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Fernando Ricksen
Ricksen playing for Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2007
Personal information
Full name
Fernando Jacob Hubertina Henrika Ricksen[1]
Date of birth
(1976-07-27)27 July 1976
Place of birth
Hoensbroek, Netherlands[1]
Date of death
18 September 2019(2019-09-18) (aged 43)
Place of death
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)
Central midfielder, right-back
Youth career
1980–1986
EHC
1986–1988
RKONS
1988–1992
Roda JC
1992–1994
Fortuna Sittard
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1994–1997
Fortuna Sittard
94
(5)
1997–2000
AZ
92
(12)
2000–2006
Rangers
182
(13)
2006
→ Zenit Saint Petersburg (loan)
14
(2)
2007–2009
Zenit Saint Petersburg
22
(0)
2010–2013
Fortuna Sittard
48
(1)
Total
452
(33)
International career
2000–2003
Netherlands
12
(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Fernando Jacob Hubertina Henrika Ricksen (27 July 1976 – 18 September 2019) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a right back and central midfielder. After winning Eerste Divisie titles with Fortuna Sittard and AZ, he joined Rangers for £3.75 million in 2000. In six years with the club from Glasgow, he won two Scottish Premier League titles, two Scottish Cups and three Scottish League Cups. He left in 2006 for Zenit Saint Petersburg, initially on loan, and won honours including the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2008. He was dismissed by Zenit in 2009, and spent the final years of his career back at Fortuna Sittard. Internationally, he earned 12 caps for the Netherlands between 2000 and 2003.
Ricksen was elected to Rangers's Hall of Fame in 2014. He suffered from motor neurone disease and died from the disease on 18 September 2019, aged 43.
^ abRicksen, Fernando; De Vries, Vincent (2014). Fighting Spirit: The Autobiography of Fernando Ricksen. Birlinn. ISBN 9780857908124. Retrieved 18 September 2019. Several eyebrows must have been raised in Hoensbroek, the quiet town in the Dutch province of Limburg where I was born on 27 July 1976, with the name of Fernando Jacob Hubertina Henrika Ricksen
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