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Marco van Basten was born on the 31st of October 1964 in Utrecht, Netherlands. He first played for the Dutch famous club FC Ajax Amsterdam in the 1981/1982 season scoring in total one goal in one single game. A very promissing debut! Next year, in the 1982/1983 season, he scored nine goals in twenty matches. But the next season the talent of Marco van Basten will simply explode as he scores 28 goals in 26 matches for Ajax Amsterdam. In this season he also debuted for the Dutch national team. But this was not enough for a player gifted with his talent and the next year he played extraordinary and scored in the Dutch championship 37 goals in 26 games, winning the "Golden Boot" award which is given to the player which scores the most goals in a European national championship each year. In Holland, he played only for Ajax and he scored 128 goals in 133 matches. An average that not many players managed to make it. With very long discussions over the winter, Berlusconi managed to bring Marco van Basten to AC Milan in 1988. Along with him and another two Dutchmen, the club started one of the best periods in history. Anyway, for the rest of the 1988 season, Van Basten did not played because of a long injury. Due to that injury, he only played 11 matches and scored 3 goals that season but this wasn't so imporant because AC Milan won the Scudetto. He retired from proffesional football in 1993 due to an unstoppable chain of injuries. For AC Milan he played in 147 matches and scored 90 goals. In the private life, he married in 1992 with Liesbeth van Basten-vanCappelleveen. Nowadays he is living with his family (the wife and the three children's: Rebecca, Angelica and Alexander) in Badhoevedorp, a village outside Amsterdam.