Christian Bouckenooghe

Kris Bouckenooghe
Personal information
Full name	Christian Bouckenooghe
Date of birth	7 February 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Cook Islands
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1996	Rotherham United
1996–1997	Waregem
1997–2000	Roeselare
2000–2001	Handzame
2001–2002	Oostende
2002–2003	Ronse
2003–2006	Roeselare
2006–2008	Red Star Waasland
2008–2009	K.S.V. Roeselare
International career‡
1998–2009	New Zealand
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2007; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Christian "Kris" Bouckenooghe (born 7 February 1977) is a retired New Zealand association football player of Belgian and Cook Island Māori descent. He played as a defender, mostly in the lower divisions of Belgian football with one season in the Belgian First Division.

Club career[edit]

He was born in the Cook Islands of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Belgian father, subsequently moving to New Zealand as a child, where he played his youth soccer and attended Tauranga Boys' College. He has played for New Zealand at age-group level, including a play-off series against the South African under-23 team to qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, scoring in the NZ team's narrow 3-4 and 0-1 losses in that series. All of his early career was spent as a midfielder or striker, until converting to defence at K.S.V. Roeselare in Belgium. His first professional club was Rotherham in England, who signed him as a teenager on the recommendation of former New Zealand national coach and ex Rotherham player, Kevin Fallon. From there he signed for KSV Roeselare in the 1990s, his first of two periods with the club. He is the first New Zealander to play in the Belgian First Division.^{[citation needed]}

International career[edit]

Bouckenooghe played 35 A-internationals for the New Zealand national soccer team, the All Whites scoring 2 goals.^[1]^[2] His career highlights include playing at both the 1999^[3] and 2003 Confederations Cup in Mexico and France respectively.

Honours[edit]

Belgian Second Division:
- Runner-up (1): 2004-05

Belgium Premier Division 2005-06 New Zealand International player of the year 1999

References[edit]

^ "A-International Appearances - Overall". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
^ "A-International Scorers - Overall". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Archived from the original on 16 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
^ "1999 Confederation Cup Squad". NZ Football. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2008.

External links[edit]

Chris Bouckenooghe – FIFA competition record (archived)

[aapp-1] "A-International Appearances - Overall". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2008.

[agoal-2] "A-International Scorers - Overall". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Archived from the original on 16 June 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2008.

[3] "1999 Confederation Cup Squad". NZ Football. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2008.

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