At the end of the campaign, and with Van Dijk having "outgrown" the club, he was offered to a number of bigger Eredivisie clubs, including Ajax, all of which elected not to sign him. He did, however, return to Groningen and continued to impress the following season. Van Dijk later revealed that he had been close to dying as a result of the medical emergency and that the hospital had even gone so far as to ask him to sign a "sort of will" in the event of his passing. He suffered a personal setback during the campaign, however, as soon after his 20th birthday he was admitted to hospital with peritonitis and kidney poisoning. ĭuring the 2011–12 Eredivisie season, Van Dijk made 23 league appearances for the Eredivisie team, and scored his first regular-season goal during the club's 6–0 victory over Feyenoord on 30 October 2011.
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On 29 May, and against the same opposition, he made his first start for Groningen and scored his first professional goals, netting twice in a 5–1 win in a UEFA Europa League play-off match. He made his professional debut for the club on, coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute for Petter Andersson during a 4–2 victory against ADO Den Haag. Van Dijk initially struggled to break into Groningen's first team with club staff believing he was "overtired" after extensive playing time with Willem II's academy and reserve sides.
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In 2010, he was scouted by former Dutch international Martin Koeman, who was working for FC Groningen at the time, and he ended up completing a free transfer to the club in the same year. Despite the positional shift and Van Dijk's physical growth, Willem II's reserve manager at the time Edwin Hermans believed he had "too many limitations" which prevented him from breaking into the first team. Having previously and unsuccessfully featured as a right-back, Van Dijk was shifted into a central defensive position in 2008, aged 17, after he grew in height by around 18 centimetres. He combined his time playing at the Willem II academy with a part-time job as a dishwasher. Growing up he would play football wherever he could – on the streets, in concrete cages, and eventually Saturday morning matches. Van Dijk was born in Breda to a Dutch father and a Surinamese mother. The following year, Van Dijk captained the Netherlands to the final of the inaugural UEFA Nations League, where they finished runners-up.
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He made his senior international debut for the Netherlands in 2015 and assumed full captaincy of the national team in March 2018. Van Dijk is a former youth international for the Netherlands, representing his country at under-19 and under-21 levels. Van Dijk later won the FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup, and helped end the club's 30-year league title drought by winning the 2019–20 Premier League. He was also named PFA Players' Player of the Year and the Premier League Player of the Season in his first full season. With Liverpool, Van Dijk reached back-to-back UEFA Champions League finals in 20, winning the latter. In 2015, he joined Southampton before signing for Liverpool in January 2018 for £75 million, a then- world-record transfer fee for a defender. Īfter beginning his professional career with Groningen, Van Dijk moved to Celtic in 2013, where he won the Scottish Premiership and was named in the PFA Scotland Team of the Year in both of his seasons with the club, also winning the Scottish League Cup in the latter. He is the only defender to win UEFA Men's Player of the Year, and has finished runner-up for the Ballon d'Or and Best FIFA Men's Player. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, Van Dijk is known for his strength, leadership and aerial ability. Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Netherlands national team.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2021 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:41, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
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