Принято считать, что идеальных игроков нет в nature. But if they did exist, one of the first on this list would be Netherlands striker Marco van Basten. He was born on the last day of October 1964 in the small Dutch town of Utrecht, in a sports family. His father was a pretty famous footballer, my mother professionally engaged in gymnastics. The future star of Dutch football was in the sports section right from the street. More precisely, Dad noticed that his son quite easily in street battles defeated his older comrades, and decided to teach him to football.
What made Marco van Basten famous? The best goals in the history of world football belong to him. But let's talk about everything in order.
The first steps in the football field Marco vanBasten did in the amateur club Elsnquijk. Later on a thirteen-year-old boy was noticed by the famous football specialist Leo Behanhacker, who at that time headed the youthful composition of the Rotterdam Feyenoord. But the father, who naturally took all the important decisions for the boy, decided that it was too early for him to leave his native city. For this reason, Van Basten Sr. rejected this rather tempting proposal. He explained to his son that he would definitely become famous in the future, but only speaking for "Ajax".
At the age of fourteen the child hadfound serious health problems. The attending physician forbade him to play football. Or at least significantly reduce the intensity of training. The father, understanding the state of the child, after visiting the doctor, suggested trying to forget this conversation. Marco believed his father. And he became one of the famous football players. True, at that moment it was still very far away. At that time, the boy often woke up at night from severe pain in the ankles.
And finally my father's dream came true - young MarcoVan Bassin went to the football field in a t-shirt "Ajax". In those years, the great Johan Cruyff himself shone in this famous Amsterdam club. It should be noted that in this debut match for the young Dutchman, which took place in the first days of April 1982 at the famous Amsterdam stadium “De Meer”, he replaced the highly experienced Cruyff during the meeting with “Neumengen”. They say that the veteran himself asked the coach to replace Marco with him instead. Having entered the field, the young talent fully justified the trust of senior comrades by becoming the author of one of the goals scored in this match. “Ajax” truly became the team in which Marco from a young budding player turned into a dangerous striker. He played horror at the players of the defense teams of the opponents. In many ways, he was helped by twenty lessons of football skills at the Johann Football Academy, and that was how many joint matches they had.
В следующем сезоне девятнадцатилетний нападающий scores 26 goals and for the first time becomes the winner in the scorer of the national football championship. This happened in the now distant 1984. In the same year, another significant event happened in the life of a young striker. According to the results of the championship, he was awarded the “Silver Boot”.
В трёх следующих сезонах он из года в год wins the debate among top scorers in the dutch soccer championship. In the 1986 season, 37 times, hitting the opponents' goal, Marco for the first time in his football career became the owner of the Golden Boot. And next season he, together with the team, wins his first international trophy, becomes the winner of the Cup Winners tournament.
Имея на вооружении потрясающую координацию, adding to this an excellent vision of the field, the young striker not only himself repeatedly sent balls to the opponents' goal, but also often supplied his partners with excellent passes. It is worth noting that with the game projectile, he treated very elegantly, even if it can be said elegantly. In short, it was an attacker from God. Marco van Basten scored very beautiful and spectacular goals. Many of them fit forever in football history.
The next stage of this football careera great player was moving to Italy. There he decided to test himself in the composition of one of the strongest at that time Italian club “Milan”. For the rights to this magnificent master of the leather ball, then simply “ridiculous” money was paid by today's standards. Namely, one million US dollars. For this amount, the Milan football club received a player who the following year was named the best footballer in Europe. True, in his debut season, as part of his new team, Van Basten played only eleven matches, scoring only three goals. But these were the best goals of Marco van Basten. They were very valuable. One of them is hammered into the gate of Empoli. He allowed his team to overtake “Napoli”, in which such a football star as Diego Maradona sparkled. Another goal of Marco van Basten flew into the gates of the Neapolitan club itself. He turned out to be golden at all, as he allowed Milan to win gold medals and a victory in the championship.
At the European Championships, held in 1988 atmagnificent German stadiums, head coach of the national team of the Netherlands Rinus Michels in the first matches preferred to use more experienced strikers. But after three goals scored by Marco van Basten to the English, he radically changed the decision and made a bet on this striker. Admittedly, he was not mistaken. This is confirmed by the magnificent goal, which Marco van Basten scored in the European Championship final. The USSR will forever remember this tremendous blow, which has broken hopes for the championship of millions of Soviet fans. Later, this goal will be recognized by football experts as one of the most beautiful in world football history.
С "Миланом" Ван Бастен добился больших успехов и won a lot of prizes and a variety of football titles. In this list, a special place is occupied by the Champions Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. Three times Van Basten received the most authoritative football award "Golden Ball". The magnificent master spent his final match on May 26, 1993 on the field of the Munich Olympic Stadium in the presence of 60,000 spectators.
In June 1993, not far from his nativefamous footballer Marco van Basten tied the knot in the halls of the ancient castle Heiserlen. His wife became Lisbeth van de Kappelevin. They have two wonderful daughters - Jessica and Angela. At the marriage ceremony attended by relatives and friends of the newlyweds. Later, the bridegroom comrades congratulated the newlyweds.
