- Signed from PSV Eindhoven in July 2001 for £19,000,000
- Averages 37 goals per season.
- Began his career at Dutch club FC Den Bosch.
- His 12 penalties in the 2002-2003 season is a club record.
- He broke the Premiership record for scoring in consecutive league games, scoring eight goals in a row from 12/12/01 to 19/1/02.
- When he started playing he was a midfielder.
- was officially the most expensive player in Britain for a mere 11 days, from 1st July 2001 to 12th July. His £19 million fee was surpassed by United's purchase of Juan Veron for £28.1 million.
- Voted Dutch player of the year by fellow professionals in 2000.
- Signed for Manchester United on his birthday 2001.
- An Achilles tendon injury kept him out for 3 months, when he returned to the squad he was never the same.
- Has began the 2005/06 season in great form by scoring in all of his games.
- Childhood hero was Dutch Legend 'Marco Van Basten'.
- Has appeared in several Nike adverts.
- Has scored 6 hat tricks for Manchester United since moving from PSV.
- Made his international debut for Holland in a 1-1 draw with Germany.
- Was named the PFA player of the year in his first season at Manchester United.
- He scored 29 goals season 1999/2000
- He was bought to PSV Einhoven in 1998 and finished as the top scorer of 31 goals
- In 2002/2003 season he scored total 44 goals for Manchester United
- Captained Manchester United for the first time against Lile in the Champions League.
- He has scored 43 goals in 53 games (December 2005)
- Barclaycard Premiership Top-scorer 2002/03.
- Became the first player to score in eight consecutive Premiership games.
- Scored first hat-trick for Man United on 22/12/2001 against Southampton.
- UUFA 2003 Best Striker Award with 12 goals.
- Equalled Denis Law's 28-goal European scoring record with a goal against Stuttgart on 09/12/2003.
- Came 6th in the Fifa Player Of The Year award in 2003.
- Named in Uefa's Team Of The Year 2003.
- Can speak fluent Dutch, English, German and French
- League Cup Winner 2006.
- He and wife Leontine Slaats are expecting their first baby together.
- Ended the 2005/06 season by making 39 appearances 8 as a sub and finished the highest club goal scorer for the 5th time in a row by scoring 24 goals.
- He played for Netherlands in the 2006 FIFA World Cup of soccer.
- Daughter Moa, born September 26, 2006.
- Has played 62 games in Champions League and has scored 79 goals March 2007.
- He scored 25 goals in La Liga season 2006/2007 and 5 goals in the Champions League.
- Left Manchester United to go to Real Madrid in summer 2006.
- Between 1998 and 2007, he played 59 matches for the Dutch national soccer team in which he scored 30 goals.
- La Liga winner 2007/2008.
- He scored 16 goals in La Liga and 4 goals in the Champions League season 2007/2008.
- Member of Real Madrid team who won the Spanish League season 2006/2007 after the game against Majorca (Real Madrid 3 - Majorca 1) (June 2007)
- Playing for Manchester United Football Club (April 2005)
- About to start his 5th season at Old Trafford. (August 2005)
- In line to come back into the Man Utd first team after three months out with an ankle injury for the Champions League tie with AC Milan (February 2005)
- Soccer club HSV Hamburg, Germany. They play in the Bundesliga. (2010)
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