Dutch association football musician

Dirk Jan Klaas “ Klaas-Jan “ Huntelaar ( dutch pronunciation : [ ˌklaːˌʃɑn ˈɦʏntəlaːr ] ( ) ; [ 2 ] born 12 August 1983 ) is a retire Dutch professional football player who played as a striker. Huntelaar was described as a “ prolific striker ” [ 3 ] with a “ brilliant first touch ” [ 4 ] and was compared in manner to players such as Marco van Basten [ 5 ] and Ruud vanguard Nistelrooy. [ 6 ] In 2009, early Netherlands national team director Louis vanguard Gaal was quoted saying about the actor, “ in the penalty area, he is the best actor in the world, bar none. ” [ 7 ]

Huntelaar played for PSV Eindhoven, De Graafschap, AGOVV Apeldoorn, Heerenveen, Ajax, Real Madrid and Milan, [ 8 ] before joining Schalke 04 in August 2010, for whom he was the circus tent goalscorer in the 2011–12 Bundesliga with 29 league goals. [ 9 ] Huntelaar is besides Schalke ‘s second highest goalscorer of all prison term, behind Klaus Fischer. [ 10 ] Huntelaar was named Dutch Football Talent of the year and Ajax “ Player of the year ” in 2006, and was a separate of the dutch side that won the 2006 UEFA U-21 Championship where he became the tournament ‘s leave goalscorer and received the player of the tournament award. He was besides named as one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. He is the all-time top scorekeeper of the Netherlands U-21 national team with 18 goals in 23 appearances. [ 7 ]

early life [edit ]

Huntelaar was born in Voor-Drempt, a village in the Achterhoek region of Netherlands, but moved to Hummelo when he was six weeks old. [ 11 ] He lived with parents Dirk-Jan and Maud Huntelaar, and his two brothers Niek and Jelle. [ 11 ] At the long time of five, Huntelaar, along with his two brothers, joined the local football team VV H. en K., where he played for the future six years. [ 11 ] He was scouted as a youth talent during this period by Go Ahead Eagles but the distance required to travel to the team ‘s base in Deventer prevented him from joining the clubhouse. [ 11 ] soon after, he was scouted by De Graafschap and on 6 April 1994 he signed his foremost young contract, aged 10. [ 11 ] During his beginning two years with De Graafschap, Huntelaar played in versatile positions including left fly, attacking midfield, left back, and even goalkeeper ; only in his third year was he deployed as a striker. [ 11 ] In the 1997–98 season, the 14-year-old Huntelaar was the chief striker for the C-team at De Graafschap and scored 33 goals in 20 matches. [ 11 ] The following temper saw him promoted to the B1 team, and in the 1999–2000 season he became lead scorer of the B1 league with 31 goals. [ 11 ] His goalscoring abilities drew the attention of PSV Eindhoven, who subsequently signed him in June 2000. [ 11 ]

Club career [edit ]

PSV Eindhoven [edit ]

In his first season at PSV Eindhoven, Huntelaar quickly established himself as a fecund goalscorer for their A1 young teams under coach Willy van five hundred Kuijlen, [ 12 ] scoring 26 goals in 23 games to become top scorer in the youth league. [ 11 ] In his second season at PSV, Huntelaar was added to the senior police squad under coach Guus Hiddink. He made his first gear team debut on 23 November 2002 in a 0–3 away win over Roosendaal, coming on as a second-half substitute for Mateja Kežman in the 76th infinitesimal. [ 13 ] however, this turned out to be his only appearance for PSV. [ 14 ]

De Graafschap [edit ]

By the begin of 2003, it was absolved that Huntelaar ‘s way into the first team was blocked, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] consequently he was sent out on loan to his previous club De Graafschap, where his uncle was fiscal conductor. [ 17 ] He made his senior debut for De Graafschap on 8 February 2003, coming on as a substitute for Hans van de Haar against Roosendaal. [ 18 ] He made his only appearance in the starting batting order on 16 February 2003 as De Graafschap were beaten 1–5 by his future golf club Heerenveen. [ 19 ] He then made his final appearance in the team on 29 May 2003 as De Graafschap lost 2–1 to FC Zwolle, confirming their demotion from the Eredivisie. [ 20 ] In total, Huntelaar made nine Eredivisie appearances for the Super Farmers, one as a starter and eight as a stand-in, but was unable to score and De Graafschap decided not to extend his loanword. [ 21 ]

AGOVV [edit ]

At the begin of the 2003–04 season, Huntelaar was again sent out on loan, this time to newly promoted Eerste Divisie side AGOVV Apeldoorn under bus Jurrie Koolhof. [ 22 ] He made a solid depart, scoring on his debut for AGOVV against TOP Oss, [ 23 ] and then scoring a hat-trick in his second league plot against Heracles Almelo. [ 24 ] Huntelaar scored 26 goals in 35 league appearances and finished the season as the division ‘s acme goalscorer equally well as being named the Eerste Divisie ‘s Player of the Season. [ 25 ] AGOVV by and by went on to name one of the stands at their Sportpark Berg & Bos stadium the “ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar stand ” in protection to his affect at the club. [ 26 ] [ 27 ]

Heerenveen [edit ]

Huntelaar with Heerenveen At the end of his loanword at AGOVV, Huntelaar turned down the opportunity to sign a raw shrink with PSV, [ 28 ] and frisian club Heerenveen moved in to sign him. [ 29 ] Huntelaar started the 2004–05 temper by scoring on his Eredivisie debut with Heerenveen against AZ Alkmaar [ 30 ] and took his scoring reckoning to ten goals in 17 games at the winter break. At the end of the temper, Huntelaar had scored a entire of 17 goals in 31 matches, helping Heerenveen qualify for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup. In the 2005–06 season, Huntelaar continued where he had left off in his inaugural season at Heerenveen, and by the winter, he had scored 17 goals in 15 matches at which point the crown Dutch clubs began vying for his key signature. [ 31 ] [ 32 ]

ajax [edit ]

2005–06 season [edit ]

In January 2006, Huntelaar signed for Ajax, the club he had supported as a child. Heerenveen received €9 million [ 33 ] [ 34 ] plus future incentives for the player, with 15 % ( €1.35 million ) of the tip going to PSV. [ 35 ] Huntelaar made his Ajax debut after the winter break and scored his beginning goal for the team on 5 February 2006 against former club Heerenveen in a KNVB Cup tie. [ 36 ] In February, Huntelaar scored nine goals in seven matches for Ajax, including against Serie A club Inter Milan on his UEFA Champions League debut. [ 37 ] Huntelaar ended the temper as top scorer for Ajax with 16 league goals in 16 appearances despite alone joining in January, and besides finished up as the Eredivise ‘s top scorer with 33 league goals. [ 38 ] He scored a total of 44 goals in 47 appearances in all golf club competitions. Ajax finished fourth in the Eredivisie and Huntelaar featured in the Eredivisie Playoffs for Champions League reservation, scoring in consecutive matches against Feyenoord [ 39 ] [ 40 ] equally well as acting in the victory over Groningen to secure Ajax ‘s put in the following season ‘s Champions League. [ 41 ] In the KNVB Cup semi-final, Huntelaar scored a bicycle kick equalizer in injury-time against Roda JC, taking the game to extra-time. Ajax went on to win 4–1 with Huntelaar scoring another finish in the 109th infinitesimal. [ 42 ] In the final examination, against his former golf club PSV, Huntelaar scored two goals to help Ajax win the KNVB Cup 2–1. [ 43 ] Huntelaar was named Dutch Football Talent of the year and Ajax Player of the class for 2005–06. [ 44 ]

2006–07 season [edit ]

In July 2006, Huntelaar became the beginning player to score at Arsenal ‘s newly Emirates Stadium in a recommendation match for Dennis Bergkamp. [ 45 ] He was named vice-captain of Ajax for 2006–07 in his first wide season at the golf club. [ 46 ] Huntelaar scored two goals for Ajax in a Champions League qualifying match against Copenhagen to secure a 1–2 away win in the first leg, but a 0–2 home get the better of in the second leg saw them knocked out of the Champions League on aggregate. Ajax went on to play in the UEFA Cup, where Huntelaar scored seven goals in seven matches, including against Werder Bremen, who would eliminate them in the one-third polish. In the Eredivisie, Huntelaar scored 21 goals as Ajax again finished second, once more having to play in the Eredivisie Playoffs to claim a position in the Champions League. Huntelaar scored two goals in the second stage of the Playoffs semi-final against Heerenveen in a 4–1 aggregate win. [ 47 ] Ajax then beat AZ Alkmaar 4–2 on aggregate for a place in the one-third qualifying round of the Champions League. [ 48 ] In the KNVB Cup, Huntelaar scored four goals in six matches, including an counterweight in the final examination against Alkmaar which ended in a 1–1 draw after extra-time. Huntelaar scored in the punishment shoot-out decider to help Ajax retain the KNVB Cup, winning 8–7 on penalties. [ 49 ] Huntelaar scored 36 goals in 51 games in all competitions for Ajax in 2006–07 .
In 2007–08, Huntelaar partnered up front with new striking-partner Luis Suárez. however, Ajax were again knocked out of the Champions League at the qualify stage, with Huntelaar missing a penalty in the first peg against Slavia Prague. [ 50 ] Ajax were besides eliminated from the UEFA Cup by Dinamo Zagreb on aside goals, with Huntelaar ‘s two goals not adequate to secure Ajax ‘s place in the rival. [ 51 ] In the beginning Eredivisie match of the season, Huntelaar scored four goals in a 1–8 away victory over newly promoted De Graafschap. [ 52 ] Following the retirement of Jaap Stam in October 2007, Huntelaar was made irregular captain, pending the return of have midfielder Edgar Davids from injury. [ 53 ] On 6 April 2008, Huntelaar scored his hundredth goal in the Eredivise with a hat-trick in Ajax ‘s 4–1 win against De Graafschap. In the previous 25 years, only Dennis Bergkamp and Dirk Kuyt had managed that feat before their twenty-fifth birthday. [ 54 ] Huntelaar finished the season with 33 goals in 34 appearances, becoming top scorekeeper in the Eredivisie [ 55 ] and the beginning Ajax player to score 30 league goals in a season for 21 years, since Marco vanguard Basten in 1986–87. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] At the get down of the 2008–09 temper, Marco van Basten was appointed as Ajax coach and named Huntelaar permanent wave first team captain. [ 58 ] Huntelaar scored nine goals in 15 appearances in all competitions before suffering tear ankle ligaments on 9 November 2008 in a league peer against Sparta Rotterdam. [ 59 ] He would not play again for amply eight weeks former and it turned out to be his last game for Ajax. [ 60 ]

veridical Madrid [edit ]

Huntelaar playing for Real Madrid At the get down of December 2008, Real Madrid reached an agreement with Ajax to sign Huntelaar in the mid-season transfer window in January. Huntelaar joined Real Madrid in January 2009 for an initial tip thought to be worth €20 million, [ 61 ] [ 62 ] potentially rising to €27 million. Huntelaar made his debut on 4 January 2009 on his retort from injury in a La Liga home match against Villarreal. He played for 56 minutes and made four foster appearances as a substitute, [ 63 ] before scoring his first goal for the team on 15 February 2009 in a 0–4 away win at Sporting Gijón. [ 64 ] Madrid had planned to add both Huntelaar and colleague new signing Lassana Diarra to their 2008–09 Champions League team, but both players had already featured in the same season ‘s UEFA Cup for previous clubs Ajax and Portsmouth, respectively. UEFA rules would allow only one of the couple to be registered [ 65 ] [ 66 ] by 1 February 2009 and Diarra was selected to play in the competition. [ 67 ] Huntelaar went on to score eight goals in 20 appearances ( 13 starts and seven substitute appearances ) in precisely half a season at Madrid. [ 68 ] [ 69 ]

A.C. Milan [edit ]

On 6 August 2009, Huntelaar transferred to Serie A clubhouse A.C. Milan for €17.75 million, [ 70 ] signing a four-year contract. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] On 29 August, Huntelaar made his competitive league debut for Milan coming on as a submarine in the 0–4 passing to cross-city rivals Inter Milan in the Derby della Madonnina. After a decelerate begin, Huntelaar scored his first Milan goals on 29 November 2009 in a 0–2 away win at Catania, scoring twice after coming on in the 84th minute. [ 73 ] After the match, coach Leonardo stated that he would give Huntelaar more chances. however, Huntelaar only appeared as a ersatz for the adjacent few matches, and because of the capital form of teammate Marco Borriello, Huntelaar did not even appear as a stand-in identical often until Borriello ‘s injury. Huntelaar capitalized on the opportunity by scoring his second brace of the season, helping Milan to a 3–2 frustration of Udinese. When Borriello hit bad form, Huntelaar was expected to play more frequently, but Leonardo chose to play veteran Filippo Inzaghi alternatively. On 3 April, Huntelaar started the pit against Cagliari and scored from 30 meters out to stretch his finish score to seven .

Schalke 04 [edit ]

Huntelaar with Schalke On 31 August 2010, Bundesliga club Schalke 04 signed Huntelaar for a fee of €12 million. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] On 19 September, he scored his first finish for Schalke in a 1–3 home kill against regional rivals Borussia Dortmund, [ 76 ] and he added two in a Champions League group stage match against Lyon on 24 November 2010. On 21 May 2011, Huntelaar scored a brace against MSV Duisburg in the 2011 DFB-Pokal Final, securing a 5–0 win for Schalke, the club ‘s fifth DFB-Pokal backing and their beginning major trophy in nine years. [ 77 ] Huntelaar finished the 2010–11 season by scoring 13 goals in 35 matches. [ 78 ] On 31 July 2011, Huntelaar scored four times in an 11–1 cup thrashing away to Teningen of the Landesliga Südbaden. [ 79 ] and he scored a hat-trick to win Schalke ‘s first points of the season in a 5–1 winnings over 1. FC Köln at the Veltins-Arena. [ 80 ] On 25 August, Huntelaar scored four goals, including two penalties, in a 6–1 acquire in the qualifying play-off round of the UEFA Europa League against HJK Helsinki, allowing Schalke to overturn a 2–0 first leg deficit and advance to the group stage 6–3 on aggregate. After the resignation of capitulum bus Ralf Rangnick on 22 September 2011, [ 81 ] former Royal Blues coach Huub Stevens returned to the team for their crippled against Hamburger SV on 2 October. [ 82 ] Huntelaar powered his side to victory in Stevens ‘ first bet on back, heading in a sensational opening goal and netting the winner in the 73rd hour with a flick past goalkeeper Jaroslav Drobný. [ 83 ] He scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 succeed over Twente in the Europa League, [ 84 ] and finished the season with 38 goals in 37 appearances. [ 85 ] He said in February 2012 that he would reach his playing top out in two years time, because of his later physical exploitation. [ 86 ] Huntelaar scored a second-half brace in the club ‘s 3–2 victory over Werder Bremen on the last day of the season, earning his side automatic reservation into the group degree of the Champions League. [ 87 ] The two goals besides meant that Huntelaar finished the season with 29 goals from 34 league games, making him the first Dutch player to earn exceed scorer in the Bundesliga. [ 88 ] On 23 December 2012, Schalke announced that Huntelaar signed a biennial contract extension to 30 June 2015. [ 89 ] Huntelaar finished the 2012–13 season with 16 goals in 35 matches. [ 90 ] The succeed season, Huntelaar scored 14 goals in 21 matches. [ 91 ]

On 31 January 2015, Huntelaar received a straight red card for a slither tackle on Manuel Schmiedebach of Hannover 96. The german Football Association ( DFB ) gave him a six-match ban, which Schalke appealed. [ 92 ] On 10 March 2015, Huntelaar scored twice against former club Real Madrid in a 3–4 victory at the Santiago Bernabéu. He had not scored a league goal since November 2014, after going over 1,000 minutes and 13 games without scoring. This has led to some minor criticism over his performance in the stream season from his fans and the team ‘s coach. [ 93 ] This scoreless run, however, ended on 2 May 2015, when he scored an counterweight against VfB Stuttgart. [ 94 ] Huntelaar finished the season with 14 goals in 37 matches. [ 95 ] On 8 August 2015, Huntelaar marked his 2015–16 season introduction by scoring in a 0–5 acquire at MSV Duisburg in the first rung of the german Cup. [ 96 ] Huntelaar finished the 2015–16 season with 16 goals in 40 matches. [ 97 ] due to injuries and a drop in form, during the 2016–17 Bundesliga season Huntelaar only made 16 appearances in the league ( 7 starts, 9 appearances from the bench ), and overall 24 appearances in all competitions ( 10 starts, 14 appearances from the judiciary ), scoring a total of entirely five goals, [ 98 ] his lowest season goal score at Schalke 04 .

return to Ajax [edit ]

Huntelaar with Ajax in 2017 On 1 June 2017, Ajax confirmed that they had re-signed Huntelaar. [ 99 ] In 2019, he won with Ajax the Eredivisie, KNVB Cup and Johan Cruyff Shield ; in summation, he played in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, in which his team reached the semi-finals. On 12 December 2020, Huntelaar announced that he would retire at the end of the 2020–21 temper. [ 100 ] On 14 January 2021, Huntelaar scored twice within three minutes of coming on as a substitute to give Ajax a 3–1 win over FC Twente. [ 101 ]

hark back to Schalke 04 [edit ]

On 19 January 2021, Schalke 04 confirmed that they had signed Huntelaar until the end of the season. [ 102 ] With his goal in the 1–2 frustration against Bayer Leverkusen on 3 April 2021, he became Schalke ‘s oldest Bundesliga goalscorer at the senesce of 37 years and 234 days. [ 103 ]

International career [edit ]

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar in training with the Netherlands

youth [edit ]

Huntelaar played in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship for the Netherlands under coach Louis avant-garde Gaal. He scored two goals in the tournament before the Dutch were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Egypt. [ 11 ] After scoring 44 goals in 47 appearances for Heerenveen and Ajax in all competitions during 2005–06, Huntelaar was named in the preliminary Netherlands squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but was not selected for the final examination police squad and alternatively sent to play in the UEFA Under-21 Championship held in Portugal. Huntelaar became top scorer in the tournament with four goals [ 104 ] including two in the final on 4 June 2006 to help the Netherlands meter Ukraine 3–0 [ 105 ] and claim their first always title at under-21 level. Huntelaar was named as one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. [ 106 ] In the consequence, Huntelaar was promoted from the under-21 squad where he remains the Netherlands all-time top goalscorer with 18 goals in 22 matches. [ 7 ]

senior [edit ]

Following his achievements with the under-21 police squad, Huntelaar was selected by senior team bus Marco vanguard Basten for the Dutch national team ‘s adjacent friendly match, away against the Republic of Ireland on 16 August 2006. He scored two goals and provided two assists on his elder debut in the Netherlands ‘ 0–4 away win at Lansdowne Road, [ 107 ] making him the first Dutch musician to score on his entire international introduction for 28 years since Dick Nanninga in 1978. [ 108 ]
(right) for the first striker position. Both scored a historic combined total of 85 goals in the 2011–12 season at their respective clubs. Since Ruud van Nistelrooy ‘s retirement from the national team, Huntelaar opposes Robin van Persie for the foremost striker position. Both scored a historic combined total of 85 goals in the 2011–12 season at their respective clubs. After being left out for a count of games, he was recalled to the team in October 2007 for the UEFA Euro 2008 Qualifying games against Romania and Slovenia. [ 109 ] due to the suspension of striker Ruud vanguard Nistelrooy, Huntelaar was in the starting line-up against Slovenia and went on to score his first competitive international goal in the Netherlands 2–0 victory. [ 110 ] Huntelaar was included in the Netherlands Euro 2008 squad, and scored in his only appearance in the tournament with the opening finish of their final Group C match against Romania in a 2–0 victory. [ 111 ] With the retirement of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Huntelaar became new Dutch national team coach Bert van Marwijk ‘s first choice striker for the 2010 World Cup qualification peer against Iceland in October 2008, and scored in a 2–0 victory. [ 112 ] Huntelaar was included in the preliminary police squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. [ 113 ] On 27 May 2010, Van Marwijk announced that the musician would be share of the final team of 23 participating in the contest. [ 114 ] On 24 June, he replaced goalscorer Robin avant-garde Persie in the 58th minute against Cameroon at the park Point Stadium in Cape Town and scored the winning goal in the 83rd moment in a 2–1 acquire, taking his finish count to 16 in 34 games for the Netherlands. [ 115 ] Huntelaar besides came on as a utility for Van Persie in the circle of 16 game against Slovakia and in the quarter-final against Brazil. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] He was an unused substitute in the concluding against Spain as the Netherlands lost their third World Cup final examination 0–1 due to a late goal by Andrés Iniesta. [ 118 ] On 3 September 2010, Huntelaar scored a hat-trick against San Marino in a Euro 2012 qualifying match away at the Stadio Olimpico, a match which the Netherlands won 0–5. [ 119 ] He followed this up with both goals for the Netherlands as they defeated Finland on 7 September 2010 in Rotterdam. [ 120 ] Huntelaar added further goals to his total, with a double in a 4–1 win against Sweden on 12 October 2010. [ 121 ] He was the top goalscorer in the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying competition with 12 goals, leaving him one shy of Northern Ireland ‘s David Healy ‘s all-time reservation record. [ 122 ] At the 2014 World Cup, Huntelaar came off the bench for Robin avant-garde Persie in the round of 16 couple against Mexico with the Netherlands 0–1 down. He went on to provide the assist for Wesley Sneijder, and scored the winning goal with an injury-time punishment to qualify the team for the quarter-finals. [ 123 ] Huntelaar admitted after the match that team captain Arjen Robben was supposed to take the penalty but offered him rather to take the punishment since Huntelaar was playing well after leaving the bench .

personal life [edit ]

Since 2000, Huntelaar has been in a kinship with his girlfriend Maddy Schoolderman. [ 124 ] The couple have four children together : sons Seb ( born 9 April 2009 ), [ 124 ] Axel ( have a bun in the oven 20 July 2011 ), [ 125 ] and Jim ( born 2 January 2017 ), [ 126 ] and daughter Puck ( born 6 August 2013 ). [ 127 ] His nephew Koen Huntelaar is immediately a professional football player. [ 128 ]

career statistics [edit ]

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International [edit ]

source :

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Netherlands

2006
4
2

2007
5
1

2008
9
7

2009
11
4

2010
12
11

2011
8
5

2012
10
4

2013
1
0

2014
9
4

2015
7
4

Total
76
42

Scores and results list the Netherlands’ goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Huntelaar goal.

Honours [edit ]

Ajax [ 130 ]
Schalke 04 [ 130 ]
Netherlands Youth
Netherlands
Individual

References [edit ]