Name Rick Talan Role Football player | Years Team 1979–1985 AZ'67 | |
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Date of birth (1960-11-03)3 November 1960 Date of death 30 September 2015(2015-09-30) (aged 54) Died September 30, 2015, Zevenaar, Netherlands | ||
Place of birth Katwijk, Netherlands Place of death Zevenaar, Netherlands | ||
Rick Talan (3 November 1960 – 30 September 2015) was a Dutch football player.
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Club career
A pacy striker, Talan started his career with local amateur side Katwijk and joined AZ'67 in 1978. He scored 44 goals in 95 official matches for the club and was part of the squad that won the club's first Eredivisie title in 1981. In the 1983–84 Eredivisie season he scored 20 goals in 33 league games for AZ. In 1982, he played half a year for Belgian side Cercle Brugge, scoring twice in 14 official matches.
He finishes his career in 1988 after playing almost 100 games with Vitesse Arnhem.
Personal life and death
Talan's younger brother Jeffrey also became a professional footballer and earned 8 senior caps for the Netherlands. Talan owned an accountancy company in Zevenaar.
Rick Talan suffered from a brain tumor in 2007 and underwent two operations. The tumor however returned a year later and he died in September 2015.