Today is International Workers' Day. In the world of football, many players have a style that can be called a model worker on the pitch, they seem to be running all the time, never stopping, maybe simple and unpretentious, but they are hard-working. Dutchman Dirk Kuyt is the tireless model worker on the pitch.
On October 13 last year, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, after the Netherlands' 3-0 victory over Germany in the UEFA Group Stage, the Dutch Football Association specially held a national team farewell ceremony for van der Vaart and Kuyt, two meritorious players. In front of Kuyt is his no. 15 shirt, a number he wore as a full-back.
At the 2014 World Cup, Kuyt, who had no chance to play in the first two group matches, made his debut against Chile and was placed at the left wing-back by Van Gaal. In the knockout rounds, Kuit became the team's absolute main force, playing all 420 minutes of the game, from left wing-back to right wing-back, the 34-year-old worked hard and played freely in penalty shootouts against Costa Rica and Argentina.
From the striker to the defensive sluice, Kuyt completed his mission and eventually finished third in the World Cup with the Netherlands. Duan Xuan, a World Cup commentator at the time, said of Kuyt, "In the World Cup, the players want to shine like pearls. But Kuyt's style is like dirt, and he wants his teammates to go up and step on it. ”
Kuyt can sacrifice himself for the benefit of the team, from centre forward to winger, from full-back to full-back, he is a blonde model and an orange-clad warrior. On 3 October 2014, he announced his retirement from the Dutch national team. 10 years of national team career, left 104 games, 24 goals, participated in 3 World Cups, 2 European Championships.
In the summer of 2015, South Africa's World Cup Dutch meritorious captain Van Bronkhorst took over Feijenoord, and the main winger of the World Cup sub-army, Kuit, also returned from Turkey to where he became famous.
The return of the Kuit Sword is not old. In the 15/16 season, Kuyt scored 19 goals in 32 league games, helping Feyenoord win the Dutch Cup. In the 16/17 season, Feyenoord led Ajax by one point before the end of the Dutch first division, and won the championship.
In this game, Feyenoord's 37-year-old captain used a hat-trick to help the team win to win the first league title in 18 years.
Kuyt, 37, scored 12 goals in 31 appearances in his final Eredivisie season, as well as a hat-trick in the Dutch Cup. In five seasons, he completed his league 100-goal milestone for Feyenoord, and finally ended with a league championship trophy. These 5 seasons also recorded the fame and farewell of Kuyt's career.
In 2003, at the age of 23, Kuyt joined Feyenoord from his debut Utrecht. In the 03-06 season, Kuyt scored 71 Dutch League goals, and the number of league goals exceeded 20+ in all three seasons, which fully demonstrated his offensive talent.
In August 2006, Kuyt landed at Anfield to join Liverpool, where he stayed for most of his career highlights. Kuyt is Benitez's trusted favourite, who moves between wingers, shadow strikers and centre forwards to serve the tactics of liverpool as a whole.
With few injuries, Kuyt maintains a high attendance at Liverpool. His excellent physical qualities, working as a wingman in Liverpool's attacking group and charging up when his teammates were injured, this extremely high tactical adaptability made him popular with Reds fans.
With 71 goals in 285 games, it is not very efficient, and the stars are not as good as their frontline teammates Torres and Suarez, but Kuyt is also a jewel of Liverpool. Hat-wearing against Manchester United, defeating Everton and scoring a header in the final moments of the Champions League final are all happy memories that Kuyt left for Reds fans.
At the Orange, Kuyt was less talented than the four talents of the same period, but he was the fastest player in Dutch history to complete the 100-game milestone.
Hard-working, hard-working, unpretentious and rarely injured, Kuyt is often seen as a standard sapper. But he was also a sapper with a clear brain, able to run, able to run, able to grab, not dirty. The excellent sense of position also made many people evaluate him, and he was a rare all-attack and all-defensive player at that time.
Although he retired for nearly two years, the football story that belonged to Kuyt is still worth remembering. There is a philosophy of football that is to complete others, to become a global team, and finally to complete oneself in a way that sacrifices oneself.