Fernando Ricksen
Fernando Ricksen was born in Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands on July 27th, 1976 and is the Soccer Player. At the age of 43, Fernando Ricksen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Fernando Jacob Hubert (27 July 1976 – 18 September 2019) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as both a right back and right midfielder.
Rangers bought him for £3.75 million in 2000 after winning Eerste Divisie titles with Fortuna Sittard and Arizona.
He played two Scottish Premier League titles, two Scottish Cups, and three Scottish League Cups with Glasgow's former manager.
He left Zenit Saint Petersburg on loan and gained trophies in 2006 and the UEFA Super Cup.
He was fired by Zenit in 2009 and spent the remaining years of his career at Fortuna Sittard.
He gained 12 caps for the Netherlands between 2000 and 2003, mainly because of his international performances. In 2014, Ricksen was inducted into the Rangers' Hall of Fame.
Ricksen died of motor neurone disease and died as a result of the condition on September 18, 2019, at the age of 43.
Early life
Fernando Jacob Hubertina Ricksen was born in Hoensbroek, Limburg, the Netherlands, on July 27th.
Personal life
Ricksen was the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal on December 25, 2000, after crashing into a lamppost in the early hours of the morning. Ricksen denied charges of drink-driving, careless driving, violating the peace by shouting and screaming, and conducting himself in a disorderly manner. Ricksen was found twice over the legal threshold and was found guilty of drunk-driving, receiving a £500 fine and a 12-month driving suspension. He was cleared of the other charges.
Ricksen was fined £7,000 in October 2003 for violating the peace and assault in connection with a late-night house party he held the previous November. Having denied the charges initially, Ricksen admitted to being disorderly, resulting in a violation of the peace, frequenting fireworks, yelling, and in the midst of assaulting a neighbor who had protested. Ricksen abstinted from alcohol during the 2004-05 football season. Ricksen registered for residential care relating to alcohol use and anger management in July 2006. He had been receiving out-patient care from the clinic for the past six months.
Isabella, Ricksen's daughter, was born in 2011. Ricksen married Veronika, a Russian woman, in 2014. Fernando Ricksen: The Hard Times was a documentary on Sky Sports 1 on May 3, 2015. Ricksen was Catholic but later confessed to his desire to convert to Orthodoxy.
In 2014, Ricksen wrote an autobiography called Battle Spirit, which was released in 2014.
Club career
Ricksen, a former member of Fortuna Sittard, joined Rangers in 2000 from Dutch team AZ Alkmaar for a transfer fee of £3.75 million.
Ricksen's career got off to a rocky start, with him being suspended after a dramatic 21 minutes loss to Celtic that culminated in his retirement from Celtic. He was sent early in another loss on his second trip to Celtic Park six months later. He had been suspended for the two incoming derbies.
Ricksen was the first player in Scottish football to be barred retrospectively on television evidence in November 2000. His kick against Darren Young had been missed by the referee, but he was caught on camera, resulting in a five-game suspension. Young was later discovered to be "straightening out," Ricksen said on his personal web.
Rangers' 2003–04 season was a disappointing one, with the departure of several players from the treble-winning season, including Barry Ferguson and Lorenzo Amoruso. Despite numerous injuries and discipline difficulties throughout the season, Ricksen continued to be a key member of the Rangers team, playing 42 games. Before a match against Panathinaikos in Athens, Ricksen pushed then Rangers chairman John McClelland into a swimming pool. He was barred from the Netherlands national team for smashing a hotel door down after a night out. "We'd rather have Fernando on the back pages, and we've told him not to talk to the media," Rangers banned Ricksen from speaking to the public, and manager McLeish said.
The SFA's video review committee had banned Ricksen in March 2004. In a CIS Cup loss to Hibernian that cost him a four-game suspension and a £10,000 fine from his club, he elbowed him.
Ricksen's career in Rangers came as he shared the SPFA Player of the Year Award after scoring nine goals from midfield in his 40 appearances for the club, winning the league and league cup double.
It was unclear if Ricksen would be seen as a key player of the Rangers team under new manager Paul Le Guen's tenure from 2006 to 2007. Ricksen was sent home by Le Guen after an alcohol-fueled incident on Rangers' outbound flight to their pre-season camp in South Africa, where he later described his behavior as "inappropriate and intolerable for the way in which my players are expected to behave themselves."
Ricksen, along with Lee McCulloch and Nacho Novo, were inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame on March 30, 2014.
Ricksen signed Ricksen for Rangers on a season-long loan on August 9, 2006. In a friendly between Rangers and Zenit two weeks later, he returned to Ibrox and was booed after hitting Chris Burke with what was described as a reckless tackle. Ricksen was embroiled in an on-field fist-fight with Zenit captain Vladislav Radimov a week later. Zenit Saint Petersburg reported on November 28 that they had bought out Ricksen's move from Rangers. Despite all of this, Ricksen defeated Radimov once more in January 2007. Ricksen was demoted to Zenit's reserve team in January 2009 after two and a half years in Russia, having previously refused to leave the team. FC Zenit's permanent disciplinary conduct terminated his deal on August 28, 2009.
Ricksen returned to Fortuna Sittard, who was battling to avoid relegation from the Eerste Divisie, after being without a club for more than a year, on December 2nd, signing a deal until the end of the season.
International career
Ricksen earned his first of 12 caps for the Netherlands on November 15, 2000, when he came as a replacement for Paul Bosvelt in a 3–2 friendly victory over Spain at the Estadio Olimpico de la Cartuja in Seville. In another friendly, he was captained on the 30th of April 2003, a 1–1 home draw with Portugal.
Ricksen became inebriated and toppled two hotel room doors in June 2003, after a UEFA Euro 2004 qualifier away from Belarus. He was later dismissed by boss Dick Advocaat and did not play for the Netherlands again.