Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink | |
| Date of birth | November 7 1978 | |
| Place of birth | Oldenzaal, Netherlands | |
| Height | m () | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Celtic | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1996-2001 2001-2006 2006- |
FC Twente PSV Eindhoven Celtic |
142 (59) 157 (73) 29 (18) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2000- | Netherlands | 13 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink (Pronounced Yan Fenni-gore off Hessylink) (born November 7, 1978 in Oldenzaal) is a Dutch football player who currently plays for Scottish Premier League club Celtic. He plays in the position of striker. He stands at 191 cm and weighs 92 kg.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored 59 league goals for FC Twente over the course of five seasons. In the summer of 2001 he was signed up by PSV Eindhoven and quickly became accustomed to finding the net there too, scoring 22 goals in his first season.
However his second and third seasons at PSV proved less fruitful, since he scored only 8 and 12 goals respectively. At the end of the 2003-04 season, he was told he could leave the club. However he stayed on, and in 2004-05, Vennegoor of Hesselink was in excellent form, scoring 19 goals in 28 matches. He also earned a re-call to the Dutch national team in March 2005 after an absence of four and a half years. He made his debut for the Dutch national team on 11 October 2000 against Portugal. He has played in the 2006 World Cup making a late appearance as a substitute in the second-round game against Portugal. Currently Vennegoor of Hesselink is a regular call-up for the national team and plays the role as reserve striker.
On August 24, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink left PSV and signed a 3 year deal with Scottish champions Celtic, with the option of a further year, for a fee of around £3.4m [1]. He scored on his debut after coming on as a substitute against Hibernian. In his next game, against Aberdeen, he scored the winner from outside the box in a 1-0 win. He then scored his first European goal for Celtic in the Champions League against Manchester United. Injuries have subsequently curtailed his appearances but he has recently come onto some form, scoring his first hat-trick for the Bhoys against St. Mirren and a last minute winner against Inverness Caledonian Thistle, before getting sent off with a second booking, after leaving the field of play to celebrate with the Celtic fans.
He also scored the opening goal on Sunday 22nd April 2007 against Kilmarnock, the game in which Celtic retained the Scottish Premier League for the second year running. Shunsuke Nakamura scored a last minute winner in the game from a free kick after Colin Nish equalised for Kilmarnock.
Name
His name - one of the longest in European football - derives from the 17th century, when two farming families in the Enschede area of the Netherlands intermarried. Both the Vennegoor and Hesselink names carried equal social weight, and so - rather than choose between them - they chose to use both. "Of" in Dutch translates to "or" in English, which would mean that a strict translation of his name would read 'Jan Vennegoor or Hesselink'.[2] This could be considered as having the same effect as the double-barrelling of English surnames.
References
- ^ "Dutch striker signs up for Celtic", The BBC, 24-8-2006.
- ^ "Lost and found in the international wilderness", The Guardian, 30-8-2006.
External links
- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink career stats at Soccerbase
- Official homepage
- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink profile from Carling
| Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by John Bosman Jan van Halst Antti Sumiala |
FC Twente Topscorer 1998 – 2001 |
Succeeded by Jack de Gier |
| Netherlands squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup | |
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| 1 van der Sar • 2 Jaliens •
3 Boulahrouz • 4 Mathijsen • 5 van Bronckhorst • 6 Landzaat • 7 Kuyt •
8 Cocu • 9 van Nistelrooy • 10 van der Vaart • 11 Robben • 12 Kromkamp •
13 Ooijer • 14 Heitinga • 15 de Cler •
16 Maduro • 17 van Persie • 18 van Bommel • 19 Vennegoor of Hesselink • 20 Sneijder • 21 Babel •
22 Timmer • 23 Stekelenburg • Coach: van Basten |
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| Celtic F.C. – current squad |
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1 Boruc • 3 Naylor • 5 Caldwell • 6 Baldé • 7 Żurawski • 8 S. Brown • 10 Vennegoor of Hesselink • 11 Hartley • 12 Wilson • 14 Riordan • 15 Sno • 17 Pressley • 18 Donati • 20 Jarošík • 21 M. Brown • 24 Perrier-Doumbé • 25 Nakamura • 26 Sheridan • 27 McDonald • 33 Killen • 41 Kennedy • 44 McManus • 45 O'Brien • 46 McGeady • 47 McGovern • 48 O'Dea • 49 Cuthbert • 55 McGowan • 56 Bjarnason • Manager: Strachan |
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