MARCO VAN BASTEN THE GENIUS.

Marco Van Basten was born on 31/10/1964.In the city of Utrecht. Holland.He is considered by many as the greatest footballer Holland has ever produced after Johan Cruiff.His first senior club he played for was Ajax of Amsterdam, he played for the club from the year 1982 to the year 1987,he played 133 games and scored a total of 128 goals which is extremley good.
He then was sold to A.C.Milan in the year1987, and the following yearRuud Gullit along with Frank Raijkard came and along with Maldini, Baresi andPapin Milan was quite a different team altogether and they won their first Scudetto in eight years.And the three of them were called the flying Dutch men.
In the 1988 Euro cup he scored a hattrick verses England awonderous goal verses West Germany in the semifinal.And spectacular volley against tthe Soviet Union.Marco Van Basten scored a total of eight goals in the tournament and nobody scored more then two goals in the Euro 88. Holland went on to win the Euro 88 Cup. Even as they yearly prduce good footballers , but to this day they have won only one major trophy the Euro88 Cup.
The 1990 world cup in Italy was a poor one Holland lost to West Germany in the second round. In the year 1991 Marco Van Basten fell out with the then coach Argo Sachi, and to keep the flying Dutch men at Milan. The owner Beruslconi sacked Sachi.
In the 1992 Holland lost to Denmark the final winner in the semifinal penalty shootout.Denmark was a suprise team as they replaced Yugoslavia who were expelled due to the cival war and attrocaties comitted by politicians.
In November 1992 in a champion league match between A.C. Milan verses I.F.K. Gothenberg he scored a total of four goals, that record was equalled by Simone Inzaghi in the year 2000. And Dado Prso in the year 2004.
He been awarded the Europen footballer of the yearon three different times. Theonly other footballers to have won the Europen footballer of the year three times are Johan Cruiff and Michel Platini.
He was very badly hurt by a sliding tackle from the back . Even after a operation on the ankle failed to respond to treatment . Even after a second operation thyere was no improvement, so Marco Van Basten sat out for a period of over two years .But during these two years A.C.Milan payed his weekly salary. He then sadly admitted that he wold never ever play football again and sadly retired. It was after this incident that F.I.F.A brought the rule that any tackling from the back and sliding into a players leg will be a yellow card.So no other players career should be cut short like his career was cut short.
In march 2007 named Marco Van Basten as the number one player whose career was cut short.
As a manager he has coached both Holland and Ajax.