Virgil van Dijk
Virgil van Dijk is the only defender in the history of football to ever win the UEFA Player of the Year award and considered as one of the best football defenders ever. The Dutch professional footballer plays for the English Premier Club Liverpool and is their chief orchestrator at the back, and also the captain of the Netherlands national team.
Professional life
Van Dijk started his career at Dutch club Groningen in 2010. In 2013, he signed for Scottish club Celtic FC, where he won his first titles and was nominated as the Player of the Year. In 2018, he joined Liverpool for a record-breaking fee of £75 million dollars. He played two
Champions League finals in his first two seasons and won the competition in 2019. Van Dijk later won the FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup.
On the international level, Virgil van Dijk played his first match for the Dutch senior team in 2015. He played in Euro 2016 and then for the 2018 World Cup and was given the Captaincy of Netherlands by Ronald Koeman in 2019.
Personal life
Virgil Van Dijk tied the knot with childhood sweetheart, Rike Nootigedagt and has been blessed with a baby girl named Nila, born in 2014, and Jadi, born in 2016.
Van Dijk commonly uses only his first name on the kit because he doesn’t have a good relationship with his father Ron van Dijk. It’s said that Ron van Dijk abandoned his mother and left him behind in childhood.
Van Dijk has Chinese ancestry. Hellen Fo Sieeuw, his mother, is of part-Chinese descent.
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