Christian Bouckenooghe
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Christian Bouckenooghe | ||
Date of birth | February 7, 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Cook Islands | ||
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Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Roeselare | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–1996 | Rotherham United | 0 | (0) |
1996–1997 | Waregem | 0 | (0) |
1997–2000 | Roeselare | 82 | (13) |
2000–2001 | Handzame | 8 | (1) |
2001–2002 | Oostende | 27 | (6) |
2002–2003 | Ronse | 27 | (3) |
2003–2006 | Roeselare | 57 | (7) |
2006–2008 | Red Star Waasland | 16 | (1) |
2008– | K.S.V. Roeselare | ||
International career‡ | |||
1998– | New Zealand | 35 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC) |
Christian "Kris" Bouckenooghe (born February 7, 1977) is a New Zealand association football player of Belgian and Cook Island Māori descent. He plays as a defender for Roeselare in the lower divisions of Belgian football.
Club career
He was born in the Cook Islands of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Belgian father, subsequently moving to New Zealand as a child, where he played his youth soccer. He has played for New Zealand at age-group level, including a play-off series against the South African under-23 team to qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, scoring in the NZ team's narrow 3-4 and 0-1 losses in that series. All of his early career was spent as a midfielder or striker, until converting to defence at K.S.V. Roeselare in Belgium. His first professional club was Rotherham in England, who signed him as a teenager on the recommendation of former New Zealand national coach and ex Rotherham player, Kevin Fallon. From there he signed for KSV Roeselare in the 1990s, his first of two periods with the club. He is the first New Zealander to play in the Belgian First Division.
International career
Bouckenooghe played 35 A-internationals for the New Zealand national soccer team, the All Whites scoring 2 goals.[1][2] His career highlights include playing at both the 1999[3] and 2003 Confederations Cup in Mexico and France respectively, which New Zealand qualified for as Oceania champions after beating Australia, previously the dominant power in the region.
Honours
- Belgian Second Division:
- Runner-up (1): 2004-05
Belgium Premier Division 2005-06 New Zealand International player of the year 1999
References
External links
- Chris Bouckenooghe – FIFA competition record
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Belgian Second Division players
- Cook Island Māori people
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Association football defenders
- Association football midfielders
- K.S.V. Roeselare players
- K.V. Oostende players
- New Zealand expatriate association footballers
- New Zealand expatriates in the United Kingdom
- New Zealand international footballers
- New Zealand association footballers
- New Zealand people of Belgian descent
- Rotherham United F.C. players