Ruud Gullit

Ruud Gullit was born on September 1, 1962 in Amsterdam, Holland. For a Dutch boy having a trial with Ajax is a dream. Being rejected by the best football school in Europe, as happened to Gullit, it can turn into a nightmare.

Ruud Gullit kept trying and Haarlem was accepted. The scouts knew the young libero discover the potential of one of the best players that Holland has in all times.The first step they took was to change position. Gullit played back then libero, a position that did not take advantage of their best qualities, speed (11 seconds in the 100 meters). Ruud abandon that position and would not perform it until the end of his career, when he took the role of coach and player Chelsea.Despite the surplus of stars, the Dutch football can recognize emerging talent and three years after debuting in Haarlem Gullit was organized

by the Dutch national team.From Haarlem went to Feyenoord in 1982 and then to PSV in 1985 before finally leaving Dutch football. Marching towards the Italian league in 1987, Gullit left behind him three league titles Netherlands (with Feyenoord in 1984 and PSV in 1986 and 1987) and a Cup (with Feyenoord in 1984). Call of AC Milan, backed by five million dollars was too powerful to ignore.The draft Sacchi and Berlusconi was based on the Dutch talent. Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard were the base of that triangle that shocked Europe Milan and destroyed every opponent that stood in their way.If Van Basten was the dagger that historic Milan, Gullit was the spirit, the computer base and shaft made it work. Skillful,

intelligent, endowed with great class and arrival at goal, Gullit was voted European Player of the Year in 1988, where he won the European Championship with the Netherlands and the Italian League with Milan (win two more league in 1992 and 1993 and two European Cups and two Intercontinental Cups in 1989 and 1990).Rivals breathed easier when Gullit Holland announced he would not go to the U.S. World 1994. In a difficult decision to understand, Ruud Gullit Holland deprived of their best player, himself, altering the course of that World Cup in Holland once again did not succeed.After a brief and fleeting passage by Sampdoria, where he won the Italian Cup in 1994, the black tulip returned to Milan. A little later he heard another call, this time Chelsea. There again played libero, reprising the role of his youth and started a new career, technical alternated with a season

player. In England left another title, the FA Cup in 1997, as in Holland and Italy before. Throughout his career, mark 235 goals in 629 official matches.His playing career is over but the coach has only just begun.It has already trained the English Newcastle, Feyenoord and the Dutch national teams of Holland base.