René Eijkelkamp
René Eijkelkamp ( born April 6, 1964 in Zwollerkerspel ) is a former Dutch football player. With FC Bruges in 1995 he was Belgian Cup winners; with PSV Eindhoven in 1996, he won the Amstel Cup and was founded in 1997 by Dutch masters. The last two years of his career was the striker for FC Schalke 04 under contract.
Club career
Deventer / Groningen
After starting out in youth his home club SV Dalfsen Eijkelkamp made his professional debut for Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie on November 8, 1981; the team from Deventer lost the match with 1:4 against Ajax Amsterdam. Five seasons, he remained in Deventer, 1986 before he moved to FC Groningen. As a regular player, he was able to achieve 47 goals in four seasons here.
Mechelen / Bruges / Eindhoven
The KV Mechelen became aware of him and got him in the Belgian First Division. With the European champions of 1988, he reached in his first season in second place in the championship and the cup final. He stayed two more seasons in Mechelen; In 1993 he moved to league rivals FC Bruges, he left two years later as a Belgian Cup winners, to go back to his home country. At PSV Eindhoven he wore in his first season with nine goals to reach the second place in the Eredivisie and won with the club at the KNVB Cup and the Supercup. In the following season he was with PSV Dutch masters and again Supercup winner before he went to the 1997/98 season in the German Bundesliga FC Schalke 04.
FC Schalke 04
The Bundesliga club undertook Eijkelkamp after the UEFA Cup victory in 1997 as a replacement for his injured compatriot Youri Mulder. His start at Schalke he was on 1 August 1997 in Park Stadium in a 2-1 victory against Bayer Leverkusen. On his first goal in the royal blue jersey, the fans had to wait a few more weeks - but then it was on 30 September 1997 equal to a double: in the UEFA Cup game at Hajduk Split, he scored in the 68th minute mark in the equalizer to 2:2 and five minutes later the winning goal. On November 18, 1997, he then met for the first time in the Bundesliga; despite its 1-0 lead gate lost the miners in Bremen 1-2.
The lanky striker " enthusiastic on the pitch by his own movements. Series, he was unorthodox contortions his opponent followed up and marked beautiful goals. " He continued to live in his Schalke time on his farm near Zwolle and chauffeur drove him from his brother Harold and a half hours for training in Gelsenkirchen and back. He became a crowd favorite at Schalke. But in his second season made him - after 17 years in professional football - his left Achilles tendon hard to create. After five goals in 15 games in the first round was not to think of football games; soon became clear that the career was over. Once again, the penultimate matchday of the season in their last home game, he was allowed to run up against Eintracht Frankfurt; 63 minutes in his countryman Huub Stevens for Hami Mandıralı joined him.
National
On November 16, 1988 Eijkelkamp made his first game for the Dutch national team. In Rome Oranje lost 0-1 against Italy. His last six appearances for the Oranje was almost seven years later; September 6, 1995, he was in De Kuip, replaced with Belarus in the 65th minute against the later protecting the 1-0 victory gate, Youri Mulder.
After the active time
In 2002 he became an assistant coach at Go Ahead Eagles. In 2004 he went to the same function to PSV Eindhoven, where he served as the successor of Erwin Koeman together with Fred Rutten as Cotrainer of Guus Hiddink. In the summer of 2006 Eijkelkamp went with Rutten to FC Twente Enschede after. After a year he resigned to work together with his brother as a consultant for a professional footballer. From the end of July 2008, he was back at FC Schalke 04 active as an individual trainer. For the 2009/10 season he returned to PSV Eindhoven, where he works again as an assistant coach Fred Rutten's. At Euro 2012 he will serve as a striker coach of the national team.