Ricky van Wolfswinkel
Ricky van Wolfswinkel in the jersey of Utrecht ( 2009)
Ricky van Wolfswinkel ( born January 27, 1989 in Woudenberg ) is a Dutch football player. Since the 2013/14 season, the striker is the English first division club Norwich City under contract.
Career
Association
Van Wolfswinkel has been formed in the Vitesse / AGOVV Voetbal Academie ( young merger of the associations Vitesse and AGOVV Apeldoorn). In the A- juniors he was top scorer in 2007 and received the League of Wesley Sneijder, deputizing for the KNVB, an award for this performance. On 5 April 2008, ie even during the 2007/ 08 season, he came to his debut in the Eredivisie. In the match against Sparta Rotterdam attacker in the 85th minute came in to replace Santi Kolk. In the summer preparing for the following season van Wolfswinkel been impressed and moved into the starting eleven of Arnhem. On the 3rd Round, again against Sparta Rotterdam, he then met for the first time for his club. After a good year, he was already in May 2009 that he would leave Vitesse for season 2009/10. Since the summer of 2009, he is the league rivals FC Utrecht under contract, where he signed a three -year contract. Right off the bat, van Wolfswinkel could earn a regular place. However, his real breakthrough he made then only in 2010 /11, when he was the best attacker of his team in the Eredivisie with fifteen hits. Internationally, he drew attention to himself this season after him for the national play-off matches Reach UEFA Europa League with four goals in four games. During the Euro - League season 2010/11 attackers came in twelve games (six qualifiers ) are used, where he scored eight goals. Utrecht already retired from the group stage of the tournament. Since his good performances nationally and internationally van Wolfswinkel was on the note papers of major European clubs. For the season 2011/12 Sporting Lisbon secured his services for the next five seasons .. For 2013/2014 season Ricky van Wolfswinkel changes to Norwich City
National
Van Wolfswinkel played in various junior national teams of the Dutch. He also previously been some inserts for the B-team of the Oranje.
After the 2010 World Cup called Bond coach Bert van Marwijk van Wolfswinkel for the match in Donetsk on 11 August 2010 against Ukraine for the first time in the cadre of senior team. Since the game was promptly on the World Cup final, van Marwijk had waived the player used at the World Cup. Van Wolfswinkel played a 1-1 draw from the first whistle over 70 minutes before he was replaced with the also debuting Roy Beerens.
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- Van Wolfswinkel is with Bianca Neeskens, the daughter of former Dutch international's Johan Neeskens, romantically involved.