The Decade’s Top Football Strikers – Part 2
-Ruud Van Nistelrooy:
This Dutch sensation currently plays for Hamburg and has also went through some big clubs like Real Madrid, Manchester United and PSV Eindhoven.
Nistelrooy is known to be a creative goal-scorer as he usually nets some excellent goals for both his country and club. He scored sixty two goals in just sixty seven games while playing for PSV Eindhoven.
This consistency made Sir Alex Ferguson sign him for a sizable transfer amount. The player scored more than a hundred and fifty goals for Manchester United in almost five years. Ruud had a spat with Cristiano Ronaldo in 2006 after which he left Manchester
United and got signed by Real Madrid in the same year.
The player had an excellent start to his term with Real Madrid but then he became the victim of numerous injuries there and had to leave with the arrival of Gonzalo Higuain and the signing of Karim Benzema.
Recently, he got transferred to Hamburg and is having a good time there so far. He also played his part in the Netherlands National team but retired from international duty in 2008. However, the player came out of retirement for the 2010 World Cup.
-Patrick Kluivert:
Patrick Kluivert is another Dutch player and has played for clubs like Valencia, Lille, PSV Eindhoven, Newcastle United, AC Milan, Barcelona and Ajax.
He was part of the golden generation that came from the Ajax Academy. This generation also includes players like Edwin Can der Sar, Clarence Seedorf and Dennis Bergkamp.
He proved to be instrumental for Ajax in the 1990s. He made some two hundred and fifty five appearances for Barcelona while netted a hundred and twenty goals before moving to Newcastle United.
But Kluivert didn't have such a productive term with Newcastle United as well as with Lille and Valencia. He had been a key player for the Netherlands National team also as he made seventy nine appearances and scored forty goals for them from 1994-2004.
He then retired from international duty in 2008 and was given the title of FIFA 100 by Pele.
-Raul Gonzalez:
Raul Gonzalez is a Spaniard who currently plays for Schalke and has also played for Los Blancos before.
Raul is a Real Madrid living legend and was part of the club for almost fifteen years. He had came out of the Los Blancos youth academy and made a spot in their first team at an early age.
He was known as a creative goal-scorer there and made some amazing partnerships with Fernando Morientes as well as Ronaldo. Gonzalez won various championships with Real Madrid which include the La Liga and Champions league. He also holds the record of being
the biggest goal-scorer in La Roja.
-Ole Gunnar Solskjaer:
Solskjaer is a player from Norway who has played for Manchester United and Molde. He was considered to be one of Red Devils' greatest signings as he was brought by Sir Alex Ferguson at a bargain price from Molde.
(To be continued in Part 3)
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