Roy Makaay
Roy Makaay (2007)
Rudolphus Anton " Roy " Makaay ( born March 9, 1975 in Wijchen ) is a former Dutch football player.
Career
Clubs
In 1993, Roy Makaay than 18 -year-old made his professional debut in the Dutch Eredivisie. For Vitesse Arnhem he played until 1997 109 games in the championship and was 42 times successfully. He then moved to Spain to CD Tenerife, for which he División 72 games completed in the Primera, scoring 21 goals. After two seasons, he moved to Deportivo La Coruna, for he came into the league for the use of 130 times, scoring 79 goals, in 2000 Spanish Champion and 2001 championship runner-up was.
In 2003 he was Spanish top scorer and won the Golden Shoe as the most successful UEFA European goalscorer.
After 2002/ 03 FC Bayern Munich scored three goals in the second leg and scored the winning goal in the first leg of the first group stage of the Champions League, the Munich club became aware of him. The Bayern in the Bundesliga he joined in 2003/ 04 for the then club record fee of internal 18.7 million euros, which increased by additional payment of premiums to 19.7 million euros. For Bayern, he completed 129 league games, scoring 78 goals, prepared 26 goals before and won twice each of the DFB Cup and the German Cup. On 7 March 2007, he scored in the game against Real Madrid in 10.03 seconds 1-0 to Bayern Munich - the fastest goal in the history of the UEFA Champions League.
For the 2007 /08 season Roy Makaay played back in the Netherlands for the first division club Feyenoord Rotterdam. There, he scored in his first season with 13 goals in 28 games ( 7 Assists ). In the next season he scored 16 goals with 4 assists in 31 games.
In April 2010 Makaay announced that he would end his professional football career. On the final day of the season he wore 6-2 victory over Feyenoord Heerenveen with three goals for the collection of the club in the UEFA Europa League. In the Cup final second leg on May 6 against Ajax Amsterdam, he made his last game as an active soccer player. Makaay remained the club for which he ran aground in 2007, as a youth coach.
National
On October 5, 1996 Makaay debuted in the national team of his country, for whom he played 43 international matches and scored six goals. With the Elftal he took part in the 2000 European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as the 2004 European Championship in Portugal. For the U- 21 team of the " Oranje ", he met a total of 15 times and occupied together with Arnold Bruggink second place in the all-time scorers list behind Klaas -Jan Huntelaar. For the World Cup 2006 Makaay was not nominated because it was brought forward in the national Ruud van Nistelrooy as a center forward.
For the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Makaay was appointed as one of three senior players for the selection of his country of choice coach Foppe de Haan. The Oranje difference in the quarterfinals after a 1:2 after extra time against Argentina from. Makaay led in this tournament the team as a captain on the field.
Achievements
- German Champion (2): 2005, 2006
- DFB Cup winners (2): 2005, 2006
- League Cup winners: 2004
- Spanish Champion: 2000
- Spanish Cup winner: 2002
- Spanish Supercup winner (2): 2000, 2002
- Dutch Cup winner: 2008
Awards
- Golden Shoe UEFA ( Europe's Top Scorer 2002/ 03 with 29 goals )
- Pichichi ( top scorer ) La Liga 2002/ 03
- Player of the Month March 2004 ( in the Bundesliga )
- Scorer of the Month May 2005 January 2006
Trivia
Makaay usually played as a center forward and was also called " the phantom " because he needed per scoring statistically less than four shots and often barely made its appearance to its Torerfolge. Probably for this reason, he had the trophy, which he received as a Spanish top scorer in 2003, multiplied by a jeweler, to thank him for all his teammates Deportivo de La Coruña.