Ruud Geels

Ruud Geels
Personnel
Surname	Geertruida Maria Geels
birthday	July 28, 1948
place of birth	Haarlem , the  Netherlands
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	RKVV DSS
	RKSV Onze cells
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1966	Stormbirds Telstar	8 (5)
1966-1970	Feyenoord Rotterdam	89 (46)
1970-1972	Go Ahead Eagles Deventer	62 (35)
1972-1974	Club Bruges	53 (28)
1974-1988	Ajax Amsterdam	131 (123)
1978-1979	RSC Anderlecht	28 (25)
1979-1981	Sparta Rotterdam	48 (35)
1981-1982	PSV Eindhoven	32 (15)
1982-1984	NAC Breda	22 (6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Netherlands	20 (11)
1 Only league games are given.

Geertruida Maria Geels (pronunciation: [ ˈɣeːr.ˌtrœy̯.da ˈmaː.ria ˈɣeːls ]) called Ruud (pronunciation: [ ˈryt ]) (born July 28, 1948 ) is a former Dutch football player .

Career

society

Geels began his career in the youth teams of RKVV DSS and RKSV Onze Gezellen. In 1964 he came to Stormvogels Telstar and has already scored five goals in just eight games. In 1966 he moved to the major Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam. In 1969, Geels won the Dutch double (cup and championship) in Rotterdam . In the 1969/70 European Champion Clubs' Cup , he played four games with six goals. In the final on May 6, 1970 in Milan against Celtic Glasgow - coach Ernst Happel's team won 2-1 goals in extra time - he was not used. After the success with Feyenoord he went to the Go Ahead Eagles from Deventer . After two years with the Adler, he tried his luck in Belgium at Club Bruges . 1973 Geels became Belgian champion. He returned to his home country a year later and was under contract with Ajax Amsterdam for four years. He became champion in the Netherlands for the second time in 1977. In 1978 he moved back to Belgium and was under contract with RSC Anderlecht for a year. He then played for two years with Sparta Rotterdam, one year with PSV Eindhoven and at the end of his career he was under contract with NAC Breda for two more years. He was the top scorer in the Dutch top division from 1975 to 1978 and was able to win this title for the fifth time in 1981. From 1965/66 to 1983/84, Geels scored 318 goals in 483 league games.

National team

Internationally, he played 20 times for the Netherlands and scored eleven goals. He made his debut in the "Oranje" team at the international match on March 27, 1974 in Rotterdam against Austria. At the 1974 World Cup in Germany , he was a member of the squad, but was not used. He also took part in the 1976 European Championship in Yugoslavia , where he successfully netted 3-2 in the game for third place. At the 1978 World Cup in Argentina - "Ruud" had won the top scorer's crown four times in a row from 1975 to 1978 - he was not a member of the squad. With his 20th appearance in the 3-0 win on October 14, 1981 in Rotterdam against Belgium, he said goodbye to the national team.

successes

• 2 × Dutch champion (1969, 1977)
• 1 × Dutch Cup Winner (1969)
• 1 × Belgian champion (1973)
• 5 × top scorer in the Eredivisie (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981)
• 3 × Footballer of the Year from the Netherlands (1975, 1976, 1977)

After the playing career

Ruud Geels returned to his first first division club in Velsen in the early 1990s and became a manager.

literature

• Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 .
• Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 .
• 211 world's top first division goal scorers of the century, IFFHS, Wiesbaden, 1998