Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
b. 1983
Dutch association football player (born 1983)
- Born
- 12 Aug 1983 · Voor-Drempt
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 12 Aug 1983BornBorn in Voor-Drempt
- 2001 – 2002TeamNetherlands national under-19 football team
- 2002 – 2006TeamNetherlands national under-21 football team
- 2002 – 2004TeamPSV Eindhoven
- 2003TeamDe Graafschap
- 2003 – 2004TeamAGOVV Apeldoorn
- 2004 – 2005TeamSC Heerenveen
- 2006 – 2008TeamAFC Ajax
- 2006AwardAFC Ajax–player of the year
- 2006 – 2015TeamNetherlands national association football team
- 2009TeamReal Madrid Club de Fútbol
- 2009 – 2010TeamAC Milan
- 2010Took part2010 FIFA World Cup
- 2010 – 2017TeamSchalke 04
- 2014Took part2014 FIFA World Cup
- 2017 – 2021TeamAFC Ajax
- 2021TeamSchalke 04
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1983 – today).
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2023Gaza war
- 20242024 Summer Olympics
- 20262026 Iran war
Biography
Dirk Jan Klaas Huntelaar (born 12 August 1983), known professionally as Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌklaːˈɕjɑn ˈɦʏntəlaːr] ), is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Huntelaar played for PSV, De Graafschap, AGOVV Apeldoorn, Heerenveen, Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan, before joining Schalke 04 in August 2010, for whom he was the top goalscorer in the 2011–12 Bundesliga with 29 league goals. Huntelaar is also Schalke's second highest goalscorer of all time, behind Klaus Fischer.
Huntelaar was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and Ajax "Player of the Year" in 2006, and was a part of the Dutch side that won the 2006 UEFA U-21 Championship where he became the tournament's leading goalscorer and received the player of the tournament award. He was also named as one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. He is the all-time top scorer of the Netherlands U-21 national team with 18 goals in 23 appearances.
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