Football will miss Van Nistelrooy

Day of joy and sadness in Malaga. As the club celebrates the classification, for the first time in its history, for UEFA Champions League , one of the big ones, while a member of staff has been able to overcome the bar of the team anchovy in its 64 years. Ruud van Nistelrooy, one of the best strikers of the last decade, announced Tuesday that cut the ponytail, hanging boots tired of scoring goals and out the front door. At 34 years of football left.

Little by little they are players who have scored marching season. This weekend, in Calcium, Alessandro Del Piero said goodbye at Juventus and Filippo Inzaghi in Milan , two 'capocannoniere', each in its own way, they have earned the label of cracks along their extensive careers . A sign that we get older, they begin to invade nostalgia at times. I still remember as Luc Van Gol Nilis accompanied at the forefront of PSV .

In the Eredivisie to stardom

While the Belgian front was probably in the prime of his career, growing next to a player who is a career labraría legend. Van Nistelrooy started to become familiar with the goals of the opposing team in his native Holland. He debuted in Den Bosch, in the Second. After four seasons he jumped at first thanks to Heerenveen, thanks to the effectiveness of '9 'in the old way pocketed more than six million by selling the PSV .

With a stunning plant and a prolific set of nines like Eindhoven, Van Nistelrooy became idol checking everything under the sun. Silver Boot the first year, the second was cut short by an injury that could have affected his career. Totaled 29 goals, his move to Manchester United was almost certain and broke. In the midst of recovery, tore the cruciate ligament in his right leg. Farewell to the Premier? No way.

Idol at United, Real Madrid Pichichi

Despite his white season, rebounded and signed in 2001, the contract that the injury had robbed him seal. United took the winning horse. Five seasons in England in which almost won it all, improved their records and played with the Netherlands the Euro and the World . Perhaps the Champions League, where he was top scorer on three occasions, is the title that has stood in an enviable track record and the height of his side scoring.

Then it was Real Madrid. The arrival of a proven world class player who did not go unnoticed. He succeeded in his nearly three years in white, being top scorer in the championship, winning the Pichichi upon arrival (and with 30 years and with doubts about his potential return ) and harvesting two league titles. He left in January 2010 to the Bundesliga, where he also left his mark in Hamburg scored 17 goals in eighteen months. Their age and their numbers increased down.

Malaga, his last team

Able to return to Spain last year, when Real Madrid as he groped in the winter market . However, his return to the League took place in summer , when the project attractive Malaga seduced him. It was not the scorer of the past, obviously, but has helped make the dream Malacitano. The former nightmare for goalkeepers and defenses are dismissed with accomplishment. Van The Man leaves and football, if speaking, I would say you will miss. And do not be mistaken.

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