Pierre van Hooijdonk

Pierre van Hooijdonk is one of those strikers I will always remember for sheer presence. At 193 cm he was a towering target man, but what set him apart was a ferocious finishing instinct and those thunderous free kicks. Forty-six caps and fourteen goals for the Netherlands, across a World Cup and two European Championships, mark him as a genuine big-game scorer. I admire how he found the net wherever he went across Europe, never just along for the ride. There is romance in a kid from small-town Steenbergen becoming that decisive, and I still relish that kind of game-changer.

Name (English)

Pierre van Hooijdonk

Name (Japanese)

ピエール・ファン・ホーイドンク

Reading

ぴえーる・ふぁん・ほーいどんく

Born

November 29, 1969 (age 56)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

Origin

Steenbergen, North Brabant, Netherlands

Height

193 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20van%20Hooijdonk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312659

Tags

• North Brabant
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.