Gerald Sibon
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| Gerald Sibon | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Gerald Sibon | |
| Date of birth | April 19, 1974 (age 32) | |
| Place of birth | Emmen, Netherlands | |
| Height | 198 cm | |
| Position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Nürnberg | |
| Number | 9 | |
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| before 1994 1994-96 1996-97 1997-99 1999-2002 2002-2004 2004-2006 since 2006 |
FC Twente VVV Venlo Roda JC Kerkrade Ajax Amsterdam Sheffield Wednesday SC Heerenveen PSV Eindhoven 1. FC Nürnberg |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Gerald Sibon (born April 19, 1974 in Emmen, the Netherlands), is a Dutch football player who currently plays for 1. FC Nürnberg. He plays in central forward position at the club.
He featured for FC Twente in the 1993/1994 season as a substitute but could only string together three games before deciding to sign for VVV Venlo of the Eerste Divisie in the following season. After two successful seasons playing for VVV where he scored 34 goals, he joined Roda JC in 1996 and impressed with 13 goals back in the top-flight.
Sibon moved to Ajax Amsterdam in 1997 but was frustrated and hampered by a lack of first team action, having been relegated to the bench by other Ajax forwards like the Wamberto, Shota Arveladze, Georgi Kinkladze and the crowd favourite Brian Laudrup. An offer by English Premiership strugglers Sheffield Wednesday prompted Sibon to transfer to the Yorkshire club in 1999. Joining him at Sheffield Wednesday were Dutch international Wim Jonk and the Belgian Gilles De Bilde.
After spending four seasons with Sheffield Wednesday, where he scored 36 goals overall for the club, he decided to return to the Eredivisie and joined SC Heerenveen in 2002. He featured for Heerenveen in 38 matches and scored 19 goals in two seasons before signing on for PSV in 2004. At the beginning of the 2004/2005 season, many Ajax fans wrote off PSV's chances of the Eredivisie title after considering Sibon's controversial move, branding him an Ajax discard but he has four goals for his new club before the January 2005 transfer window and have won the Dutch Eredivise title by the end of the season although he had to contend with other PSV forwards such as Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and Robert for a first team spot. In July of 2006 he joined Bundesliga side Nürnberg on a free transfer.
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| 1. FC Nürnberg - Current Squad |
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1 Schäfer | 3 Beauchamp | 4 Gláuber | 5 Wolf | 6 Galásek | 7 Nikl | 8 Polák | 9 Sibon | 10 Banović | 11 Mintál | 16 Heffernan | 18 Klewer | 19 Kristiansen | 20 Kennedy | 21 Schroth | 22 Engelhardt | 23 Saenko | 24 Greško | 25 Pinola | 26 Weber | 28 Reinhardt | 30 Stephan | 31 Paulus | 32 Benko | 33 Vittek | 34 Huber | 35 Pagenburg | 36 Mnari |
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