Gio scores the World Cup goal

Giovanni Van Bronckhorst he was able to retire from professional football through the front door as world champion in South Africa. However, he was left with honey on his lips by the goal of Iniesta in the end. What nobody could take away was that he scored the best goal of the world.

It was the 19th minute of the semifinal Uruguay-Holland when the Dutch captain released a tremendous left-footed shot from 30 meters that beat Thigh and got the orange victory on track. Probably the best goal and the most important of the 60 goals he scored in his brilliant career. The world title would have been an extraordinary culmination for Gio.

Of Indonesian and Moluccan roots (islands located in the peaceful) and Feyenoord youth player, Van Bronckhorst triumphed at the club Rotterdam (was loaned in the modest Waalwijk) before playing in the Glasgow Rangers, he Wenger's Armory and the Rijkaard's Barça. In Barcelona it gained Liga of 2005 and it marked four goals. Two years later he returned to Feyenoord where he retired.

Gio played three World Cups and three Eurocups, although never with the importance it had in South Africa. Undisputed holder and captain, he led his team to the third final in its history with the hope of finally winning the World Cup and avenging the generation of Cruyff. But it could not be. Spain and his former partner Iniesta avoided it.