV Epe as a stand-by professional, and he began his career with the club from the Tweede class, zondag. He ended his career in the summer of 2010 and has been an intern in youth training at Ajax Amsterdam ever since . He has been Sports Director at Ajax Amsterdam since 2012.
World Cup / European Championship participation
- World Cup 1994 in the USA
- 1998 World Cup in France
- EM 2000 in the Netherlands / Belgium
- EM 2004 in Portugal
successes
- 3 × Dutch champions 1994, 1995, 1996
- 1 × Dutch cup winner 1993
- 3 × Dutch Supercup winner 1993, 1994, 1995
- 1 × English champion 1998
- 1 × English cup winner 1998
- 1 × Champions League winner 1995
- 1 × World Cup winner 1995
- 1 × UEFA Super Cup winner 1995
Season statistics
| society | league | season | league | Nat. Cup | European Cup | Other | total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | Games | Gates | |||
| Go Ahead Eagles | First Division | 1990/91 | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| total | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 1 | ||
| Willem II Tilburg | Eredivisie | 1991/92 | 31 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 1 |
| total | 31 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 1 | ||
| Ajax Amsterdam | Eredivisie | 1992/93 | 34 | 3 | 5 | 4th | 8th | 1 | - | - | 47 | 8th |
| 1993/94 | 34 | 12 | 4th | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | 43 | 12 | ||
| 1994/95 | 27 | 8th | 3 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 42 | 9 | ||
| 1995/96 | 15th | 11 | - | - | 6th | 2 | - | - | 21st | 13 | ||
| 1996/97 | 25th | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | 36 | 2 | ||
| total | 135 | 36 | 13 | 4th | 40 | 4th | - | - | 188 | 44 | ||
| Arsenal FC | Premier League | 1997/98 | 32 | 12 | 12 | 4th | 2 | 0 | - | - | 46 | 16 |
| 1998/99 | 37 | 6th | 7th | 4th | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 12 | ||
| 1999/00 | 31 | 7th | 2 | 1 | 14th | 5 | - | - | 47 | 13 | ||
| total | 100 | 25th | 21st | 9 | 20th | 6th | - | - | 141 | 41 | ||
| FC Barcelona | Primera División | 2000/01 | 31 | 8th | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | 46 | 8th |
| 2001/02 | 20th | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 32 | 1 | ||
| 2002/03 | 26th | 6th | - | - | 6th | 1 | - | - | 32 | 7th | ||
| 2003/04 | 20th | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6th | 1 | - | - | 26th | 3 | ||
| total | 97 | 15th | 6th | 0 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 136 | 19th | ||
| Go Ahead Eagles | First Division | 2008/09 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 0 |
| total | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 398 | 78 | 43 | 15th | 95 | 12 | - | - | 536 | 105 | ||
Web links
- Marc Overmars in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Marc Overmars Surprises the World. netherlands.worldcupblog.org, August 13, 2008, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on May 2, 2017 .
- ^ Marc Overmars to SV Epe. Jupiler League , June 12, 2009, archived from the original on August 2, 2012 ; Retrieved May 2, 2017 (Dutch).
- ^ Ajax power struggle: Davids optional . Kicker online , November 21, 2011, accessed on May 2, 2017.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Prosinečki |
Best Young Player of the 1994 World Cup (subsequent internet vote) |
Michael Owen |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Overmars, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emst , Epe, Netherlands |