Christian Bouckenooghe

Kris Bouckenooghe

Personal information
Full name	Christian Bouckenooghe
Date of birth	(1977-02-07) February 7, 1977
Place of birth	Cook Islands
Height
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	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. His career highlights include playing at both the 1999 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

External links

• Chris Bouckenooghe – FIFA competition record