Ruud Van Nistelrooy BiographyAsk anyone to Make a list of today's top strikers in activity and I guarantee Van Nisterlooy will be amongst the first 5. He is a huge name and a player that left a mark wherever he played, but as we will see in this van Nistelrooy biography, he is a late bloomer that was very close to missing out on stardom. Let's take a look so you can understand what the heck I'm talking about.
Ruud van Nistelrooy Biography – Early Career
Starting his Professional career at FC Den Bosch, a second division Dutch team at that time, van Nistelrooy was a rather average striker that played sporadically. As he gathered more and more experience in the first squad, his coach gave a place in the team and soon enough Ruud would start improving on his game.
After 4 seasons however, he only managed to score 17 goals in 69 appearances for Den Bosch. His luck was called SC Heerenveen, who bought Ruud van Nistelrooy at the end of the 1997 season, with hopes of turning him into a quality striker. After one season at Heerenveen, he proved he can become one, scoring 13 goals in 31 matches and attracting the eyes of Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven, where the 23 year old striker moved in 1998.
Ruud van Nistelrooy Biography – PSV Eindhoven
At Eindhoven they played a totally different soccer than that at Den Bosch or Heerenveen. Here, the objective of each match was to win it and heads would roll if it happened otherwise.
It's here that van Nistelrooy learned how to play under pressure and the time with Eindhoven strengthened his winner mentality. And it was here that Ruud van Nistelrooy finally played at his maximum potential, achieving an incredible 62 goals in 67 matches, over the span of 3 full seasons played for PSV.
And like most Dutch strikers, a string of good matches in the local league brought many offers from big European clubs and Ruud finally settled for the one he got from Manchester United.
Ruud van Nistelrooy Biography – Manchester United
Looking over this Ruud van Nistelrooy biography, you'll notice that the Dutchman never had a huge leap like others have. He jumped from the second division to a mid-table team from the first division. Then from that team, he passed on to an important club from Holland, only to step up once again, signing for Manchester United, who are constantly on top of the Premier League and the European competitions they participate in.
Under the magic wand of Sir Alex Ferguson, Man U's legendary manager, Ruud van Nistelrooy was expected to be an end-of-the-line striker and top goal scorer.
Having suffered a knee injury that kept him off the pitch for the first matches at Manchester, but when he came back he came back blazing: he scored 36 goals in 45 matches in the 2001/2002 season and 44 goals in 50 matches the following season, becoming one of the most feared strikers in England and in Europe.
Unfortunately, another injury forced him on the bench for most of the 2004-2005 season, but he recovered in style in 2005-2006, becoming second-highest scorer in the Premiership. But something weird happened in the winter of 2006, as Ruud van Nistelrooy suddenly lost his spot in the first team.
Although he denied a squabble with Sir Alex Ferguson, he was benched for 6 consecutive matches, played once and scored the winning goal for Manchester, then surprisingly benched again.
Following this tense relationship with his manager and his squad, Ruud van Nistelrooy decided to accept the offer from Real Madrid and get a fresh new start.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy All Goals 06-07 In La Liga
Known as a rather difficult personality, having squabbles with Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester and Van Basten at the Dutch national side, his move to Real was assumed to create more problems at the team than help them out. But the new Real manager, Fabio Capello is known for his iron fist discipline and Ruud seems to have quieted down and is now focusing on his game.
It seems the move at Real did him good, as he is now a certainty in the Galacticos' starting line-up and he currently has a goal tally of 25, in 37 matches played for his club.
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