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Dennis Bergkamp Biography

Dennis Bergkamp

Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɛnəs ˈbɛrxkɑmp] ( listen); born 10 May 1969) is a former Dutch professional footballer, who until 21 December 2017 was the assistant manager 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.

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The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled

Fall, Space, Training, Filled, Leave

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

Coach, Football, Lose, Sports, Successful

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

Champions League, League, Overall, Sports, Thinking, Thoughts

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

Clubs, Doe, Matter, Money, People, Show

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Arsenal, Clubs, Gunners, My Thoughts, Sign, Thoughts

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.

Club, Football, Found, Player, Soccer, Sports

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

Football, France, Player, Sex, Spain, Top

I really like Arsenal. But you, do you like Arsenal? Or just Arsenal with Trophies?

Arsenal, Like, Trophies

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.

Back, Come, Football, People, Years

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Atmosphere, Attacking, Football, Sports, Time

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

Course, Different, England, Goal, Known, Mean

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?

Goalkeeper, Nice, People, Right, Space

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Ball, Being Sad, Ends, Football, Pitch, Sports

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.

Arsene, Football, Hurt, Team

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.

Acceleration, Defender, Football, Past, Take, Thinking

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

Difficult, Job, Jobs, Seen, Time, Would Be

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Advertising, Clubs, Round, Sign, Took, Way

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Goal, Matter, Miss, Missing, Want

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

Beating, Compliment, Down, Sports, Together, Two