Virgil van Dijk Profile, Age, Height, Net Worth, Affairs, Biography & More

Virgil van Dijk (born July 8, 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, Van Dijk is known for his strength, leadership and aerial ability. He is the only defender to have won the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award and finished runner-up in the Ballon d’Or and Best FIFA Men’s Player.

After starting his professional career with Groningen, Van Dijk moved to Celtic in 2013. With Celtic he won the Scottish Premiership and was named in the PFA Scotland Team of the Year during his two seasons with the club , and won the Scottish League Cup in the second.

In 2015 he joined Southampton before signing for Liverpool in January 2018 for £75million, a then world record transfer fee for a defender. With Liverpool, Van Dijk reached back-to-back UEFA Champions League finals in 2018 and 2019, winning the latter. He was also named PFA Players’ Player of the Year and Premier League Player of the Season in his first full season. Van Dijk went on to win the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, and helped end the club’s 30-year drought by winning the 2019-20 Premier League.

Van Dijk has represented the Netherlands at Under-19 and Under-21 levels. He made his senior international debut for the Netherlands in 2015 and assumed full national team captaincy in March 2018. The following year, Van Dijk led the Netherlands to the final of the first leg. UEFA Nations League, where they finished second. He also represented the team at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Van Dijk usually only uses his first name on the kit. According to his uncle Steven, this is due to a family feud with his father, Ron van Dijk, who abandoned his family during Virgil’s childhood. Virgil is married to his childhood sweetheart, Rike Nooitgedagt, and they have four children. Van Dijk has Chinese ancestry. Hellen Fo Sieeuw, her mother, is of part Chinese descent. The Chinese surname “Fo Sieeuw” derives from the first name of his maternal great-grandfather, Chin Fo Sieeuw, who emigrated from Guangdong to Suriname around 1920.

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