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| Full name | Ronaldus de Boer[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1970-05-15)15 May 1970 (age 55)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hoorn,[1] Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| VV De Zouaven | |||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1988 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1991 | Ajax | 52 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Twente | 49 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1999 | Ajax | 172 | (36) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Barcelona | 33 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Rangers | 91 | (32) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Al-Rayyan | 22 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Al-Shamal | 56 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 475 | (116) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–2003 | Netherlands | 67 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Qatar Olympic (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Qatar U–23 (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Ronaldus de Boer (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈroːnɑldəˈbuːr];[citation needed] born 15 May 1970) is a Dutch former professionalfootballer who played as aright or attacking midfielder orright winger. He played for theNetherlands national team as well as a host of professional clubs in Europe. He is the twin brother ofFrank de Boer. The majority of his success as a football player was withAjax. He works as the Ajax A1 assistant manager.
De Boer's first youth club was De Zouaven inLutjebroek where he played before being selected for the Ajax youth programme in 1983. On the professional club level, De Boer played forAjax (1988–91 and 1993–99),Twente (1991–93),Barcelona (1999–2000),Rangers (2000–04),Al-Rayyan (2004–05) andAl-Shamal (2005–08). In both Qatari clubs, he was reunited again with his brother Frank, his teammate at Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers.
In his first spell at Ajax from 1988 to 1991, he won theEredivisie title in1989–90 under managerLeo Beenhakker. After two seasons atTwente from 1991 to 1993, he returned to Ajax under managerLouis van Gaal, and had his most successful spell as a player, winning three consecutiveEredivisie titles in1993–94,1994–95 and1995–96. He also won the1995 UEFA Champions League, the1995 Intercontinental Cup, and the1995 UEFA Super Cup. He was also a runner-up of the1996 UEFA Champions League, where Ajax lost on penalties toJuventus. When Louis van Gaal left Ajax for Barcelona in July 1997,Morten Olsen became the new Ajax manager, and De Boer won a fifth Eredivisie title in1997–98 and also won the1997–98 KNVB Cup.
There was then controversy soon after De Boer and his twin brotherFrank signed a six-year contract extension with Ajax at the start1998–99 season, when Ronald and Frank took successful legal action to have the contract voided. Ajax had agreed verbally that if a lucrative offer for one brother came by, he would be released provided the other stayed. Ajax, however, apparently backed down on that agreement after floating the club on the stock market and pledging to shareholders that it would hold both of the De Boers and build around them a team to recapture the UEFA Champions League.[3]
The fallout over the contract situation led to an increasing conflict between the De Boer twins and the Ajax hierarchy, with match results for Ajax suffering and manager Morten Olsen soon getting sacked. In January 1999, Frank and Ronald signed for Barcelona for £22 million, joining their former Ajax manager Louis van Gaal at theCamp Nou.[4]
While De Boer was impressive at Ajax during the 1990s and for theNetherlands up to and including the1998 FIFA World Cup, his high-profile transfer to Barcelona in January 1999 marked what would be an unlikely bad patch for a prolific goal-scoring midfielder, as he managed to feature in only 33La Liga games for the club and scored just one goal in La Liga. In the 2000–01 season, he opted to join the Dutch legion atRangers under the managerDick Advocaat.[5] Among the Dutch internationals who at that time played for Rangers wereBert Konterman,Arthur Numan,Fernando Ricksen andGiovanni van Bronckhorst. De Boer made his debut in aScottish League Cup tie againstAberdeen on 6 September 2000,[6] and scored his first goal for the club in aUEFA Champions League tie againstSturm Graz.[7] De Boer didn't win any silverware at the end of his first season at the club, but the following season (2001–02) Rangers won both theScottish League Cup and theScottish Cup,[8] though De Boer missed the former final through injury.[9] The following season, 2002–03, brought even more success as De Boer helped Rangers win a domestic treble of league, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup.[10][11][12] In total he spent four seasons with the club before joining Al-Rayyan after the 2003–04 season.[13]
De Boer recovered from surgery on a neck injury and decided not to play in Al-Shamal's last two games of the 2006–07 season. On 19 March 2008, De Boer canceled his contract with Qatari outfit Al-Shamal and retired.
De Boer won 67caps and scored 13 goals for the Netherlands national team. He played for the Netherlands in the1994 and the1998World Cups, where he played in six matches and scored two goals. He missed a penalty in thepenalty shootout againstBrazil in the 1998 semi-finals. De Boer also played inEuro 1996 andEuro 2000.
In the Dutch national team, De Boer was used in various positions, including right-half, centre forward and attacking midfielder. In his early Ajax years, De Boer played either centre forward or attacking midfielder. In later years, he shifted to right midfield.
De Boer was never officially captain of the Dutch national team or Ajax, but he has worn the captain's armband on several occasions for both club teams and the national team when the first-choice captain was not playing. In most teams, this was his brother Frank, with whom he has played side by side for most of his career.
De Boer is Ajax A1 assistant manager.
De Boer featured inEA Sports'FIFA video game series; he was on the cover for the International edition ofFIFA 96, alongsideJason McAteer.[14]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ajax | 1987–88 | Eredivisie | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1988–89 | Eredivisie | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | – | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| 1989–90 | Eredivisie | 20 | 7 | 3 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 25 | 7 | ||||
| 1990–91 | Eredivisie | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 52 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 14 | ||
| Twente | 1991–92 | Eredivisie | 33 | 11 | 1 | 0 | – | 34 | 11 | |||||
| 1992–93 | Eredivisie | 16 | 11 | 2 | 0 | – | 18 | 11 | ||||||
| Total | 49 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 22 | ||
| Ajax | 1992–93 | Eredivisie | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | 18 | 5 | |||||
| 1993–94 | Eredivisie | 28 | 5 | 4 | 2 | – | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 9 | ||
| 1994–95[15] | Eredivisie | 25 | 5 | 3 | 4 | – | 10 | 2 | 1[a] | 0 | 39 | 11 | ||
| 1995–96[15] | Eredivisie | 31 | 7 | 1 | 1 | – | 11 | 1 | 3[b] | 1 | 46 | 10 | ||
| 1996–97[15] | Eredivisie | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | – | 10 | 1 | 1[a] | 0 | 40 | 6 | ||
| 1997–98[15] | Eredivisie | 31 | 7 | 4 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | – | 43 | 7 | |||
| 1998–99[15] | Eredivisie | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 173 | 36 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 247 | 50 | ||
| Barcelona | 1998–99[16] | La Liga | 13 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 17 | 1 | |||||
| 1999–2000[16] | La Liga | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | 1[c] | 1 | 38 | 2 | ||
| Total | 33 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 3 | ||
| Rangers | 2000–01[17] | Scottish Premier League | 17 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | – | 26 | 7 | |
| 2001–02[18] | Scottish Premier League | 25 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | – | 39 | 10 | ||
| 2002–03[19] | Scottish Premier League | 33 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 43 | 20 | ||
| 2003–04[20] | Scottish Premier League | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 21 | 3 | ||
| Total | 91 | 32 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 40 | ||
| Al-Rayyan | 2004–05[21] | Qatar Stars League | 22 | 3 | – | 22 | 3 | |||||||
| Al-Shamal | 2005–06[21] | Qatar Stars League | 17 | 5 | – | 22 | 3 | |||||||
| 2006–07[21] | Qatar Stars League | 24 | 3 | – | 22 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2007–08[21] | Qatar Stars League | 15 | 0 | – | 22 | 3 | ||||||||
| Total | 56 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 8 | ||
| Career total | 476 | 116 | 49 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 82 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 622 | 140 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1993 | 4 | 3 |
| 1994 | 11 | 3 | |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1996 | 10 | 3 | |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1998 | 13 | 3 | |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2000 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 67 | 13 | |
International goals
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 24 March 1993 | Stadion Galgenwaard,Utrecht, Netherlands |  San Marino | 4–0 | 6–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2. | 22 September 1993 | Stadio Renato Dall'Ara,Bologna, Italy | San Marino | 4–0 | 7–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 3. | 17 November 1993 | Stadion Miejski,Poznań, Poland |  Poland | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 4. | 7 September 1994 | Stade Josy Barthel,Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |  Luxembourg | 2–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 5. | 3–0 | |||||
| 6. | 14 December 1994 | De Kuip,Rotterdam, Netherlands | Luxembourg | 4–0 | 5–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
| 7. | 31 August 1996 | Amsterdam Arena,Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Brazil | 1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 8. | 5 October 1996 | Cardiff Arms Park,Cardiff, Wales |  Wales | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 9. | 9 November 1996 | Philips Stadion,Eindhoven, Netherlands | Wales | 2–0 | 7–1 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 10. | 21 February 1998 | Pro Player Stadium,Miami Gardens, United States |  United States | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 11. | 20 June 1998 | Stade Vélodrome,Marseille, France |  South Korea | 5–0 | 5–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup |
| 12. | 25 June 1998 | Stade Geoffroy-Guichard,Saint-Étienne, France |  Mexico | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1998 FIFA World Cup |
| 13. | 16 June 2000 | De Kuip,Rotterdam, Netherlands |  Denmark | 2–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 2000 |
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