Few players have lit up Ajax quite like Marco van Basten. The three-time Ballon d'Or winner racked up a prolific 154 goals in 174 appearances during his six seasons with the Amsterdam club in the ...

Dutch legend and widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers in football history, Marco van Basten revealed his top three players of all time, surprising many by omitting Lionel Messi and ...

"Maybe the player should start 25 meters from goal and then you can dribble the goalkeeper or shoot early," van Basten told the AP’s Rob Harris. "But you have to make a goal within eight seconds.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has offered high praise for striker Jamie Vardy, likening the Englishman's goal against Liverpool to a Marco van Basten strike.

that the Ghanaian’s touch was ‘world-class’, and the ex-Tottenham striker even labelled it a ‘pure Marco van Basten goal’. Depending on how the 24-year-old performs for the rest of this ...