Ricky van Wolfswinkel

Ricky van Wolfswinkel is the kind of footballer I find oddly compelling. A 185 cm striker from Woudenberg, he played top-flight ball in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, Spain and Switzerland, a passport few strikers can match. Two Dutch caps is a modest tally, but proving yourself across that many leagues takes real grit, since adapting to new countries and styles is brutal. I'm always more intrigued by the wandering journeyman than the one-club loyalist, and Wolfswinkel's restless, border-crossing career is the sort of story I can't help rooting for.

Name (English)

Ricky van Wolfswinkel

Name (Japanese)

リッキー・ファン・ウォルフスウィンケル

Reading

りっきー・ふぁん・うぉるふすうぃんける

Born

January 27, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Woudenberg, Utrecht, Netherlands

Height

185 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20van%20Wolfswinkel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251966

Tags

• Utrecht
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-23

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.