Patrick Kluivert

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Patrick Kluivert
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Patrick Kluivert (2006)
Personnel
Surname Patrick Stephan Kluivert
birthday July 1, 1976
place of birth Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Schellingwoude Amsterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1997 Ajax Amsterdam 70 (39)
1997-1998 AC Milan 27 0(6)
1998-2004 FC Barcelona 182 (90)
2004-2005 Newcastle United 25 0(6)
2005-2006 Valencia CF 10 0(1)
2006-2007 PSV Eindhoven 16 0(3)
2007-2008 Lille OSC 13 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2004 Netherlands 79 (40)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2010-2011 NEC Nijmegen (Assistant Trainer)
2011-2013 Jong FC Twente
2012-2014 Netherlands (assistant coach)
2015-2016 Curacao
2018-2019 Cameroon (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Patrick Stephan Kluivert (born July 1, 1976 in Amsterdam , the Netherlands ) is a former Dutch soccer player and today's coach and functionary .

Since July 2019 he has headed the FC Barcelona's youth performance center .

Player career

In the club

Patrick Kluivert was a football fanatic from an early age. When he was seven he and his father visited the Amsterdam stadium for the first time and when he was eight he dressed up as the mascot of Ajax Amsterdam . After starting out as a street footballer, he moved from his youth club Schellingwoude to Ajax Amsterdam, where he was trained as a youth player in one of the best football talent schools of the 1990s.

Kluivert's professional career began in 1994 when he was appointed to the first team by the then Ajax Amsterdam coach Louis van Gaal at the age of 17 . The transition was not difficult for the youngsters, as the junior teams trained in the same tactical direction as the professionals. In the Supercup game against Feyenoord Rotterdam , the offensive man scored his first goal. From then on, Kluivert was used as a center forward, continuing the tradition of the family, as father and mother had already been active footballers and, above all, attackers.

Given the outstanding talent of the young player, it is not surprising that he had great successes with Ajax Amsterdam from an early age. There he won the Dutch championship twice and the Dutch Supercup twice. His biggest success at Ajax Amsterdam was winning the Champions League in 1995 . Patrick Kluivert scored the goal of the day in a 1-0 win in the final over AC Milan . After winning the Champions League, he also won the European Supercup and the World Cup with Ajax . He scored 39 goals in 70 league games for Amsterdam.

In 1997 he moved to AC Milan in Serie A. There Kluivert did not manage at all and moved to FC Barcelona after only one season and six goals in 27 appearances for 20 million euros . With the Catalans, Kluivert quickly established himself under his former coach Louis van Gaal and won the championship straight away in Spain's first season. However, it was to remain the only “big” title in a personally very successful time in Barcelona. In six years Kluivert scored 90 goals in 182 games for the Catalans.

In the summer of 2004 he finally went to the Premier League for Newcastle United on a free transfer . In June 2005 he returned to Spain to Valencia CF , which was also free of charge . After only 190 minutes of play in the 2005/2006 season, Kluivert underwent knee surgery in his home country because he had been plagued by injuries since moving to Spain. In February 2006, the management of Valencia CF announced that Kluivert would have to pause for eight weeks.

Since he often made headlines in the past due to nightly escapades, there was a special clause in his contract: If the player were to stay in a discotheque or similar three times without permission after midnight, the Valencia CF club would have the right to sign the contract to dissolve the player. After only 202 minutes played in Valencia, his contract with Valencia was terminated in 2006. He then moved back to the Netherlands for PSV Eindhoven . In 2007 he won the Dutch championship again with PSV. The contract with the injured Kluivert was not renewed afterwards.

On August 30, 2007 he signed a one-year contract with the French club OSC Lille .

After 13 games and four goals for Lille OSC, Kluivert ended his active career early in July 2008. He then completed the course to become a coach betaald voetbal (professional football trainer) at the KNVB ; in December 2009 he received this coaching license.

In the national team

In the Dutch national team Kluivert was the record scorer with 40 goals from 79 appearances until October 11, 2013 and was then surpassed by Robin van Persie , who scored his international goals number 39, 40 and 41 in an 8-1 win against Hungary.

However, his performance was only crowned by a few successes. At the European Championship in 1996 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Two years later, at the 1998 World Cup in France, the Dutch team clearly improved and advanced to the semi-finals. There, however, they had to admit defeat to Brazil after the penalty shoot-out . The 1998 World Cup began with a negative experience for Kluivert. In the first round match against Belgium he was sent off. Instead, he scored one goal each in the quarter-finals against Argentina and in the semi-finals against Brazil .

The Dutch attacker set the last big highlight at the 2000 European Championship in his own country. In the quarter-final match against Yugoslavia , Kluivert shot the opponent at 6-1 with three goals almost single-handedly. With five goals he became the top scorer of the European Championships. However, the Netherlands were eliminated after a memorable semi-final match against Italy . Kluivert missed a penalty during regular time and was the only player on his team to score on penalties.

At the 2004 European Championships , he was the only Dutch outfield player in no game. The Netherlands went to the 2006 World Cup without Patrick Kluivert. The team boss Marco van Basten did without Kluivert, because he had hardly any match practice due to long injury breaks.

Career as a trainer and functionary

After Kluivert had been a member of the NEC Nijmegen coaching staff in the 2010/11 season , he took over the position of coach of the second team Jong FC Twente for the 2011/12 season at FC Twente Enschede . In the first three games under his aegis, the team has won three times, including 4-0 at Jong Ajax , scoring 15 goals from just one goal. At the end of the season, Kluivert and his team won the championship in the junior group. The decisive match, a 2-1 win on the third last match day against Jong FC Groningen , took place in the De Grolsch Veste stadium in front of 15,000 spectators.

In August 2012, Kluivert became assistant coach of the new Dutch national coach Louis van Gaal alongside Danny Blind ; he held this position until 2014 in addition to his coaching function at FC Twente. He took part as an assistant coach at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in which the Netherlands took 3rd place.

From March 2015 to June 2016, Kluivert was the national team supervisor for Curaçao , his mother's home country. In the first few weeks of its activity, he led the team into the third round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup . After the end of his time as national coach of Curaçao, Patrick Kluivert was sports director of Paris Saint-Germain . On July 25, 2019, a week after his dismissal, he was appointed assistant coach of the Cameroonian national team as the new head of the youth department of FC Barcelona .

Achievements / titles

With his clubs

Individual successes / honors

As a trainer

  • Junior round champion with Jong FC Twente : 2012

Career statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
Ajax Amsterdam Eredivisie 1994/95 25th 18th 2 1 10 2 - - 37 21st
1995/96 28 15th 2 1 8th 5 - - 38 21st
1996/97 17th 6th 1 0 4th 2 - - 22nd 8th
total 70 39 5 2 22nd 9 - - 97 50
AC Milan Series A 1997/98 27 6th 6th 3 - - - - 33 9
total 27 6th 6th 3 - - - - 33 9
FC Barcelona Primera División 1998/99 35 15th 3 1 - - - - 38 16
1999/00 26th 15th 2 1 14th 7th - - 42 23
2000/01 31 18th 5 2 12 5 - - 48 25th
2001/02 33 18th - - 17th 7th - - 50 25th
2002/03 36 16 - - 15th 5 - - 51 21st
2003/04 21st 8th 2 0 3 2 - - 26th 10
total 182 90 12 4th 61 26th - - 255 120
Newcastle United Premier League 2004/05 25th 6th 6th 2 6th 5 - - 37 13
total 25th 6th 6th 2 6th 5 - - 37 13
Valencia CF Primera División 2005/06 10 1 1 0 - - - - 11 1
total 10 1 1 0 - - - - 11 1
PSV Eindhoven Eredivisie 2006/07 16 3 2 0 3 0 - - 21st 3
total 16 3 2 0 3 0 - - 21st 3
Lille OSC Ligue 1 2007/08 13 4th 1 0 - - - - 14th 4th
total 13 4th 1 0 - - - - 14th 4th
Career total 343 149 33 11 92 40 - - 468 200

Private life

Patrick Kluivert's father is from Suriname , his mother from Curaçao . He has two older siblings and has dual citizenship (Suriname, Netherlands). Kluivert was married from 2000 to 2006, and the marriage resulted in three sons. He has another son with his current partner. His second youngest son Ruben (* 2001) currently plays with Maxim Gullit, the son of Ruud Gullit , in the youth team of AFC Amsterdam . Another son, Justin (* 1999), plays for AS Roma .

In 1996, Kluivert was given a suspended sentence for a fatal car accident that had occurred on September 9, 1995. He was also charged in 1997 with attempted rape. He is said to have raped a woman together with three of his friends. Kluivert claimed that the sex was consensual. While prosecutors believed there was too little evidence, a law enforcement attorney-general insisted that Kluivert and his friends should be heard in court, but they didn't. The public prosecutor stated that it was not clear from the alleged victim's statements that the acts were against her will. In Kluivert's favor, it was reckoned that his explanations about the course of events coincided with those of his friends. The alleged victim's lawyer pointed out that three weeks had passed between the alleged crime and the interrogation, during which the accused had enough time to coordinate their stories. However, his objection was not taken into account, and Kluivert and his friends were not charged.

Web links

Commons : Patrick Kluivert  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FC Barcelona - club profile 98/99 | Transfer market . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed on April 16, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Patrick Kluivert coach betaald voetbal , De VoetbalTrainer of 8 December 2009; accessed on May 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Patrick Kluivert trainer Jong FC Twente , club homepage of FC Twente from June 9, 2011
  4. ↑ Jong FC Twente fourth party in De Grolsch Veste , FC Twente club homepage from April 23, 2012
  5. ↑ Kluivert assistant bij Oranje (German: Kluivert assistant near Oranje), notification on the KNVB homepage of July 31, 2012 (accessed on August 1, 2012).
  6. ↑ Update: 'Kluivert wordt geen bondscoach, maar supervisor op Curaçao' , Voetbalzone.nl from March 5, 2015
  7. ↑ Kluivert met Curaçao ronde verder richting WK , de Volkskrant from April 1, 2015
  8. ↑ Kluivert: Let us really never go away. In: Algemeen Dagblad . De Persgroep Nederland, February 14, 2017, accessed July 25, 2019 (Dutch).
  9. ↑ Seedorf and Kluivert - great as players, hapless as coaches. In: Spiegel Online. Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, July 16, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  10. ^ Patrick Kluivert, nuevo director del fútbol formativo. In: FC Barcelona . FC Barcelona, ​​July 25, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Career statistics ( Memento from September 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ My son (Maxim) and his friend Ruben Kluivert are playing a football tournament in Amsterdam.
  13. ↑ Patrick Kluivert en vrienden niet vervolgd voor verkrachting. February 5, 1998. Retrieved March 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kluivert, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kluivert, Patrick Stephan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam