Brian Roy                            32 caps, 9 goals left winger

Brian Roy was born in Amsterdam on February 12th 1970 and played for Ajax from his youth and became a typical left-winger. Brian made his debut for Ajax, as a 17 year old, under Cruyffs eyes, against Fc Twente and scored!

Made it to the Dutch national team and debuts against Denmark in Amsterdam (1989) a 2-2 draw. Roy was part of the 1990 WC-squad in Italy (although he didn't paly a minute!). At the EC-tournament in Sweden (1992) he played all games but again, scored no goals. At the US WC-tournament in 1994 he scored the winning goal against Marocco (2-1) in Orlando (Florida). Brian was already a Foggia (Italy) player by that time, where he played together with Igor Kolyvanov (Russia). In his top season, 1993-94 in Italy he had scored 11 goals as a winger! He had made a transfer to Nottingham Forest to become shadow-forward and played his last cap in Rotterdam against Malta (4-0 win) when he said "no longer a winger", by that time Overmars and Helder where the (left-)wingers.

At Forest he became club-topscorer in the 1995-96 season with 8 goals, one season earlier he had scored 13. In his last season Roy played together with Pierre van Hooijdonck (former-NAC Breda).

Roy was married to Dutch TV-star Nada van Nie and they lived in England for a while, till Roy's transfer to Hertha BSC (Berlin). In Germany he never got the chance to show his skills. He didn't play much and got frustrated, finally he got a transfer to NAC Breda, where he will play together with Cedric Seedorf (former Inter Milan), Clerence's bother!

In the 2001/02 season he retired