Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst ( Rotterdam , February 5 1975 ) is a Dutch former footballer . He has won several awards such as the Champions League ,Supercopa , FA Cup and several national championships. Van Bronckhorst played for RKC Waalwijk , Feyenoord , Glasgow Rangers , Arsenal and FC Barcelona . After record international Edwin van der Sar stopped at Orange Giovanni was the captain of the Dutch national football team . Van Bronckhorst was mainly as a left back or in a central defensive role in midfield or left. After the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Van Bronckhorst has stopped as a professional footballer.

After his last game for Feyenoord against Real Mallorca, he was appointed Feyenoord for life.

Content

 * 1 Playing Career
 * 1.1 Feyenoord
 * 1.2 Glasgow Rangers
 * 1.3 Arsenal FC
 * 1.4 FC Barcelona
 * 1.5 Feyenoord
 * 1.6 Interland Career
 * 1.7 Club Statistics
 * 1.8 Honour Roll Player
 * 2 Career Coach
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 Other facts
 * 5 See also
 * 6 External link

Feyenoord [ edit ]
Van Bronckhorst started his professional career at Feyenoord, where he, however, was immediately loaned out to RKC Waalwijk . After returning to Feyenoord won the KNVB Cup and he left in the summer of 1998 to the Scottish Glasgow Rangers .

Glasgow Rangers [ edit ]
In his first season with the Rangers Van Bronckhorst won the championship cup winner and winner of the League Cup. In his second season he won three prizes. In his third and final season for the Rangers won Van Bronckhorst nothing.

Arsenal FC [ edit ]
Due to its success in the Glasgow Rangers he could go to Arsenal FC, ​​where then include Dennis Bergkamp came out. He became champions and FA Cup winner, but despite winning these two awards he never really broke through.

FC Barcelona [ edit ]
He left in the 2003/04 season at FC Barcelona under coach Frank Rijkaard, where he met a number of Dutch players. In the 2004/05 season he was still only Dutchman for Barça, until Mark van Bommel him a year later the company was holding. In Barcelona, ​​he was one of the solid defenders in the champion team of Frank Rijkaard . He won the Spanish title with Barcelona twice, twice the Supercopa and once the Champions League . He was in Barcelona very much appreciated, because he continues to combine his attacking intentions knew very well with very solid defensively.

Feyenoord [ edit ]
In the summer of 2007 he came back to his childhood sweetheart Feyenoord . His return was hailed by supporters. Van Bronckhorst even interrupted his holiday to attend the first training. He also expressed the desire to receive no profit contributions. Van Bronckhorst was chosen by coach Van Marwijk to captain, the role he took over fromTheo Lucius . In his first season he won with Feyenoord the KNVB Cup .

[Interland Career edit ]
In 1997, Van Bronckhorst called in sports Veronica's Soccer Simon Tahamata, who played from 1984 to 1987 at Feyenoord and was also Moluccan descent, as his role model.

Van Bronckhorst reached with the Dutch national team to the final of the 2010 World Cup by scoring in the 1-0 semi-final which ended in a 3-2 victory over Uruguay . This goal is unofficially voted 'most beautiful goal' of that World Cup. Van Bronckhorst was at this World Cup captain and played his sixth major tournament (after '98, '00, '04, '06 and '08). His last international match he played against Spain in the World Cup final in 2010, which was lost 0-1. Van Bronckhorst was replaced in the 105th minute by Edson Braafheid . Van Bronckhorst played 106 games and thereby finalized the stage with Edwin van der Sar (130 caps) and Frank de Boer (113 caps). After the World Cup 2010 Van Bronckhorst and were Bert van Marwijk named Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau [1] .

Van Bronckhorst was on May 12, 2010 announced after the 2010 World Cup to quit professional football. His last game he played in De Kuip against Spanish Real Mallorca . This was his farewell match. Mario Been, the former Feyenoord coach, tried in vain to persuade him to go on any longer.

Honors as a player [ edit ]
Giovanni van Bronckhorst

[Trainer Career edit ]
After the summer of 2010, Van Bronckhorst has launched the program "Trainer 1 'and he assisted coach Cor Pot at the National Junior Team . In August 2011 he became a full-time assistant coach Ronald Koemanat Feyenoord. From the 2012-13 season combines Van Bronckhorst his work at Feyenoord 1 with coaching Jong Feyenoord / Excelsior . On March 23, 2015 it was announced that Van Bronckhorst from the 2015-2016 season, Fred Rutten will succeed as head coach of Feyenoord. [2]

[Trivia Edit ]

 * In the time that he joined FC Barcelona played his nickname was "Gio".
 * He is known to the public as the player who never played less than 90 minutes (not only because he never went to the side, but also because he's "fighting" never gave up).
 * He is by fellow footballer Messi ( FC Barcelona ) named the best left back in the world.
 * In November 2011 he received an award from the UEFA to play at least 100 matches. [3]

Other facts [ edit ]

 * He has been working since September 2010 as a football analyst for SkySports.
 * In 2012 he, along with his wife Marieke van Bronckhorst, set the school trajectory SV GIO. Children from grades 7 and 8 of primary school come one afternoon a week, for 20 weeks, to location to get support in the field of education and sports.