Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink | ||
| Date of birth | 7 November 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Oldenzaal, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Unattached | ||
| Senior career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Apps (Gls)2 | |
| 1996–2001 | FC Twente | 142 (63) | |
| 2001–2006 | PSV Eindhoven | 157 (76) | |
| 2006–2009 | Celtic | 80 (38) | |
| National team3 | |||
| 2000– | Netherlands | 27 (5) | |
| 1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 June, 2009. 2 Appearances (Goals). |
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Johannes "Jan" Vennegoor of Hesselink (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn vɛnnəɣoːʁ ɔvˈɦɛsəlɪŋk]) (born 7 November 1978 in Oldenzaal, Netherlands) is a Dutch footballer who is currently a free agent and plays for the Dutch national team as a striker.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] FC Twente
He scored 59 league goals for Twente over the course of five seasons. In mid-2001 he was signed up by PSV Eindhoven.
[edit] PSV Eindhoven
Vennegoor of Hesselink scored 22 times for PSV during his first season with the club. His second and third seasons at PSV proved less fruitful, with 8 and 12 goals respectively. At the end of the 2003-04 season, he was told he could leave the club, but stayed on, and in 2004-05, Vennegoor of Hesselink scored 19 goals in 28 matches. He also earned a recall to the national team in March 2005 after an absence of almost five years.
[edit] Celtic
On 24 August 2006, Vennegoor of Hesselink left PSV and signed a three-year deal with Scottish champions Celtic, with the option of a further year, for a fee of around £7m [1]. He scored the winning goal 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 UEFA Champions League against Manchester United just four days later. Injuries subsequently curtailed his appearances but he found his form late on, scoring his first hat-trick for the Bhoys against St. Mirren and a last minute winner against Inverness CT, before being sent off with a second booking after leaving the field of play to celebrate with the Celtic fans. He ended the season with 18 goals to his name and also an SPL and Scottish Cup medal.
The new season started slowly for Vennegoor of Hesselink, as he could not get a place ahead of other strikers considered much more talented by Strachan such as Sawati. However, but he started to find some form after shaking off early injuries and by January his performances improved immensely, delivering a Man of the Match performance and scoring against Kilmarnock in a 5-1 thrashing in the Scottish Cup, and followed that up with a goal against Hearts on 16 February and then a stunning diving header against Barcelona four days later to give Celtic a 1-0 lead in the Champions League Round of 16 first-leg at Celtic Park. On 16 April Vennegoor of Hesselink scored his first Old Firm goal against Rangers at Celtic Park in injury-time to give Celtic a 2-1 win. Many see this goal as the major turning point in Celtic's incredible comeback to win the league. On 22 May, the last day of the season, he scored what proved to be the league-winning goal with a powerful header off a corner kick against Dundee United at Tannadice. It was Vennegoor of Hesselink's 20th goal of the season and rounded off another successful year for both player and club, as the big striker and teammate Scott McDonald struck up an extremely productive partnership, leading most strike pairings in the UK in goals for almost the entire season, a total of 40 scored by the pair combined in the league alone and 51 in total.
He scored his first goals of the 2008-09 season on 27 September against Aberdeen in a 3-2 win at Parkhead, with his second being a last minute winner. Vennegoor of Hesselink then went on a long goal drought (mainly due to the fact that he was out injured for over three months) until 4 April 2009 when he scored Celtic's fourth goal in a 4-0 win against Hamilton with a simple tap-in. He scored again four days later in another 4-0 victory with another simple tap-in, this time the second against Falkirk. The big striker then made it three goals in three games when he scored the opening goal against Hearts at Tynecastle with less than 25 seconds on the clock. The game ended 1-1 with Bruno Aguiar scoring the equaliser for Hearts. It was then four in four when he scored a 43rd minute opener in a 2-0 win at home to Aberdeen. Vennegoor of Hesselink seems to have been a good luck charm for Celtic this season as they have not lost any games when he has scored, with four victories and a draw. He was released by Celtic in July 2009 and it is believed he is now being persued by Championship Club Bristol City and his former Dutch clubs PSV Eindhoven and FC Twente, with a return to his homeland looking the most likely destination.
[edit] International career
Vennegoor of Hesselink is a squad regular for the Netherlands. He made his international debut on 11 October 2000 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands' 2-0 friendly win over Portugal. His first international goal came against Thailand on 6 June 2007 in a friendly match at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok. He was included in the Dutch squads to play at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, when he made a late appearance as a substitute in the second-round game against Portugal, and at Euro 2008, where he appeared against Romania.
[edit] International goals
- Scores and results list Netherlands goal tally first.
| Num | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 6 June 2007 | Bangkok, Thailand |  Thailand |
1-3 | Friendly match |
| 2. | 6 February 2008 | Split, Croatia |  Croatia |
0-3 | Friendly match |
| 3. | 26 March 2008 | Vienna, Austria |  Austria |
3-3 | Friendly match |
[edit] Career statistics
- As of 22 June 2009.
| Club | Season | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Celtic | 2006-07 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 18 |
| 2007-08 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 46 | 20 | |
| 2008-09 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 10 | |
| Total | 80 | 38 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 110 | 48 | |
[edit] Honours
- Eredivisie (2003), (2005), (2006)
- KNVB Cup (2001), (2005)
- Johan Cruijff Schaal (2001), (2003)
- Scottish Premier League (2007), (2008)
- Scottish Cup (2007)
- Scottish League Cup (2009)
[edit] Name
His name 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.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink career stats at Soccerbase
- Official homepage
- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink profile from Carling
- Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink profile and stats at Wereld van Oranje (Dutch)
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