IT’S not quite Beethoven teaching a toddler how to play the keyboard, but as far as striker coaches go Kevin van Veen had a good one.
For “two or three years” – the Dutchman can’t remember exactly – he learned his trade in PSV’s youth system under Ruud van Nistelrooy, spending more hours than he cares to count putting the ball into the back of the net. A league winner in England and Spain, top-scorer in the Champions League on three occasions, and UEFA forward of the year in 2003, Van Nistelrooy’s pedigree speaks for itself.
