Boudewijn Zenden
Zenden in 2005, playing for Liverpool
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Boudewijn Zenden | ||
| Date of birth | 15 August 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Maastricht, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1987 | MVV | ||
| 1987–1993 | PSV | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1998 | PSV | 112 | (32) |
| 1998–2001 | Barcelona | 64 | (2) |
| 2001–2004 | Chelsea | 43 | (4) |
| 2003–2004 | → Middlesbrough (loan) | 31 | (4) |
| 2004–2005 | Middlesbrough | 36 | (5) |
| 2005–2007 | Liverpool | 23 | (2) |
| 2007–2009 | Marseille | 54 | (6) |
| 2009–2011 | Sunderland | 47 | (4) |
| Total | 410 | (59) | |
| National team | |||
| 1997–2004 | Netherlands | 54 | (7) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2012–2013 | Chelsea (assistant manager) | ||
| 2013– | Jong PSV (assistant manager) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Boudewijn "Bolo" Zenden (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbʌu̯dəˌʋɛi̯n ˈzɛndə(n)]; born 15 August 1976) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a left winger or as an attacking midfielder.
Named the 1997 Dutch Football Talent of the Year, Zenden played for four teams in the English Premier League, totalling 180 games and 19 goals. He also played in the highest leagues in the Netherlands, Spain and France, for PSV, Barcelona and Marseille respectively. Internationally, Zenden earned 54 caps and scored seven goals for the Netherlands, whom he represented at two UEFA European Championships and the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Zenden served as the interim assistant manager to Rafael Benítez at Chelsea during the 2012–13 season. He is currently Darije Kalezić's assistant at Jong PSV in the Eerste Divisie.
Zenden's father Pierre Zenden is a former judoka who worked as a sports broadcaster for the public NOS broadcasting system from 1968 to 2005. Zenden played football and was also competitive in judo as a child. In 1985, Dutch club MVV Maastricht signed Zenden after watching him play for amateur club Leonidas. Two years later, he joined the youth academy of PSV.
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