Boudewijn Zenden

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Boudewijn Zenden

Full name	Boudewijn Zenden
Date of birth	15 August 1976
Place of birth	Maastricht, Netherlands
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.74 m)
Nickname	Bolo
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Liverpool
Number	32
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1993-1998 1998-2001 2001-2004 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-	PSV Eindhoven FC Barcelona Chelsea → Middlesbrough (loan) Middlesbrough Liverpool	109 (32) 64 (2) 43 (4) 31 (4) 36 (5) 7 (2)
National team**
1997-2004	Netherlands	54 (7)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 Mar 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 13 Mar 2006.

Boudewijn "Bolo" Zenden (pronunciation (help·info)) (born August 15, 1976) is a Dutch footballer who plays most often as a midfielder. Zenden currently plays for Liverpool in the English Premiership. He has earned 54 caps and scored 7 goals for the Dutch national team, and he represented his country in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 tournaments.

Prior to joining Liverpool, Zenden played for PSV Eindhoven (1994-98), Barcelona (1998-2001), Chelsea (2001-03), and Middlesbrough (2003-05). He started his career out as a winger, playing on the left, however he has also played as a left wingback and a central midfielder during his career.

1 Biography
2 Career statistics
- 2.1 Club performance
- 2.2 International goals
3 Honours
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Born in Dutch town Maastricht, his father is Pierre Zenden, who is a former judoka and who worked as a sports broadcaster for the public NOS broadcasting system from 1968 to 2005.^[1] Zenden played football and was also competitive in judo as a child. In 1985 Dutch club MVV Maastricht signed Zenden after watching him play for amateur club Leonidas. Two years later Zenden joined the youth academy of PSV Eindhoven.^[2]

He achieved his judo black belt by the age of 14^[3] and was three times judo champion of his home province of Limburg.^[4] However, at the age of 16 he chose to pursue a career in football.

[edit] Club career

As his career developed at PSV Eindhoven, Zenden made the left wing position his own, displacing Peter Hoekstra and finally becoming a firm member of the starting line-up after the departure of Dutch national team player Jan Wouters. Zenden was an important part of the PSV team which won the Dutch Eredivisie league championship in 1997, and he received the 1997 "Dutch Talent of the Year" award.^[2]

After a further season at PSV, in which he scored 12 goals in 23 games, he moved to Spanish club Barcelona in 1998. Here he became part of a large contingent of Dutch players under Barcelona's Dutch coach Louis van Gaal. He found his first-team opportunities at Barcelona limited by the form of fellow Dutchman Marc Overmars, who played in Zenden's favoured left wing position for both club and country. Instead, Zenden was deployed as a left wingback, a defensive role which he took on successfully, as he displaced Spanish international and local favourite Sergi Barjuán.^[5] He helped Barcelona win the 1998-99 La Liga championship, and in the 1999-2000 season, he scored his only three goals for the club. However, after Van Gaal's resignation as coach in 2000, first team appearances became more scarce for Zenden. At the end of the 2000-2001 season, English club Chelsea bought him for £7.5 million.^[6] In his three years at Chelsea, Zenden played in the 2002 FA Cup final, a 2-0 defeat by Arsenal, but he never secured himself a constant place in the starting line-up.

He was loaned out to league rivals Middlesbrough for the 2003-2004 season. Here he found playing success, as he scored the winning goal in the 2004 League Cup final against Bolton Wanderers to secure Middlesbrough their first major trophy in club history. When his contract with Chelsea expired in the summer 2004, he moved to Middlesbrough on a free transfer, signing a one-year contract for the 2004-2005 season.^[7] He was deployed in a central midfield position, where he played 36 of 38 league games, scoring 5 goals in the process, and was voted the Middlesbrough fans' 2005 Player of the Year.^[8] However, it would be his last for Middlesbrough, as he left in the summer of 2005 when his contract ran out.

Zenden joined newly crowned UEFA Champions League champions Liverpool on July 4, 2005. He started his Liverpool career being used regularly as a left midfielder, and was in the starting line-up as Liverpool won the 2005 European Super Cup. He suffered a serious cruciate ligament injury in his right knee in December 2005,^[9] which ruled him out for the rest of the season.^[8] He recovered for the start of the 2006-2007 season, and was part of the Liverpool team that won the 2006 Community Shield. After the departure of German central midfielder Dietmar Hamann in the summer 2006, Liverpool manager Rafa Benítez indicated that he saw Zenden as an option in the central midfield.^[10]

[edit] International career

Zenden made his debut for the Dutch national team in a 1998 World Cup qualification match against San Marino on April 30, 1997. He was included in the Dutch starting formation, and played the entire game as the Netherlands won 6-0.^[11] He was called up to represent the Netherlands at the 1998 World Cup in France, where Zenden started the tournament as a substitute. Coming on twice as a substitute, he was selected to start in the semi-final loss to Brazil. He was once more selected to play in the 3rd placing playoff against Croatia, where he scored a goal after a solo run and a powerful long-range shot.^[12] After scoring, he attempted to celebrate with an acrobatic somersault, but failed, throwing himself head first to the ground.^[2]

He again represented his country at the 2000 European Championship (Euro 2000). This time he took part in all five Dutch matches in the tournament. With his goals against Denmark and France he helped the Netherlands advance from the preliminary group stage. He started the semi-final against Italy, but he was substituted in a game that meant the elimination of the Dutch team on penalty shootout.

Zenden featured again in the 2004 European Championship (Euro 2004), though he only played in the semi-final as the Netherlands were eliminated. Following the tournament, Zenden, like other experienced players including Clarence Seedorf and Edgar Davids, found himself excluded from the national squad selection by new Dutch national team coach Marco van Basten. Since September 2004, Zenden has not been called up, and the injury he suffered in December 2005 put paid to any chance he might have had of playing in the 2006 World Cup.

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Club performance

Club	Season	Premiership		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Others		Total
Club	Season	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Liverpool FC	2006-07	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	4	0
Liverpool FC	2005-06	7	2	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	17	2
Middlesbrough FC	2004-05	36	5	2	0	1	0	10	3	0	0	49	8
Middlesbrough FC	2003-04	31	4	2	1	6	2	0	0	0	0	39	7
Chelsea FC	2003-04	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2002-03	21	1	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	27	1
	2001-02	22	3	3	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	32	3
Club	Season	Primera Div		Spanish Cup		---------		Europe		Others		Total
Club	Season	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
FC Barcelona	2000-01	10	0	3	0	-	-	5	0	0	0	18	0
	1999-00	29	2	?	?	-	-	10	1	0	0	39	3
	1998-99	25	0	?	?	-	-	4	0	0	0	29	0
Club	Season	Eredivisie		Dutch Cup		---------		Europe		Others		Total
Club	Season	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
PSV Eindhoven	1997-98	23	12	?	?	-	-	0	0	0	0	23	12
	1996-97	34	8	?	?	-	-	4	1	0	0	38	9
	1995-96	25	7	?	?	-	-	?	1	0	0	25	8
	1994-95	27	5	?	?	-	-	1	0	0	0	28	5
Total		291	49	14	1	13	2	49	6	1	0	368	58

[edit] International goals

Scores and results list the Netherlands' goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	1998-07-11	Paris, France	Croatia	1-1	1-2	1998 World Cup
2	1999-10-09	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Brazil	2-0	2-2	Friendly match
3	2000-02-23	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Germany	2-1	2-1	Friendly match
4	2000-06-16	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Denmark	3-0	3-0	Euro 2000
5	2000-06-21	Amsterdam, Netherlands	France	3-2	3-2	Euro 2000
6	2001-09-05	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Estonia	1-0	5-0	2002 World Cup qual.
7	2004-04-28	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Greece	2-0	4-0	Friendly match

[edit] Honours

1995–96 Dutch Cup, with PSV Eindhoven
1996–97 Dutch League Championship, with PSV Eindhoven
1998–99 Spanish League Championship, with FC Barcelona
2003–04 League Cup, with Middlesbrough
2005–06 European Super Cup, with Liverpool
2006–07 Community Shield, with Liverpool

[edit] References

^ (Dutch) Pierre Zenden bondsridder, jbn.nl, May 25, 2005
^ ^a ^b ^c Profile of Bolo Zenden at lfchistory.net
^ Chelsea who's who, BBC Sport, 30 April, 2002
^ Boudewijn Zenden at football.guardian.co.uk
^ EURO2000 | SQUAD | Boudewijn Zenden at BBC Sport.
^ Boudewijn Zenden at Soccernet
^ Zenden signs one-year Boro deal, Soccernet, July 31, 2004
^ ^a ^b Boudewijn Zenden Squad Profile at liverpoolfc.tv
^ Neil Johnston, Knee injury rules out Zenden for season, The Independent, December 10, 2005
^ Mark Platt, Rafa: Bolo can be middle man, liverpoolfc.tv, July 11, 2006
^ (Dutch) Wedstrijd details | San Marino 0 - 6 Nederland at KNVB
^ World Cup Soccer Recap (Netherlands-Croatia), CNN/SI, July 11, 1998

[edit] External links

(Dutch) Dutch national team profile
Statistics at soccerbase.com
Profile at 4thegame.com
Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
Profile at premierleague.com

	Netherlands squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place
1 van der Sar \| 2 Reiziger \| 3 Stam \| 4 F. de Boer \| 5 Numan \| 6 Jonk \| 7 R. de Boer \| 8 Bergkamp \| 9 Kluivert \| 10 Seedorf \| 11 Cocu \| 12 Zenden \| 13 Ooijer \| 14 Overmars \| 15 Bogarde \| 16 Davids \| 17 van Hooijdonk \| 18 de Goeij \| 19 van Bronckhorst \| 20 Winter \| 21 Hasselbaink \| 22 Hesp \| Coach: Hiddink

Liverpool F.C. - Current Squad

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