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Marco Van Basten

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  Marco Van Basten made his debut for Ajax in the 1982 Dutch League Championship by coming in as a sub for Johan Cruyff and scoring a goal. Two years later he was a starter for the Amsterdam club and scored 28 goals in 26 games. In that same season he made his debut for the Dutch National team. The following season crowned him as the greatest European attacker, scoring 37 goals in 26 games and winning the "Golden Boot".

  After an entire winter of negotiations, Berlusconi managed to wrest Van Basten from the clutches of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Van Basten left Holland having scored 127 goals in 129 games, and won 3 league titles and 1 Cup Winners Cup. He makes his debut at San Siro in 1987, but in his first year he only makes a few appearances for the red-and-black due to an injury that keeps him from playing most of the season.

  In the following season Van Basten imposes himself as the leader of the team because of his numerous goals, assists and wonderful play. His contributions to the third and fourth Champions Cups won by Milan are fundamental. He wins France Football's "Golden Ball" award three times and becomes champion of Europe with the Dutch National team in 1988. In the triumphant 1991/92 season with Milan he wins the goal-scoring title with 25 goals.

  Dribbling, ball skill, power, and precision are the qualities which have made him enter by force into the history of soccer, not only at the club level but at the international level. At the end of the 1992/93 season a prolonged injury keeps him away from the fields of play. Because of this injury, he leaves soccer for good two years later.

  Today Van Basten and his family live in Badhoevedorp, a small village outside of Utrecht.

    

No Defender could stop him except by fouling him and that's what ended his career.

Year by year
1982: Dutch Championship (Ajax)
1983: Dutch Cup (Ajax)
1984: Dutch Championship, Dutch Top scorer, Silver Shoe (Ajax)
1985: Dutch Championship, Dutch Top scorer (Ajax)
1986: Dutch Cup (Ajax)
1987: Dutch Cup, Cup Winners Cup (ECII), Dutch Top scorer (Ajax)
1988: Italian Championship, European Super Cup, European footballer of the year (AC Milan), European Championship (Holland)
1989: European Footballer of the Year, European Cup (ECI), World Club Championship (AC Milan)
1990: European Cup (ECI), European Super Cup, World Club Championship, Italian Top scorer (AC Milan)
1991: European Super Cup, World Club Championship (AC Milan)
1992: Italian Championship, World Club Championship, Italian Tops corer, European Footballer of the Year, World Player of the Year (AC Milan)
1993: Italian Championship (AC Milan)

 

Birthdate 31/10 1964
Birthplace Utrecht, Holland
Height 188
Weight -
Position Striker
Serie A Debut -


3 x Dutch Championship -
3 x Dutch Cup 1982-83, 1995-96, 1996-97
3 x Serie A Championship -
1 x Cup Winners Cup 1986-87
2 x European Cup 1988-89, 1989-90
2 x European Super Cup 1989, 1990
2 x Intercontinental Cup 1989, 1990
1 x European Championship 1988
4 x Dutch League top scorer 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87
2 x Serie A top scorer 1989-90, 1991-1992
1 x FIFA World Player of the Year 1992
3 x European Footballer of the Year 1988, 1989, 1992
2 x World Soccer Player of the Year 1988, 1992
1 x Golden Boot (European top scorer) 1985-1986


Season Club Serie Games Goals
1981-82 Ajax 1 1 1
1982-83 Ajax 1 20 9
1983-84 Ajax 1 26 28
1984-85 Ajax 1 33 22
1985-86 Ajax 1 26 37
1986-87 Ajax 1 27 31
1987-88 Milan 1 11 3
1988-89 Milan A 33 19
1989-90 Milan A 26 19
1990-91 Milan A 31 11
1991-92 Milan A 31 25
1992-93 Milan A 15 13
1992-93 Milan A - -
1992-93 Milan A - -

 

 

Van Basten and Rudd Guillet with the help of  Frank Rijkard lead A.C.Milan to History.

 

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