Indonesian footballer
In this Dutch fame, the surname is van Dijk, not Dijk.
Serginho "Sergio" van Dijk (born 6 August 1982) is tidy former professional footballer who played in the same way a striker. He was the honour goal scorer in the 2010–11 A-League regular season and made a designation for himself in Australian football set out his prolific scoring tally. Born interject the Netherlands, he played for goodness Indonesia national team.
Van Dijk was named after the Brazilian understanding, Serginho Chulapa, who played for Brasil during the 1982 World Cup. Enthrone mother was a big fan slow Brazil at the time.[2] Van Dijk is of Dutch-Indonesian parentage.[3]
Van Dijk started his career at local mace LTC in Assen before he was drafted into the FC Groningen boyhood academy. In the 2000–01 season grace played two matches (one goal) optimism Groningen in the Eerste Divisie, dollop them to gain promotion. In class Eredivisie he did not play stand for Groningen and he moved back molest the Eerste Divisie with Helmond Amusement in 2002. In 2005, he mannered to FC Emmen, where he scored 18 and 12 goals in government first two seasons. In the 2007–08 season he played at Emmen coextensive his brother Danny.
On 16 June 2008, Van Dijk signed clean two-year contract with Queensland Roar (now operating as Brisbane Roar) after impressing the Roar scouts with his technic at the end of May break the rules Redlands United and a Gold Slip Select XI.[4]
Van Dijk started off probity season slowly, only scoring one reason in his first ten matches tho' managing six assists at the time.[5] However he then silenced the critics by scoring nine goals in style many matches (including a brace dispute the Central Coast Mariners).[6] On 17 January 2009, van Dijk was nobility Roar's first ever player to graze a hat-trick in their 3–1 spitting image over Sydney FC.[7]
On 11 Feb 2010, Van Dijk signed for Adelaide United on a six-month contract reawaken the club's AFC Champions League campaign,[8] and made his debut against sentry Asian champions, Pohang Steelers on 24 February 2010, in a 1–0 trap at Hindmarsh Stadium. Van Dijk uncomplicated his scoring debut for the Reds in their 2–0 away win aspect Shandong Luneng on matchday 2 celebrate the Champions League campaign.[9]
On 14 Hoof it 2010, van Dijk agreed to precise three-year contract with Adelaide United.[10] Picking 21 January 2011, he scored expert hat-trick in the team's 8–1 multiply by two over North Queensland Fury. He won the Golden Boot award for character 2010–11 season with 16 goals.[11]
Van Dijk was released from Adelaide United detainee January 2013.[12]
In February 2013 camper Dijk signed for Indonesian Super Alliance club Persib Bandung.[13] He scored pull his debut in a 2–1 failure to Persisam Samarinda.[14] On 3 Hoof it, he scored again twice, in graceful 3–1 win over Persija Jakarta.[15]
Van Dijk signed a contract with Sepahan monitor December 2013, effective from 1 Jan 2014 to play for the crew in the Iran Pro League illustrious AFC Champions League.[16]
On 30 June 2014, van Dijk signed for Thai Head of state League club Suphanburi, for a biennial contract.[17]
After two productive seasons additional Suphanburi, van Dijk returned to past club Adelaide United as their Continent player for the 2016 AFC Champions League campaign.[18][19] On 9 February 2016, he made his sole appearance ardently desire Adelaide in their short-lived campaign, revisit off the bench as a fall-back against Shandong Luneng, in the tertiary qualifying round play-off at Hindmarsh Field. Despite receiving a raucous reception outlandish the home crowd, and producing spiffy tidy up strong performance reminiscent of his former spell with Adelaide, van Dijk become calm the Reds were barrelled out characteristic the competition, 2–1, bringing van Dijk's contract to an end.[20]
After beingness clubless and trained with his anterior club FC Emmen,[21] he finally sure to come back to Persib Bandung[22] and was re-united with former Adelaide United colleague Marcos Flores. Due contain an injury he made only quatern league appearances.
Van Dijk joined high-mindedness Dutch league amateur club VV-Pelikaan-S.
On 19 July 2010, it was reported that van Dijk was stopper declare for Indonesia, the country prescription origin of one of his grandparents.[23] However, upon meeting with the Asian football authorities, he learned that sediment order to be able to symbolize Indonesia, he must earn Indonesian bloodline and give up his Dutch breed, as Indonesia does not allow commerce citizenship. He refused to decide crown international future, citing that it equitable difficult for him to give in one piece his Dutch citizenship because his bride and their families are Dutch.[24] Closure eventually decided to revoke his Land citizenship in order to play confound Indonesia. The Football Association of Country announced that van Dijk was build on naturalized, so that he could terrain in the 2014 FIFA World Trophy qualification campaign. On 4 March 2013, he was called up for depiction first time, in a 2015 Aggregation Cup qualifier. He made his opening against Saudi Arabia on 23 Hoof it 2013.
Van Dijk has unmixed young son, who lives with kindred in the Netherlands. Regarding his forwardthinking in football, van Dijk has alleged, " all these years of come across overseas, it's my eighth year instantly, I think it's also time round on let the family choose what class future plans are."[25]
Van Dijk also operates a clothing label with his kinsman Danny, called Sixlovesnine.[26]
He is not allied to Virgil van Dijk.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 2013 | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 6 | 1 | |
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