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Giovanni Christiaan "Gio" van Bronckhorst (born 5 February 1975) is a Dutch
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manager and former player who last managed
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club
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. Originally a
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, he moved to
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later in his career. During his club career, Van Bronckhorst played for RKC Waalwijk,
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, Rangers,
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,
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and again with Feyenoord. He was an instrumental player in Barcelona's
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victory, being in the starting line-up of the
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, having played every Champions League match for Barcelona that season. Van Bronckhorst earned 106
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for the Netherlands national team, and played for his country in three
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s, in
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, as well as three UEFA European Championships, in
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and
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. After captaining the ''Oranje'' in the 2010 World Cup final, he was elected into the
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. The 2010 World Cup final was the last match in his career. After assisting the Dutch under-21 team and Feyenoord, Van Bronckhorst became Feyenoord manager in May 2015. He won the
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in his first season and the club's first
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title for 18 years in 2017. In November 2021, he returned to Rangers as manager, reaching the Europa League
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and winning the
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in his first official match.


Club career


Early career

Van Bronckhorst began playing for a local amateur youth team in Rotterdam, Linker Maas Oever, from age six. He joined the youth academy at
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the following year. In 1990, aged 15, the club offered him a professional contract, which he accepted. He won the Dutch Youth League with Feyenoord in 1991, but struggled to break into the first team. He was loaned out to RKC Waalwijk, making his league debut in 1993. He returned to Feyenoord for the 1994–95 season, but was used as a fringe player, making only ten appearances for the club. 1995–96 was his breakthrough season, as he started almost every match for Feyenoord, playing alongside the likes of Regi Blinker, Jean-Paul van Gastel and Henrik Larsson. Domestically, with Feyenoord failing to break the PSV
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stranglehold on the Eredivisie for the fourth-straight year, and major players such as Henrik Larsson leaving the team, Van Bronckhorst began to search for a new club. He chose to join
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(his former manager at international U-16 and U-18 level) at Rangers, joining the club in 1998 for a reported transfer fee between £5–5.5 million.


Rangers

In Van Bronckhorst's first competitive game for Rangers on 22 July 1998, he scored as they came from 3–0 down to win 5–3 over
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side Shelbourne at
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in the first qualifying round of the
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. He went on to score 22 goals for Rangers (13 in the league, three in the
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, three in the
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and two in the UEFA Cup), mostly in midfield, before joining
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for a fee of £8.5 million, signing a five-year contract. One of his goals was in the 2000 Scottish Cup Final which Rangers won 4–0 against
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. Opposition goalkeeper Jim Leighton was injured in the third minute without a substitute available, and striker Robbie Winters had to take his position. He was shortlisted for SPFA Player of the Year in 2000. He injured his groin on international duty that October, and returned on 3 March 2001 against Heart of Midlothian, playing for just 23 minutes of the 2–0 home win before being injured by Colin Cameron.


Arsenal

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had signed Van Bronckhorst in June 2001 for £8 million. He sought to replace the midfield void from by the departure of Emmanuel Petit from Arsenal, and so partnered
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in the centre. However, Van Bronckhorst's start at
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was marked by a cruciate knee ligament injury which saw him sidelined after only a few months at the club. Despite this, Van Bronckhorst went on to win the
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title in 2001–02, and the
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in 2001–02 and 2002–03 with Arsenal. In all, he made 64 appearances for the Gunners, scoring twice.


Barcelona

As the 2003–04 season approached, Van Bronckhorst had the opportunity to move to
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and work with its new head coach Frank Rijkaard on a one-year loan, with a view to a permanent transfer. After adapting to his new role as a left-back, he helped ''Barça'' to a revival in the second half of the season. In May 2004, Van Bronckhorst completed his move from Arsenal to Barcelona for a fee of €2 million, signing a three-year deal. He won the
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title in the 2004–05 season after some of his finest displays together with four goals to his credit. In 2005–06, he helped his club repeat as Liga champions while winning the
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as well (he was the only player who participated in all Champions League matches that season). In Spain, he used "Gio" as the name on his shirt.


Return to Feyenoord

Van Bronckhorst had a year remaining on his Barcelona contract in 2007, but returned to Feyenoord on 27 June 2007 due to a clause in his contract stipulating he could join Feyenoord on a free transfer. Shortly after, head coach
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made him captain of the club. He would go on to become a pivotal member of the squad, providing stability in an injury-hit side. At the end of his first season, he led "De Stadionclub" to win the 2007–08 KNVB Cup following a 2–0 victory in the final against Roda JC.


International career


Early years

Van Bronckhorst made his debut for the national Olympic team in 1996, although the Netherlands failed to qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games in
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. He was given his first full international cap in August 1996, being given a starting place by Guus Hiddink in the Oranje lineup to face
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in a friendly at the
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. Van Bronckhorst scored his first goal for ''Ons Oranje'' in August 1996 at the
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against
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. He was part of the Netherlands squad for the
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, but did not play during the tournament. He only saw limited action in
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on home soil, as cover for left-back Arthur Numan.


Euro 2004 and 2006 World Cup

Van Bronckhorst (who was regularly played as a midfielder at club level at the time) was deployed by manager Dick Advocaat as a left-back at
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. The Netherlands reached the semi-finals of the tournament, only to fall to hosts
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. Van Bronckhorst was a regular in the national team for the 2006 World Cup qualification campaign. In the round of 16 match against Portugal (see Battle of Nuremberg), he received a
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in a match that saw four red cards given, a World Cup record.


Euro 2008

Van Bronckhorst scored in a Euro 2008 qualifying match against
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on 28 March 2007. The Netherlands went on to win the match by 1–0. On 9 June 2008, in a group match against
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, he cleared the ball off his own line, ran deep into the Italian half, then delivered a cross to Dirk Kuyt. Kuyt then headed down to Wesley Sneijder who slotted the ball past the advancing
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. Van Bronckhorst later scored another goal to condemn the then World Cup champions to a 3–0 defeat. Prior to Euro 2008, captain
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announced his intention to retire from international football after the tournament; he played his last match as captain in the 3–1 quarter-final loss to
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. Van Bronckhorst was named Van der Sar's replacement as captain.


2010 World Cup

Van Bronckhorst was included in the Netherlands' preliminary squad for the tournament, and on 27 May 2010, Dutch manager Bert van Marwijk announced he would be part of the final squad of 23 and would serve as team captain. In the semi-final against
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, he scored the opening goal of a 3–2 win. The powerful long-range strike – which rose into goalkeeper Fernando Muslera's top left-hand corner – was widely considered one of the best goals in World Cup history. In November 2022,
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included this goal in its list of the 22 best goals. Van Bronckhorst's final match for the Netherlands and as a professional footballer came in the World Cup final against
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. He was substituted in the 105th minute for Edson Braafheid with the score 0–0, only for Andrés Iniesta to condemn the Dutch to a defeat, scoring the only goal of the match in the 116th minute. After ending the tournament as runners-up, Van Bronckhorst stated he was proud of what the team had achieved.


Managerial career


Feyenoord

Having retired at the end of the 2009–10 season prior to the 2010 World Cup, it was announced on 21 July 2011 that Van Bronckhorst would assist newly appointed Feyenoord manager
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, alongside fellow ex-Feyenoord player Jean-Paul van Gastel. Feyenoord finished the season second behind Ajax, thereby qualifying for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League. On 23 March 2015, it was announced Van Bronckhorst would be the new manager of Feyenoord after Fred Rutten would leave at the end of that season. On his managerial debut on 8 August 2015, Van Bronckhorst won 3–2 at home to
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, with the winning penalty coming from Dirk Kuyt, who had been brought back after nine years abroad. In his first full season, Van Bronckhorst led Feyenoord to win the 2015–16 KNVB Cup after the club defeated Utrecht 2–1 in the final. In his second season, Van Bronckhorst won the Eredivisie title, Feyenoord's first in 18 years. In 2017–18, Feyenoord opened the season by winning the 2017 Johan Cruyff Shield on penalties against Vitesse. On 17 December 2017, the team won 7–0 away at
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in the Rotterdam derby. The team again won the KNVB Cup, with a 3–0 final victory over
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on 22 April 2018; it was the tournament's 100th final. On 24 January 2019, Van Bronckhorst announced that he would be leaving Feyenoord after the 2018–19 season.


Guangzhou R&F

On 4 January 2020, Van Bronckhorst signed with
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side Guangzhou R&F. He came 11th in his only season, then quit in December so he could return to his family.


Rangers

On 18 November 2021, Van Bronckhorst was appointed manager of Rangers, 20 years after leaving as a player. He replaced
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. On his Rangers managerial debut, he won 2–0 at home to
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in the
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group stage; on his
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debut on 28 November, he won 3–1 at Livingston. A run of seven consecutive league wins from his debut ended with a 1–1 draw at
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on 18 January 2022, and a series of ten unbeaten league games under his management ended on 2 February with a 3–0 loss at
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, ceding first place to the rivals. Van Bronckhorst's Rangers did not recover first place in the league, which went to Celtic under their new manager Ange Postecoglou. On the European front, the team made their first continental final since
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with knockout victories over
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,
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,
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and
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. They lost the 2022 final to
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on penalties. Days later, Rangers won the
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2–0 against Hearts for their first such trophy since 2009, having earlier beaten Celtic in the semi-finals. Rangers qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage under van Bronckhorst, but then suffered six consecutive defeats in that tournament and fell nine points behind Celtic in the
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. Van Bronckhorst was sacked by Rangers on 21 November, during the
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break.


Beşiktaş

On 5 June 2024, Van Bronckhorst became the head coach of Turkish side
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, by signing a two-year deal with an option for another one-year extension. Following the team's defeat by Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League he was sacked on 30 November 2024.


Personal life

Van Bronckhorst was born in Rotterdam to Victor van Bronckhorst, an Indonesian-Dutch father, and Fransien Sapulette, an Indonesian mother of Moluccan descent. Van Bronckhorst and his wife Marieke have two sons. Giovanni and Marieke founded the Giovanni van Bronckhorst Foundation (GvB Foundation) in 2008. Based in
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, the Foundation aims to enable disadvantaged children transitioning from primary to secondary school to develop basic life skills to overcome personal and social barriers by encouraging participation in sports.


Career statistics


Club


International

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Managerial statistics


Honours


Player

Feyenoord *
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runner-up: 1996–97 *
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: 1994−95, 2007−08 *
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runner-up:
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
Rangers *
Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the Scottish football league system, top-level league competition for professional Association football, football clubs in Scotland. The league was founded in 1998, when it broke away from the Scottish Foo ...
: 1998−99, 1999−2000, runner-up: 2000–01 *
Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1998–99, 1999–2000 *
Scottish League Cup The Scottish League Cup, also known as the Premier Sports Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a football competition open to all Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) clubs. First held in 1946–47, it is the oldest national League cup in ...
: 1998–99 Arsenal *
Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...
: 2001−02, runner-up: 2002–03 *
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
: 2002–03 *
FA Community Shield The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is Football in England, English football's annual match contested at Wembley Stadium between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA ...
runner-up:
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
Barcelona *
La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ...
: 2004–05, 2005−06, runner-up: 2006–07 *
Supercopa de España The Supercopa de España, also known as the Spanish Super Cup, is a super cup tournament in Football in Spain, Spanish football. Founded in 1982 Supercopa de España, 1982 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2 ...
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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...
: 2005−06 *
UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...
runner-up:
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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FIFA Club World Cup The FIFA Club World Cup (FIFA CWC) is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA), the sport's global sports governing body, governing body. The compe ...
runner-up:
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
Netherlands *
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internatio ...
runner-up:
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...


Manager

Feyenoord *
Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
: 2016–17 *KNVB Cup: 2015–16, 2017–18 *
Johan Cruyff Shield The Johan Cruyff Shield (, ) is a football trophy in the Netherlands named after Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff, also often referred to as the Dutch Super Cup. The winner is decided in one match only, played by the winner of the national footbal ...
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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Rangers *
Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,2021–22 *
UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...
runner up: 2021–22 Beşiktaş * Turkish Super Cup:
2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...


Individual

* FIFA Puskás Award 3rd place: 2010


Orders

*Knight of the
Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau () is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has performed acts of special merits for ...
: 2010


See also

* List of footballers with 100 or more caps


References


External links

* * *
Voetbal International profile

Official website

Giovanni van Bronckhorst Foundation
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