Anyone give me a little bit of info on this player please? meant to be signing for Celtic! is he any good?
2006-08-21 01:25:03 · 4 answers · asked by Kerry_cfc 5 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink (born November 7, 1978 in Oldenzaal) is a Dutch football player who currently plays for PSV Eindhoven. He plays in the position of striker. Standing at 191 cm and weighing 92 kg, he is an intimidating force inside the penalty area.
He was a prolific goalscorer for FC Twente where he scored 59 league goals in five seasons. In the Summer of 2001 he was signed up by PSV and quickly became accustomed to finding the net there too, scoring 22 goals in his first season. However, his second and third seasons at PSV proved rather disappointing, scoring only 8 and 12 goals respectively. At the end of the 2003-2004 season, he was even told he could leave the club. However, he stayed on, and in 2004-2005 Vennegoor of Hesselink was in excellent form, scoring 19 goals in 28 matches. This could have been more had he not received an injury at the latter stages of the season. He also earned a re-call to the Dutch national team in March 2005 after an absence of four and a half years.
He made his debut for the Dutch national team on 11 October 2000 against Portugal. He currently has 8 caps to his name.
He is likely to sign for Scottish champions Celtic for a fee of 6.5 million euros.Porto fc and Bolton wanderers were also intrested but the scottish side remain the favourites.
His name - the longest in Dutch football - derives from his great-grandmother being the last of the Hesselink family, so when she married his great-grandfather, a Vennegoor, it was decided that their descendants would bear the dual surname. The marriage brought about the merger of two farms in the Enschede region. 'Of' in Dutch means 'or' in English.
2006-08-21 02:37:38 · answer #1 · answered by vepc2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink develop into subsequently named because of the fact, earlier interior the seventeenth century, 2 farming families interior the Enschede element of Holland intermarried. the two the Vennegoor and Hesselink names carried equivalent social weight, and so - fairly than elect between them - they chosen to apply the two.
2016-12-11 12:30:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he will do ok in the scots prem, europe he will do ok, so overall he is a good signing and one i reckon will pick up where king henrik left, his name comes from the marraige of two families way back in the 1800's and has stuck with them ever since...
2006-08-21 01:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey was one off the best PSV Eindhoven players of the last years
2006-08-21 09:12:33 · answer #4 · answered by EL President 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋