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Roy Makaay
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Roy Rudolphus Anton Makaay (born 9 March 1975 in Wijchen (Wijchen: wijchen is a municipality and a town in the eastern netherlands.... [follow hyperlink for more...]) , Netherlands (Netherlands: A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1579; half the country lies below sea level) ) is a Dutch international (Dutch international: the netherlands national football team (known by its fans as oranje, after their orange... [follow hyperlink for more...]) football (football: Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal) er who is a striker (striker: The part of a mechanical device that strikes something) for the Netherlands and Bayern Munich (Bayern Munich: bayern munich (german: fc bayern münchen) is a german football (soccer)|football... [follow hyperlink for more...]) . Makaay was the European Golden Boot (European Golden Boot: the european golden boot has been awarded to the highest goalscorer in all the top european... [follow hyperlink for more...]) winner in 2002-2003 for being the top scorer in Europe (Europe: The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) . He was first recognised as a talented striker while playing for Vitesse Arnhem (Vitesse Arnhem: vitesse arnhem is a dutch football (soccer)|football club which was founded in 1892.... [follow hyperlink for more...]) in the mid 1990s and honed his skills at the Spanish First Division with Tenerife (Tenerife: A Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands) and later with Deportivo de La Coruña (Deportivo de La Coruña: more facts about this subject) where he scored 22 goals in 36 appearances in his most profilic 1999/2000 season. His international caps for the Dutch national team has been limited due to previous players like Patrick Kluivert (Patrick Kluivert: patrick kluivert (born july 1, 1976 in amsterdam) is a dutch international football... [follow hyperlink for more...]) , Dennis Bergkamp (Dennis Bergkamp: dennis bergkamp (born may 10, 1969 in amsterdam) is a former dutch international... [follow hyperlink for more...]) and now Ruud van Nistelrooy (Ruud van Nistelrooy: ruud van nistelrooy (full name rutgerus johannes martinus van nistelrooij, see letter... [follow hyperlink for more...]) who scored far more goals for the national team and who played for more internationally reknowned clubs. Makaay did play for his country at Euro 2000 (Euro 2000: the 2000 uefa european championship, or euro 2000, was the 11th edition of the uefa... [follow hyperlink for more...]) and Euro 2004 (Euro 2004: the 2004 uefa european football championship, commonly called euro 2004, was held in... [follow hyperlink for more...]) |
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