Ruud Hesp

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Ruud Hesp
Full name	Rudolfus Hubertus Hesp
Date of birth	October 31, 1965 (1965-10-31) (age 42)
Place of birth	Bussum, Netherlands
Playing position	Goalkeeper (retired)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1985–1987 1987–1994 1994–1997 1997–2000 2000–2002	Haarlem Fortuna Sittard Roda JC FC Barcelona Fortuna Sittard	2 (0) 238 (0) 102 (0) 95 (0) 62 (0)
National team
1998	Netherlands	0 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Rudolfus Hubertus (Ruud) Hesp^[1] (born October 31, 1965 in Bussum, Noord-Holland) is a retired Dutch football goalkeeper. He started his career in the 1985/1986 season at HFC Haarlem, then went on to Fortuna Sittard, where he played for seven years (1987-94). His next club was Roda JC (1994-97). Then came FC Barcelona (1997-2000), before moving back to Holland to play for Fortuna Sittard once again.

Although Hesp was in the 1998 World Cup Holland squad, he never actually won a cap for the national team, acting as understudy to both automatic first choice Edwin van der Sar and his substitute goalkeeper Ed de Goeij. He retired in the summer of 2002. His brother Danny was also a professional football player.

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^ Foreign Players in the Spanish League (First Division). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.

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Roda JC-spelers (in Dutch)

v • d • e Netherlands squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place

1 van der Sar • 2 Reiziger • 3 Stam • 4 F. de Boer • 5 Numan • 6 Jonk • 7 R. de Boer • 8 Bergkamp • 9 Kluivert • 10 Seedorf • 11 Cocu • 12 Zenden • 13 Ooijer • 14 Overmars • 15 Bogarde • 16 Davids • 17 van Hooijdonk • 18 de Goey • 19 van Bronckhorst • 20 Winter • 21 Hasselbaink • 22 Hesp • Coach: Hiddink