Ferdi Vierklau

Ferdi Vierklau
Personal information
Full name	Ferdinand Rudols Marcel Vierklau
Date of birth	1 April 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Bilthoven, Netherlands
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Right back
Youth career
	FAK
	USV Elinkwijk
Senior career*
Years	Team
1991–1996	Utrecht
1996–1997	Vitesse
1997–1998	Tenerife
1999–2002	Ajax
Total
International career
1996–1997	Netherlands
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ferdinand 'Ferdi' Rudols Marcel Vierklau (born 1 April 1973) is a Dutch retired footballer who played as a right back.

Club career

Vierklau was born in Bilthoven, Utrecht. In his country, he played for FC Utrecht, Vitesse Arnhem and AFC Ajax (March 1999 to June 2002), appearing in 185 Eredivisie matches over 11 seasons and scoring five goals; he won the double with the Amsterdam club in the 2001–02 campaign, but was already a fringe player at the time.

Vierklau also played one and a half seasons with CD Tenerife in Spain,^[1] being relegated in his second year in La Liga and subsequently signing with Ajax. He retired at the age of 29.

Vierklau earned two caps for the Netherlands, in a period of eight months. His debut was on 5 October 1996, as he played 71 minutes in a 3–1 away win against Wales for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification stages.

Ajax

^ Castañeda, Álvaro (28 September 1998). "El Alavés se lo pasa bien en Tenerife" [Alavés have a good time in Tenerife]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2017.