Romano Joël Denneboom (born 29 January 1981) is a Dutch former professional

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Born in

Schiedam Schiedam () is a large town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands. It is located in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, west of the city Rotterdam, east of the town Vlaardingen and south of the city Delft. In the south, Schi ...

, Denneboom began his career in amateur football with Hekelingen and VV Spijkenisse. After turning professional in 1998 with

Heerenveen Heerenveen (, ) is a town and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Friesland (Fryslân), in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, the town had a population of 29,790 (1 January) while the m ...

, Denneboom has also played in the Netherlands for Willem II,

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...

Twente Twente ( , Tweants dialect: ''Tweante'') is a region in the eastern Netherlands. It encompasses the most urbanised and easternmost part of the province of Overijssel. Twente is most likely named after the Tuihanti or Tvihanti, a Germanic people ...

and

Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands. Sparta currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top flig ...

. While playing for NEC in July 2004, Denneboom turned down a chance to sign for Scottish team

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as his wife was due to give birth. After leaving

in the summer of 2010, Denneboom went on trial at

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club Hibernian in August 2010. By September 2010, the potential move to Hibernian stalled over the length of the contract on offer. On 11 January 2011, Denneboom signed with

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia is most well known as ...

until the end of the season. On 16 November 2011, it was reported that he was on trial with

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International career

Denneboom made one international appearance for Netherlands national team in a friendly against

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on 3 September 2004. During this match he was replaced at half time by Dirk Kuyt, who also made his first international appearance.

References

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