Roy Makaay

Roy Makaay
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Personal information
Full name Rudolphus Antonius Makaay
Date of birth 9 March 1975 (1975-03-09) (age 35)
Place of birth Wijchen, Netherlands
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Striker (retired)
Club information
Current club Feyenoord U-13 (Assistant Coach)
Youth career
SC Woezik
DIOSA
Blauw-Wit
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1993–1997 Vitesse 109 (42)
1997–1999 Tenerife 72 (21)
1999–2003 Deportivo La Coruña 133 (79)
2003–2007 Bayern Munich[1] 129 (78)
2007–2010 Feyenoord 83 (36)
Total 526 (256)
National team
1996–2005 Netherlands 43 (6)
2008 Netherlands Olympic 3 (2)
Teams managed
2010– Feyenoord U-13 (Assistant Coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Rudolphus "Roy" Antonius Makaay (born 9 March 1975 in Wijchen) is a retired Dutch footballer. While playing for Bayern Munich he picked up the nickname Das Phantom (the Phantom), for his ability to score out of nowhere.

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Career

Makaay was the European Golden Boot winner for the 2002–03 season for being the top scorer in Europe. He was first recognized as a talented striker while playing for Vitesse in the mid 1990s and honed his skills at the Spanish First Division with Tenerife and later with Deportivo La Coruña where he scored 22 goals in 36 appearances in 1999–00, his most prolific season. His international caps for the Dutch national team have been limited due to players such as Patrick Kluivert, Dennis Bergkamp and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Makaay did, however, play for his country at Euro 2000 and Euro 2004. In the latter tournament, he scored against Latvia in the first round. He played 31 times for the Dutch U-21 national team which equals a record with Arnold Bruggink.

His first encounter with Bayern Munich came during the UEFA Champions League 2002–03 season when he scored a hat-trick at the Olympiastadion in Munich, in Deportivo's 3–2 win over the Bavarians. The Bayern bosses kept a close eye on him throughout the whole season and finally beat off stiff challenges from Manchester United and Chelsea to get their man. A then club record fee of €18.75 million was paid to Deportivo La Coruña for the Dutch goal machine. He scored 78 Bundesliga and 17 UEFA Champions League goals during his four seasons at Bayern.

On 21 August 2006, Roy Makaay scored Bayern Munich's 3,000th Bundesliga goal. On 31 March 2007, he scored his 100th Bayern Munich goal in the game against FC Schalke 04. It was his 75th Bundesliga goal and 100th competitive goal since joining Bayern Munich in 2003.

On 7 March 2007 Makaay scored the quickest goal in Champions League history, finding the net after just 10.2 seconds to help Bayern overturn a first-leg deficit and put Real Madrid out of the competition.[2]

Makaay returned to the Netherlands for the 2007–08 season, when Feyenoord signed him to a 3-year deal worth €5 million in June 2007. Makaay's decision to leave was influenced by Bayern Munich's decision to sign forwards Luca Toni and Miroslav Klose.[3]

Makaay hung up his boots at the end of season 2009–2010, scoring a hat-trick in his last match against Heerenveen.

Career statistics

[4]

Club League Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Vitesse Eredivisie 1993–94 10 1 10 1
1994–95 34 11 34 11
1995–96 31 11 - 31 11
1996–97 34 19 5 3 - 39 22
Total 109 42 114 45
Tenerife La Liga 1997–98 36 7 - 36 7
1998–99 36 14 - 36 14
Total 72 21 - 72 21
Deportivo La Coruña La Liga 1999–00 36 22 2 1 3 3 41 26
2000–01 29 16 0 0 6 1 35 17
2001–02 30 12 2 1 9 1 41 14
2002–03 38 29 5 1 11 9 54 39
Total 133 79 9 3 29 14 171 96
Bayern Munich Bundesliga 2003–04 32 23 4 2 8 6 44 31
2004–05 33 22 5 5 8 7 46 34
2005–06 31 17 5 0 8 2 44 19
2006–07 33 16 3 0 8 2 44 18
Total 129 78 17 7 32 17 178 102
Feyenoord Eredivisie 2007–08 28 13 5 7 - 33 20
2008–09 31 16 3 4 6 0 39 20
2009–10 24 7 4 3 0 0 28 10
Total 83 36 8 12 6 0 101 50
Career total 526 256 42 26 67 31 636 314

[5]

Netherlands national team
Year Apps Goals
1996 1 0
1997 1 0
1998 0 0
1999 0 0
2000 7 0
2001 6 0
2002 5 2
2003 6 1
2004 4 1
2005 1 0
Total 31 4

Coaching career

After his retirement he was named as the assistant coach of the U-13 team of his last club Feyenoord under head coach Gerard Rutjes.[6]

Honours

Club

Spain Deportivo La Coruña

Germany Bayern Munich

Netherlands Feyenoord

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "MAKAAY". footballdatabase.com. http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=player&Id=674&b=true&pn=Roy_Rudolphus_Anton_Makaay. Retrieved 20 April 2008. 
  2. ↑ "Bayern M 2–1 R Madrid (agg 4–4)". BBC News. 7 March 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6414969.stm. Retrieved 4 January 2008. 
  3. ↑ "Feyenoord signs Netherlands striker Roy Makaay from Bayern Munich on three-year deal". International Herald Tribune. 28 June 2007. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/28/sports/EU-SPT-SOC-Feyenoord-Makaay.php. Retrieved 4 January 2008. 
  4. ↑ "Roy Makaay" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. http://www.vi.nl/Spelers/Speler.htm?dbid=15681&typeofpage=84137. Retrieved 21 May 2010. 
  5. ↑ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=4743
  6. ↑ "Roy Makaay gaat Feyenoord Academy versterken" (in Dutch). Feyenoord. 21 May 2010. http://www.feyenoord.nl/pages/newsdetail/S1/10010000036543-999-10010000000003.aspx. Retrieved 21 May 2010. 

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