Bryan Roy
Bryan Roy ( born February 12, 1970 in Amsterdam) is a former football player from the Netherlands. He played for Ajax Amsterdam, U.S. Foggia, Nottingham Forest, Hertha BSC and NAC Breda.
Playing career
Ajax Amsterdam
Bryan Roy started his playing career in 1987 with Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam. Coach Leo Beenhakker sat on the young up and coming player as Roy was already common in his first season for use. 1989/90 he reached with his team winning the Dutch championship. For the 1991/92 season Louis van Gaal took over as coach and led Ajax in his first season to victory in the UEFA Cup in 1991/92. Amsterdam had, inter alia, on the way to the final Rot-Weiß Erfurt, CA Osasuna and Genoa off. In the final of Torino waited. The first leg ended 2-2 in Turin and 0-0 in the return leg in Amsterdam Ajax made the triumph perfect. Roy celebrated the greatest success of his career together with players like Danny Blind, Aron Winter and Dennis Bergkamp. After the season he moved to the Italian Serie A trained by Zdenek Zeman club U.S. Foggia.
U.S. Foggia
The Italian Serie A enticed at this time to the best players in the world. Even U.S. Foggia wanted to decorate with international top players and, therefore, obliged the young Dutch national team. In Serie A 1992/93 the team reached the had risen only in the penultimate year 13th place the following season led to a slight improvement and a ninth place in the table. Bryan Roy get 12 league goals and he thus became top scorer of his team. Through his good services he had also the English club Nottingham Forest drew attention to himself, which had just risen again in the Premier League. Roy moved for 2,900,000 pounds to the island.
Nottingham Forest
Forest had managed the direct re-emergence after relegation in 1992/93. Also in the Premier League 1994 /95, the team was able to shine with good benefits. Behind Master Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United, the team of Vice Nottingham reached the third place. Roy scored 13 goals in his first year and was so behind Stan Collymore ( 22 league goals) second best scorer of his team. Collymore joined at the end of the season for 8.5 million pounds for Liverpool and thus leaving a large gap. 1995/96 reached Forest in the League only 9th place, managed for the UEFA Cup in 1995/96 to the quarter- finals. However, Roy ( 25 league games / 8 goals) could not repeat his success in 1992, as Forest fell significantly in two games against FC Bayern Munich and retired. More disappointing was the Premier League 1996 / 97th Nottingham's players were much guilty and the club was relegated at the end of the season as Table from. Roy (8 games / 3 goals) moved to 1997/ 98 1.5 million pounds for the Bundesliga promoted Hertha BSC.
Hertha BSC
In his first season with Berliners the Movers was ranked 11 and was able to hold the class. The 1998/99 season to lead the team even higher spheres. Hertha landed at the end of the season in third place and moved to the UEFA Champions League is a 1999/2000. In the following season, the Berlin qualified for the UEFA Cup. Presented as the supposed Star Shopping Hertha in the summer of 1997, but was never able to convince the 32-fold Dutch international during his time with the Berliners. After a disappointing first season with 22 missions and only one gate, he was in his second season at the Berlin Hertha hardly taken into account. Only seven missions without gate stood in the 1998/ 99 in its balance sheet. His reservists role in Hertha he was not going well in his last year and changed before the end of his contract in the winter break of the season 2000/2001 the Dutch first division club NAC Breda, where he ended his career in January 2002.
Netherlands national team
Roy played between September 1989 and March 1995 32 times for the Dutch national team, where he scored 9 goals. He participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup ( without insert), the European Championships in 1992 and the 1994 World Cup in part.
Title
- Dutch Champion 1990
- UEFA Cup winners 1992