The irony in it all is that Danielle and Ruud live in Eindhoven.
In fact, he is probably quicker than Coley or Ruud were in their heyday.
The bizarre sojourn of Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit in Chechnya ended last night, as he was unceremoniously sacked as manager of the region's leading football team, Terek Grozny.
Possibly in acknowledgement of the solemnity of the occasion, presenter Gary Lineker attempted only one of his signature jokes: a pun-free effort in which the "Dutchman making his debut in Manchester" cunningly meant not Louis Van Gaal, the new Man Utd manager at Old Trafford, but expert Ruud Gullit in the MOTD studio (which, if you are going to be picky, is in Salford).
Startupbootcamp, an accelerator based in B.Amsterdam, hosts one of the Netherlands' liveliest demo days and was founded by Patrick De Zeeuw, Alex Farcet, Carsten Kolbeck and Ruud Hendriks in 2010.
Cruyff launched a tradition of great strikers coming out of the Netherlands: Marco Van Basten in the 1980s, Patrick Kluivert in the 1990s, and Ruud van Nistelrooy in the 2000s.
A goalless draw between the two clubs in September 2003, in which Ruud van Nistelrooy missed a penalty in stoppage time, resulted in an altercation between both teams.
Andersen and Ruud skied down the in-run in a standing position to reduce their speed, and had the two longest standing jumps.
His 62 goals in 80 matches compares to Raúl's 71 in 144, Ruud van Nistelrooy's 60 in 88, Andrey Shevchenko's 59 in 116, and Ronaldo's 54 in 96.
If he did leave, it would mirror the situation Cole found himself in following the arrival of Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2001, when he found himself shunted down the pecking order.
