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Pierre van Hooijdonk (Dutch pronunciation: [piˈjɛr vɑn ˈɦoːidɔŋk]; [citation needed] born 29 November 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. He had spells with clubs across Europe where he was a prolific goal scorer.
Nov 23, 2016 · The forward made plenty of headlines during a sometimes controversial career – his three-month strike at Nottingham Forest remains one of the most infamous sagas in Premier League history – but the...
Dec 14, 2023 · PIERRE van Hooijdonk cut a popular figure inside Celtic Park last night as two of his former clubs met in the Champions League.
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Fullname: Pierre van Hooijdonk aka: Huggy, PvH Height: 6ft 4′ Weight: 13 stone Born: 29 Nov 1969 Birthplace: Steenbergen, Netherlands Signed: 11 Jan 1995 Left: 10 Mar 1997 Position: Centre-Forward Debut: Celtic 1-1 Hearts, League 11 January 1995 Internationals: Netherlands International Caps: 40International Goals: 12
When Tommy Burns signed Pierre van Hooijdonk in January 1995 (after being hunted down by Davie Hay) for £1.2 million, he signed a genuine quality player. It is thought that 5,000 extra supporters turned out to see his debut against Hearts, and he rewarded their presence with a goal described as a “a rare gem in a field of rock” by one journalist, a...
In 2014, ex-Rangers goalkeeper Andy Goram, when opening a pub, spoke of an altercation with Pierre van Hooijdonk in a Celtic v Rangers match in 1996. He told a cheering group of Rangers fans that when he saved the Dutchman’s penalty in that game he went up to him and called him – and he was paraphrasing here – “a non-white, unclean, non-Protestant ...
Daily Record 24 May 2013 PIERRE VAN HOOIJDONK last night claimed Rangers had been guilty of financial doping as he compared them to Tour de France drug cheats. The former Celtic striker has no sympathy for the Ibrox side after watching them tumble to the Third Division following a financial implosion. The Dutchman was part of the Hoops side that fi...
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/13/pierre-van-hooijdonk-nottingham-forest-celtic-netherlands-ron-atkinson The Dutch striker on his time at Nottingham Forest, Celtic and returning to Glasgow to pay tribute to Fernando Ricksen @michaelbutler18 Sun 13 Oct 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 13 Oct 2019 12.20 BST Pierre van Hooijd...
Dec 28, 2018 · He played at Parkhead at a time when their Glasgow rivals were lavishing millions of pounds on renowned international stars like Paul Gascoigne and Brian Laudrup and his side were unable to wrest the Scottish title from their grasp due to that superior spending power.
A goal-machine and set-piece expert, van Hooijdonk made his name with Dutch clubs RBC Roosendaal and NAC Breda before making the move to Celtic in 1995. The 6'4″ forward played 69 times in the league and scored 44-goals for the Scottish giants before making the move to Nottingham Forest in 1997.
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Pausing only to recommend the club sign his international colleague Wim Jonk (who subsequently joined Sheffield Wednesday instead), Van Hooijdonk had a transfer request turned down, muttered darkly about not being a slave and embarked upon a one-man strike.
