* 1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer

** Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer

With world class players like Raúl, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Gonzalo Higuain, Real Madrid won back to back La Liga titles in 2006 – 07 and 2007 – 08 season.

The city has one professional football club, FC Den Bosch ( first club of Dutch international player Ruud van Nistelrooy ), and is also the home to top field hockey club HC Den Bosch, basketball team EiffelTowers Den Bosch and 2008 national rugby champion The Dukes

Van Basten was heavily criticised for dropping Ruud van Nistelrooy ( who had scored 28 goals for the Netherlands ) before this game, in favour of Dirk Kuyt, who did not score throughout the entire tournament.

In May 2007, Van Basten announced the end of his long-running dispute with Real Madrid forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had previously declared never to play for a Dutch national squad with Van Basten as its manager.

PSV garnered many honours in the football arena and have been credited as the club where many successful players such as Ruud Gullit, Hans van Breukelen, Gerald Vanenburg, Romário, Eric Gerets, Ronald Koeman, Ronaldo, Luc Nilis, Wim Kieft, Jaap Stam, Boudewijn Zenden, Arthur Numan, Wim Jonk, Danko Lazović, Balázs Dzsudzsák, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Phillip Cocu, Ibrahim Afellay, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Park Ji-Sung, Jefferson Farfán, Heurelho Gomes, Alex, Eiður Guðjohnsen, Mateja Kežman, and Arjen Robben made their name.

Thanks to Diego Milito's 23 goals in 2006 – 07 ( he finished third to Roma's Francesco Totti and Real Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy-26 and 25 goals, respectively-in the European Golden Shoe race ), Real Zaragoza finished in sixth position, thus qualifying to the UEFA Cup.

On March 30, 2012 De Jong and several other prominent CDA members, including fellow former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs Hans van den Broek, Pieter Kooijmans and Ben Bot.

The four aldermen of Geertruidenberg are Ruud van den Belt ( Keerpunt 74 ), Lida Verschuren-van Strien ( CDA ), Wim Quirijnen ( Partij Samenwerking ), and Albert Smit ( Uw 3 Kernen ).

The College van burgemeester en wethouders consists of mayor Amy Koopmanschap and the four aldermen Lex Scholten ( PvdA ), Ruud Grondel ( GroenLinks ), Jeannette Pietersen ( D66 ), Maïta van der Mark ( SP ), one of each coalition party.

Manchester United's attack was as strong as ever thanks to free-scoring Ruud van Nistelrooy, but the midfield was weakened following the pre-season £ 25 million sale of David Beckham to Real Madrid, and the centre of defence suffered a more severe setback after Rio Ferdinand was ruled out for the final four months of the season after being found guilty of the " failure or refusal to take a drugs test ".

From left to right: Wim Kok, Dries van Agt, Piet de Jong, Mark Rutte, Ruud Lubbers, and Jan Peter Balkenende.

Rutgerus Johannes Martinus " Ruud " van Nistelrooij (; born 1 July 1976 ) is a retired Dutch footballer.

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On 10 March 2008, Ruud de Wild started presenting the morning-show on Dutch radio station Q-Music, again called Ruuddewild. nl.

For the 1996 – 1997 season, Hoddle was replaced by Ruud Gullit who handed Colgan his first team professional debut playing in a 3 – 2 away defeat at the hands of West Ham United on 12 March 1997.

He retired in 1953 with 148 career goals ( good for 9th in team history ) in 343 appearances, with just two goals behind Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Birger Ruud had won the gold medal in the ski jumping event at both the 1932 and 1936 Winter Games.

It was during his time at DWS that Ruud first took to using his father's surname, rather than his registered surname, as he thought it sounded more like a football player.

Ruud Lubbers at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 1993.

Sunderland also achieved a 2 – 1 victory over rivals Newcastle United at St. James ' Park, a result which helped bring about the resignation of Newcastle's manager, Ruud Gullit.

The EVS was conducted under the aegis of Jan Kerkhofs and Ruud de Moor and continues to be based in the Netherlands at the Tilburg University.

Yallop was replaced at Los Angeles by Ruud Gullit, who signed a three-year contract with the club which made him the highest paid coach in MLS history.

In May 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film " Topor and Me ", written by Ruud Den Dryver.

On a positive note, Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy lived up to his £ 19million price tag by scoring 34 goals in all competitions during his first season at Old Trafford-breaking the club record that had been set by Dennis Viollet 40 seasons earlier.

***-Manchester United beat Fulham 3-0 at Old Trafford, with Ruud van Nistelrooy scoring all three goals, to go top of the Premier League just three weeks after their title hopes had appeared dead.

Additionally, when Louis van Gaal took over at Barcelona for Bobby Robson, he was dropped from the team in favour of the manager's countryman Ruud Hesp, being subsequently loaned in mid-season back to Porto, filling the position some said he had " haunted " since his departure, as several goalkeepers had failed to perform in that position.

At PSV, he played as a left winger and as forward because of his quick pace and direct passing, teaming up with Arnold Bruggink and at times, with Ruud van Nistelrooy.

After Keegan resigned, McDermott stayed at Newcastle for a further season under Kenny Dalglish but left Newcastle when Dalglish resigned and replacement Ruud Gullit decided to bring in his own coach.

Arnesen spent 10 years as director of football at PSV Eindhoven, and was credited with discovering major talents, such as Brazilian striker Ronaldo and Dutch players Jaap Stam, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Arjen Robben.

In Øyeblikk (" Moments ") Juve describes memorable moments, such as when Birger Ruud won the men's downhill at the 1936 Winter Olympics, while Laila Schou Nilsen won the women's downhill.

Louis van Gaal, who coached Barça at that time, also signed many Dutch World Cup players such as Frank de Boer, Ronald de Boer, Patrick Kluivert, Boudewijn Zenden, Ruud Hesp, Michael Reiziger, Winston Bogarde, as well as Marc Overmars in 2000 and the Spanish team, who was soon nicknamed " Oranje Barcelona " or " Ajax Barcelona ", were crowned league champions in 1997-1998 and 1998-1999.

In 1998 Clarke joined Newcastle United as assistant manager to Ruud Gullit, his former boss at Chelsea.

The club turned to Ruud Kaiser, a Dutchman with a good reputation at youth level, as Geyer's replacement.

Manager at the time Ruud Gullit appeared to see Harper worthy of playing over Given.

Ruud attended high school at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Ruud played college football at the University of Nebraska.

Keys had been caught making a series of sexual references about Jamie Redknapp's ex-girlfriend as the pair sat in a studio with Graeme Souness and Ruud Gullit before a game at Stamford Bridge.

Ruud was supposed to light the Olympic Flame at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, but had to forfeit due to heart complications immediately before the event.

Although their last hit was in 1971, they continued to perform together up until Ruud de Wolff died at the end of year 2000.