Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp; born 10 May 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer, who is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax. Originally a wide midfielder, Bergkamp was moved to main striker and then to second striker, where he remained throughout his playing career. Bergkamp has been described by Jan Mulder as having "the finest technique" of any Dutch international and a "dream for a striker" by teammate Thierry Henry...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth10 May 1969
CityAmsterdam, Netherlands
In the past few weeks, you can see that the spirit and the football are coming back.
We created some chances in the first half and the sending-off made it difficult for us to get going. They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.
I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?
Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.
People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.
You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.