Kevin Hofland

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Kevin Hofland (born June 7, 1979 in Brunssum) is a Dutch football defender. He started playing football for local team Limburgia Brunssum, and his first professional club was Fortuna Sittard. Here, he made his professional debut on 10 September 1997 against Sparta Rotterdam and quickly gained recognition within the Eredivisie as a tough but consistent centre-back. It was also at the Sittard club where he teamed up with other future Dutch stars such as Wilfred Bouma and Mark van Bommel.

In 2000 he was transferred for 3.4 million pounds to PSV Eindhoven amidst rumors of a Manchester United transfer where he quickly teamed up with then PSV captain Ernest Faber and worked well with other fullbacks like Stan Valckx and at times, with André Ooijer. His improved performances for PSV has convinced the Dutch coach at that time Louis van Gaal to hand him his debut for the national team in a match against Spain which the Dutch won 2-1 away. Hofland was however replaced after 46 minutes by Patrick Paauwe in that particular match. In 2004, after falling out with PSV coach Guus Hiddink, Hofland decided to sign on for VfL Wolfsburg.

Hofland has been capped seven times for the Dutch national team.

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VfL Wolfsburg - Current Squad

1 Jentzsch | 2 Quiroga | 3 Van der Heyden | 4 Madlung | 5 Hofland | 6 Van der Leegte | 7 Menseguez | 8 Hristov | 9 Klimowicz | 10 Krzynówek | 11 Hanke | 12 Lenz | 13 Boakye | 14 Santana | 15 Sarpei | 16 Möhrle | 17 Lamprecht | 18 Makiadi | 19 Hoogendorp | 20 Karhan | 21 Platins | 22 Alex | 23 Stegmayer | 24 Müller | 25 Fischer | 26 Evljuskin | 27 Thiam | 28 Hill | 31 Öztürk | 32 Marcelinho | 33 Dos Santos
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