Luuk de Jong

Profile Football Stars | Luuk de Jong | De Jong started his career with amateur football club, DZC'68, together with his brother Siem. They were both recruited by the professional team, De Graafschap. Siem enlisted and was scouted by Ajax when playing in De Graafschap's youth, while Luuk stayed with the club. After another match coming of the bench against SC Heerenveen Luuk de Jong Became a starter joining newly acquired Ben Sahar. Together in their first match against Willem II Luuk de Jong gave an assist to Ben Sahar giving De Graafschap a 1-0 win. Luuk de Jong made his first Eredivisie goal in a home match against FC Twente he scored the 2-1. Moments later Luuk de Jong made a hand ball penalty giving the which FC Twente a Blaise N'Kufo scored, the match ended in 2-2. His second goal in a home match came versus Heracles Almelo. 

On April 6, 2012 it was confirmed That Luuk de Jong signed a contract for three years with an option for another year with FC Twente. Luuk intercepted a pass from Maarten Stekelenburg to Gregory van der Wiel and then stayed calm and scored the winner in the which the match ended 1-0. On 4 March, de Jong scored a goal in Twente's 6-2 thrashing of fellow title contenders PSV Eindhoven at the Philips Stadium. However Twente ended up falling out of the competition, losing 4-1 in the second leg in Germany, as de Jong's fellow Dutchman Klaas-Jan Huntelaar netted a hat-trick.

De Jong received his first call-up for the Netherlands senior team for the friendly against Austria on May 9.2011 and made his debut in the same match, Replacing Dirk Kuyt. He scored his first goal with the national squad on September 6, 2011 in the 2-0 win during the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying game against Finland That Dutch secured qualification to the Euro in 2012.

Personal information
Full name Luuk de Jong
Date of birth 27 August 1990 (age 21)
Place of birth Aigle, Switzerland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Striker

Club information
Current club FC Twente
Number 9

Youth career
-2001 DZC '68
2001-2008 De Graafschap

Senior career
years Team
2008-2009 De Graafschap 14 (18)
2009 - Twente 76 (39)

National team
2008-2009 Netherlands U19 five (5)
2009-2011 Netherlands U21 2 (3)
2011 - Netherlands 7 (1)

Honours

Club
FC Twente
     Eredivisie: 2009-10
     Johan Cruijff Shield: 2010, 2011
     KNVB Cup: 2010-11

Individual
     Top goalscorer and top assist provider for FC Twente in the 2010-11 season.
     Top goalscorer for FC Twente in the 2011-12 season.