Gillhaus in 2011
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Johannes Paulus Gillhaus | ||
Date of birth | 5 November 1963 | ||
Place of birth | Helmond, Netherlands | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1983–1987 | Den Bosch | 106 | (45) |
1987–1989 | PSV | 67 | (23) |
1989–1993 | Aberdeen | 78 | (27) |
1993–1995 | Vitesse | 54 | (28) |
1995–1996 | Gamba Osaka | 60 | (28) |
1996–1997 | AZ | 11 | (1) |
1998 | FF Jaro | 7 | (2) |
1998–1999 | Den Bosch | 17 | (2) |
Total | 400 | (156) | |
National team | |||
1987–1994 | Netherlands | 9 | (2) |
1990 | Scottish League | 1 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Johannes "Hans" Paulus Gillhaus (born 5 November 1963) is a Dutch retired footballer who played primarily as a left-sided forward.
During a 16-year professional career, he amassed Eredivisie totals of 348 games and 146 goals, mainly in representation of Den Bosch and PSV, also playing abroad in Scotland, Japan and Finland.
Gillhaus represented the Netherlands at the 1990 World Cup.
Born in Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Gillhaus started playing professionally for FC Den Bosch, making his Eredivisie debuts in 1983–84 (12 games, three goals), then proceeding to score 33 league goals in his last two seasons combined.
In the 1987 summer, A.C. Milan bought Ruud Gullit from PSV Eindhoven for a world-record transfer fee £6,000,000, and that money was soon used in the acquisition of Gillhaus, Wim Kieft and Søren Lerby. The former netted 15 goals in only 26 games in his first season, helping the Philips club to an historic treble – he appeared 105 minutes in the campaign's European Cup final, a 0–0 penalty shootout win against S.L. Benfica.