Frank de Boer
Frank de Boer (born May 15, 1970 in Hoorn, Netherlands) is a Dutch football player.
He is the most-capped player in the history of Dutch football, having represented his national team 112 times. He made his debut in September 1990 against Italy.
He began his career as a left-back at Ajax before switching to centre-back, a position he made his own for many years in the national team. After winning both the Champions League and UEFA Cup while at Ajax, he then joined Barcelona where he was unable to repeat his earlier triumphs and, in fact, suffered the ignominy of testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone. He briefly moved to Galatasaray in the summer of 2003 before joining Rangers in January 2004. He left Rangers in 2004 after Euro 2004 along with twin brother Ronald de Boer to play the rest of his football in Qatar with Al-Rayyan.
He ended his international career in disappointing fashion after an injury forced him to be replaced in a quarterfinal game with Sweden at Euro 2004. The injury ruled him out of the semifinal match with Portugal which Holland lost 2-1 to go out of the tournament.
