Dennis Bergkamp

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The Biography:
A striker who stands out more because of the quality of his goals than the quantity. He is the kind of player who can leave the two or three defenders he passed wondering what the hell just happened. He likes to score from outside the box or take the ball from there inside the box to score. A case in point is the goal he scored against Newcastle on the March 2, 2002.

Dennis is standing just outside the box, with his back towards the defender.
A long pass from the midfield comes flying low over the ground.
Without even looking towards the defender, he touches the ball only once, leg out-stretched.
The ball curves past the defender, but Dennis also passes the defender on the other side, like two streams of the same river passing a rock.
The goal a second later is then just a matter of formality for Bergkamp and the flabbergasted goal keeper.
Throughout the entire event, Dennis never once looked at the defender, though he knew exactly where he was.

This example illustrates his fine ability to control the ball, to not need to touch the ball more than once (other, otherwise excellent strikers, often need to 'control' the ball by bringing it to rest, giving defenders the chance to intercept), to leave defenders standing and his preference to score (or to prepare a goal) from outside the box.

Details:
Full name:     Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp
Date of birth:     May 10, 1969
Place of birth:     Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height:     6.0FT - 1.83M
Playing position:     Striker

Professional career:
Dennis Bergkamp has played in his professional career for three clubs.

Clubs:
Ajax Amsterdam
Inter Milan
Arsenal F.C. (joined summer 1995)

Stats:
Dennis Bergkamp is second on the all-time list of goal scorers for the Dutch national team: 37 in 79 games. (The all-time leader is Patrick Kluivert, with 40 goals in 75 games as of 13 December 2003. #3, Faas Wilkes, only needed 38 games for 35 goals and #4, Abe Lenstra, 47 games for 33 goals.)

Season            Club                      Games     Goals
1986–1993     Ajax Amsterdam        185     103
1993–1995     Internazionale               52     11
1995–2006     Arsenal                      315     87

Years              National Team     Games     Goals
1995-2006     Netherlands               79     37

Being born in Amsterdam, Bergkamp's first choice was obviously the renowned youth department of Ajax, one of the top teams in Holland throughout time. He was picked up by the club at age 12, somewhat late in comparison to other soccer players.

For 5 years, he went through all the "ranks" in the Ajax youth system, until he was finally taken to the first team when he was just 17. Ajax's coach was none other than famous Dutch striker Johan Cruyff and it was him that saw a brilliant diamond in Dennis Bergkamp that needed to be chiseled.

Ajax Amsterdam does have a "habit" of sending very young players on the pitch, but on the other hand, having the most impressive youth system in the World, it's easy for them to do this. Bergkamp was part of this entire scheme and he joined the pitch for Ajax when he was 17, playing 14 games on his first professional season.

In his second season, he was already a first team regular and by his third, he was already a legend in the hearts of Ajax supporters, when Ajax won the Dutch league.

But Bergkamp's best time with Ajax was the 1992 season, when he won the UEFA Cup, his first major international trophy. In the following three seasons, he became Ajax's most prolific striker, scoring no less than 103 goals in 185 matches for the club, before Internazionale Milano set eyes on him.

Internazionale Milano - Bergkamp's move to Inter meant a fresh new start and for many players, a fresh new start is not good for their
form. In 2 seasons for Inter, he only managed to score 11 goals in 52 matches and a lot of pundits started saying that Bergkamp is a finished player that had his say at Ajax and nothing more. Fortunately, Arsenal gave him a chance to come back on top of the soccer scene, offering him a contract that he hastily signed in the summer of 1995.

Arsenal London - His first year at Arsenal didn't really break the news and many of the Gunners fans started wondering if bringing Dennis Bergkamp to their team was indeed a smart move.

On his second season however, Bergkamp's form would get a fantastic boost with Arsene Wenger being named manager of Arsenal. The Frenchman knew exactly how to position Bergkamp and his move proved fruitful as the Dutch striker started getting back on top of his game. His 11 seasons at Arsenal brought him a tally of 3 League titles, 4 Cups and a few disappointments.

In 2000, Bergkamp and his team lost the UEFA Cup final in a dramatic penalty-shootout and in 2006 he lost the Champions League final after an equally dramatic match that saw Arsenal playing 10 versus 11 from the starting minutes, as Jens Lehman, the Gunners' goalkeeper, was sent off for a last – man foul.