Mark van Bommel
Mark van Bommel 2010
Mark Peter Gertrude Andreas van Bommel ( born April 22, 1977 in Maasbracht, Netherlands ) is a former Dutch football player.
Career
Clubs
Van Bommel started his professional career at Fortuna Sittard, with which he as a master of the 2nd League rose in 1995 in the Eredivisie and developed into one of the best midfielders. In 1999 he moved to PSV Eindhoven and won four titles in six seasons. 2005 promoted FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund at the team captain who achieve through consistent and good and with the ability of the second row doors, drew attention as one of the highest-scoring midfielder in coming. FC Barcelona won the race for himself and obliged the former national player. On his arrival in Barcelona, he asked the journalists to conduct interviews with him in Spanish so that he could learn the language as quickly as possible.
For the season 2006/ 07 he moved to a one-year season with the Catalans, with which he had won the Spanish championship and the Champions League, FC Bayern Munich, where he was awarded a three -year contract. The release was, according to manager of Bayern, Uli Hoeness, six million euros. His debut for Bayern Munich he gave on September 9 in the DFB Cup match against FC St. Pauli. His Bundesliga debut, he played on 16 September 2006 ( Round 4 ) at a 1:2 defeat at Arminia Bielefeld. In this away game in the sixth minute he scored the opening goal to make it 1-0 and his first goal for Bayern.
On 9 August 2008, he coach Jürgen Klinsmann appointed as successor to Oliver Kahn as captain of Bayern Munich. Thus he became the first foreign player who wore permanent captaincy with the German record champions. Even under coach van Gaal in 2009 he remained a captain. With the statement " My captain is always playing " him a regular place was assured. With Bayern he won the 2008 and 2010 double in German championship and DFB Cup. He also led his 2010 team to the finals of the Champions League, but which has been lost to Inter Milan.
After the relationship between van Bommel and coach van Gaal became worse and his regular place was in danger, van Bommel announced the summer of 2011 to contract early, in agreement with Bayern Munich and changed on 25 January 2011 to the Italian first division club AC Milan. A day later, he made his debut in a 2-1 victory in the quarter- finals of the Coppa Italia against Sampdoria for the AC. His debut (Matchday 22 ) in a 2-0 win at Catania on January 29, 2011 in Serie A ended already after 54 minutes, as he was referred to the yellow card of the game field. With the Milanese he won the championship and on August 6 in Beijing the Supercup with a 2-1 victory over Inter Milan.
After his contract with AC Milan had not been extended, van Bommel returned in the summer 2012 back to PSV Eindhoven, where he signed a valid contract until 30 June 2013. For Eindhoven he played in the jersey with the number 6 back with the PSV he lost the Dutch Cup final on May 9, 2013. On the final day of the season 2012/13 van Bommel saw the second yellow card and announced after the game end of his career. On July 19, 2013 his final game took place in Eindhoven, the international football stars and former teammates attended by. Van Bommel said goodbye to the active football with the score back to 3:4 final score in the 77th minute, his last goal in his career.
National
His debut in the senior national team of his country was van Bommel on 7 October 2000 in a 4-0 victory over Cyprus. Since the Oranje failed to qualify for the World Cup in 2002 and a hamstring injury forced him to cancel shortly before the 2004 European Championships in Portugal, he had to wait long for a big tournament. The 2006 World Cup in Germany was then van Bommel's first major tournament. During qualification van Bommel came in twelve games only six times used because the Dutch coach Marco van Basten was dissatisfied with his performance. Although the relationship between coaches and players spoke against a nomination, calling him van Basten in the Dutch squad. In the final round he came in three of four games to use.
After the World Cup van Bommel was no longer considered against Luxembourg and Belarus for the two qualifying matches for Euro 2008. The appeal for the game against Bulgaria, he refused with the words " no longer under Marco van Basten to play for the Netherlands want to " ex.
After the Euro 2008 was Bert van Marwijk new Bondscoach to want to play what van Bommel his interest again for the national team with the words " I have always said that I want to go back when Marco van Basten is gone. Now he is gone, and coincidentally, my father is also the new Bond coach. If he needs me, I am there. " Expressed.
In August 2008, nominated Bert van Marwijk his son Mark van Bommel for a test match against Russia. Then he ran for the Oranje on seven of the eight qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup, scoring in the away matches in Norway and Iceland each hit.
Van Bommel was also in the squad for the World Cup finals tournament in 2010 in South Africa. With the Netherlands, he reached for the first time in 32 years the World Cup final, which, however, was lost on July 11, 2010, 0-1 against European champions Spain.
After his return van Bommel became a regular player and a mainstay in the national team. Before the start of qualifying for the 2012 European van Bommel was named as the new captain of Oranje. He thus came over from Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who held this office before up to end of his career.
Following the departure of the Netherlands at Euro 2012, he finished 20 June 2012 his international career.
Achievements
National
- Second in the World Cup 2010
Clubs
- PSV Eindhoven Dutch Champion 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005
- Dutch Cup winners 2005
- Dutch Cup finalists in 2013
- Dutch Supercup winner 2000, 2001 and 2003
- Champions League winners in 2006
- Spanish Champion 2006
- Spanish Supercup Winner 2005 and 2006
- Champions League finalists 2010
- German Champion 2008, 2010
- DFB Cup winners 2008, 2010
- DFL - League Cup winners 2007
- Italian Champion 2011
- Italian Supercup Winner 2011
Awards
- Football Talent of the Year of the Netherlands in 1999
- Footballer of the Year of the Netherlands 2001, 2005
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Mark van Bommel was due to Unsportsmanlike conduct and assault during his time at Bayern Munich in the repeated criticism. In February 2007, he was banned for a provocative gesture towards the fans of Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League for a game on probation. In March 2007, van Bommel tried misconduct Pavel Pardo VfB Stuttgart to meet with his elbow, but what he failed. Although there were massive protests and criticism in the media, van Bommel was acquitted by the DFB Control. In July of that year, van Bommel pinched during a League Cup match his opponent Fernando Meira in the genitals. Subsequent investigations of the DFB led to a ban of three games because of " blatant misconduct sport ". In February 2008, van Bommel put his elbow against Rafael van der Vaart from Hamburger SV and received in the same game due to a provocation towards the referee, the yellow- red card. Furthermore, additional investigations were launched because of obscene gestures towards the referee. In April 2008, van Bommel was placed against VfL Bochum already after 27 minutes of play due to repeated tackle yellow card from the square. In August 2008, van Bommel was sent off in a Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund because of elbow insert against Tamas Hajnal with yellow- red card.
Ottmar Hitzfeld, longtime coach of FC Bayern Munich, coined in reference to the positively connoted term van Bommel Aggressive leader and defended his repeated Unsportsmanlike conduct on the court. From media van Bommel was, however, attacked hard again because of his style of play. So he was and is, for example, referred to as " bullies " and " Rambo".
Others
2010 was honored with a speech Price van Bommel of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ( VU). The VU language center examined the speech habits of 26 Dutch internationals in their native language. Van Bommel argue best in the opinion of linguists. His rhetoric was well developed, he also do not use the phrases of footballers language. Once van Bommel come from the court, he analyzed the game of course. Van Bommel's award is for a tribute to coach van Gaal already the second language rate for employees of the FC Bayern Munich.
Private
He is the daughter of football coach Bert van Marwijk, Andra, married and has three children.