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Virgil van Dijk

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Virgil van Dijk

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Dutch association football player (born 1991)

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Virgil van Dijk is a male soccer player from the Netherlands who plays as a centre-back for Liverpool. Born on 1991-07-08, he stands 195 centimeters tall and weighs 92 kilograms. His professional career began on 2011-05-01. During his time with the team, he has worn sport numbers 4, 17, and 5.

In his career, van Dijk has recorded 100 total goals. He has also been associated with a work period that includes one match or start. His social media presence includes 3,252,255 followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1941-11-27
Active to
2020-04-12
jazzthe netherlands

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
40
Total plays
64

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Virgil+Van+Dijk">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  2. Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

    · 2017 · cited 33,751x

  3. Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath

    · 1984 · cited 28,832x

  4. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,642x

  5. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,638x

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Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
Liverpool
Position
Centre-Back
Nationality
The Netherlands

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Place of birth
Breda
Occupation
association football player
Languages spoken
Dutch
Native language
Dutch
Award
UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award
Participant in
UEFA Euro 2024
Field of work
association football
Sport
association football
Member of team
Liverpool F.C.
Position played
defender
League
Premier League
Country for sport
Netherlands
Mass
92
Image
20160604 AUT NED 8876 (cropped).jpg
Height
195
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date of birth
1991-07-08
name in native language
Virgil van Dijk
Commons category
Virgil van Dijk
sport number
4
start of work period
2011-05-01
number of matches played/races/starts
1
total goals in career
0
social media followers
3252255
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Encyclopedic overview

* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:41, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Virgil van Dijk ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɪrdʑɪl vɑn ˈdɛik]; born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains both Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. Widely regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, and one of the greatest defenders in Premier League history, he is known for his strength, leadership, speed and aerial ability.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virgil van Dijk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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