Dirk Kuyt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dirk Kuyt

Dutch association football player

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1980

Place of Birth: Katwijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: association football player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Dirk Kuyt

  • Dirk Kuyt (Dutch: Dirk Kuijt; Dutch pronunciation: ['d?rk 'kÅ“yt] (listen); born 22 July 1980) is a Dutch former professional footballer.
  • Originally starting out as a striker, he played much of his career as a winger. Kuyt began his professional career with Utrecht in 1998 and quickly became part of its first team.
  • He spent five years at the club, and in his final season he won his first senior honour, the KNVB Cup, and was chosen as the season's Dutch Golden Shoe Winner.
  • Following this, he left Utrecht in a €1 million transfer to Feyenoord.
  • He became the club captain in 2005 and was a prolific goalscorer at the Rotterdam club; he was the club's top scorer for three consecutive seasons, the top goalscorer in the 2004–05 Eredivisie season, and the 2005–06 Dutch Footballer of the Year.
  • Kuyt missed only five games over seven seasons from 1999 until 2006 and appeared in 179 consecutive matches between 2001–06, striking up a fruitful partnership with fellow Feyenoord teammate Salomon Kalou. He left Feyenoord after three years, having scored 71 league goals in 101 appearances, and joined Premier League side Liverpool for £10 million.
  • He made his Premier League debut late in 2006 and became part of the first team squad.
  • He scored in his first ever UEFA Champions League final with Liverpool against Milan. Kuyt scored several important goals for Liverpool elsewhere, including seven goals in the 2007–08 Champions League, including a goal in the quarter-final against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium and in the semi-final against Chelsea, and two penalty kicks against Everton in the derby the same season.
  • He scored his first hat-trick for Liverpool against Manchester United in March 2011.
  • After coming on as a substitute, his extra time goal at Wembley for Liverpool against Cardiff City in the 2012 League Cup Final helped win the trophy for Liverpool, and was also his only trophy as a Liverpool player. Kuyt made his international debut in 2004 and has represented the Netherlands at five major international tournaments, the 2006, 2010, and 2014 FIFA World Cups and the 2008 and 2012 UEFA European Championships.
  • On 3 October 2014, he announced his retirement from international football.Kuyt announced his retirement from football on 17 May 2017, having scored a hat-trick in the last game of the season to secure Feyenoord their first title since 1999 three days earlier.
  • Kuyt came out of retirement on 6 April 2018, to help out Quick Boys, where he already was the assistant-manager, to fix their shortage on strikers for the remainder of the season.

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