Frankie 8,145 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) For our latest Gersnet Interview, we’re delighted to welcome former Rangers, Arsenal, Barcelona, Feyenoord and Holland player, Giovanni van Bronckhorst to the hot-seat. I’m sure we’ll all remember Gio as a fantastic left-sided midfielder who arrived at the start of the Dick Advocaat managerial era in 1998. Unfortunately, such was the Dutch play-maker’s exciting talent, a huge bid of £8.5million (a then Scottish football record sale) saw him move south to Arsenal a few years later. Gio won the FA Cup twice and the Premier League title in his time at the London club before moving onto Barcelona where he also helped win La Liga twice as well as the 2006 Champions League. With such a wonderful record at club level it’s no surprise that he was quickly made the Holland national team captain – winning over 100 caps in the process. It’s not a surprise that Gio is putting all this incredible experience to good use with his foundation (http://www.vanbronckhorstfoundation.com/en/) which aims to assist childrens’ development in a variety of key areas. His foundation is involved in a variety of fascinating projects (birthing centres and education academies to name but two) and their website is well worth a visit. It's clear Gio has been someone those in Holland can be proud of and to that end he was recently made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau which is a Dutch chivalry honour open to "everyone who have earned special merits for society" (equivalent to an OBE in the UK). You can view the interview here: http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=452:exclusive-gersnet-interview-with-giovanni-van-bronckhorst&catid=1:articles&Itemid=67 Edited October 26, 2011 by Frankie 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy 0 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Love his all time best 11. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Love his all time best 11. Yeah, it's not a bad side that. I think Gio's achievements in the game really are quite something. Perhaps only Gattuso can stand taller in terms of honours! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Nice one Frankie. Just think, if you had worked for the BBC, that would have been a wee trip to Holland. Tough. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 What a player and a great person. Shook his hand once just mumbled something didn't know what to say. What a career he had as well, and loving his all team. Thanks for that Frankie. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Nice one Frankie. Just think, if you had worked for the BBC, that would have been a wee trip to Holland. Tough. I'd have arranged to meet him in Monaco actually... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Supposedly friction between Dutch players and the rest, yet the ones he mentions are Reyna and Albertz. OOPS hit the wrong button Frankie !! Edited October 26, 2011 by chilledbear 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Great interview, nice coup I'm going to be a dick though and point out a grammar error in the introduction. It says 'seen' instead of 'saw'. *hides* 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Quite a coup for Gersnet but my overall impression is that I could have read it in the old Rangers News - very tame questions and learned nothing I couldn't have predicted before reading, whoever the guest was. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Quite a coup for Gersnet but my overall impression is that I could have read it in the old Rangers News - very tame questions and learned nothing I couldn't have predicted before reading, whoever the guest was. Appreciate there's nothing ground-breaking but a number of questions were put to Gio and he was given the opportunity to answer which ones he fancied. We're not really in a position to force him to talk about stuff he doesn't want to. I'm not Paxman... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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