Sentence examples for the ruud from inspiring English sources

But for all the Ruud Gullits and Marco van Bastens and Dennis Bergkamps they have fielded through the years, they have not been in a World Cup final since 1978.

But it would be unusual if Shepherd, who is believed to be reluctant to appoint a foreign manager after the Ruud Gullit and Ossie Ardiles experiences, did not at least consider Allardyce's achievements at Bolton.

The rest of the delegation consisted Alf Andersen, Sigmund Ruud the oldest of the Ruud brothers and Hans Kleppen.

Or the way Ruud, the 44-year-old teddy bear of a fellow, famous for hugging everyone, wept over a letter from his daughter, who wrote that she missed him so.

There are oldies but goodies on the pitch: the lumbering old Jan Koller of the Czechs and the renovated Ruud van Nistelrooy of the Dutch, in real time, in my town.

It was the home side's best spell of the match and they took advantage when Callum Davidson's cross from the left evaded the stretching Ruud Boffin allowing Tade to head home from close range.

The next year Ruud van Nistelrooy joined the lineup.

He lost the record to Sigmund Ruud the following year, but by the end of the season, Lymburne reclaimed the title with a jump of 87.5 meters (287 ft).

The Dutch goal, in the 63rd minute, came off the boot of Andrade, a Portuguese defender, as he stretched to reach a ball from van Bronckhorst ahead of the lurking Ruud van Nistelrooy and succeeded only in looping the ball over Ricardo and into the Portuguese goal.

A4 U.N. Commissioner Cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan cleared the United Nations high commissioner for refugees of sexual harassment accusations, but he told staff members of the Geneva-based agency that he had sent the commissioner, Ruud Lubbers, a tough message admonishing him over his behavior.

And I don't mean just entertainment, because from the moment Ruud Gullit took Zola to Chelsea in 1996 until the day he called time on his playing career at 39 years of age in 2005, Zola demonstrated that the joy of playing could also be mightily effective.