Chris Spears

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Christian Mijkaael van Nooijkaar-Spears (born April 9, 1980 in Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch football player who plays as a striker. He is currently playing for Tekken City in the FA Barclays Premiership and is also the captain for the Dutch National team.

Biography

Spears was born and raised with both his grandparents who both originated from Germany, Frederich, who worked as a farmer and part-time windmill worker, and Beatrix (grandmother), and and his mother, Martha in a small town in Utrecht known as "Driebergen-Rijsenberg". The house was situated in the rural-heritage areas of Driebergen, a typical countryside cottage. Before Spears was born, his Grandparents lived in Leipzig for 24 years before they decided to move across to the Netherlands. Martha was born and raised in the town. Spears because of this is a third of German descent, but has full Dutch citizenship. He is able to speak and understand both Dutch and German fluently as well as Spanish, Italian and English.

He has an older brother called Sebastian, who is employed as a coach for a kids soccer camp. Sebastian did train along with Chris with the FC Utrecht team but physical shape and lack of staminal abilities cost him a place for a contract. He played as a defender.

International Career

For the Netherlands national team, he has won 91 caps, scoring over 30 goals, meaning has scored a goal every other game. For Tekken City, he has been highly impressive, in 8 serving years for The Buzzards he has scored 243 goals in 351 appearances. During the 2004-2005 season, he managed to strike a perfect 50 goals in just the FA Barclays Premiership alone.

Spears scored two goals during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. His first came against Serbia and Montenegro turning out to be the only goal in a 1-0 win, and then he scored a free kick against the Ivory Coast the following game, to which the Netherlands won 2-1.

On September 2, 2006, Spears was given the biggest opportunity to captain the Netherlands during both the Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He was given the captain armband by his coach, Marco van Basten after leading the team superbly in a 1-0 win over Luxembourg in a qualifier. Spears then captained his country for the first time on Dutch home soil against Belarus. Netherlands won 3-0. Manchester United keeper, Edwin Van der Sar stepped down as captain before the Luxembourg match. A majority of Dutch supporters have labelled Spears as "Der Kaptein" (The Captain) or "De Konig" (The King).

Advertising Career

Spears currently sponsors the the famous sunglasses brands, Oakley and Police. He is also a famous underwear model for Calvin Klein alongside Swedish football players, Frederik Ljungberg and Olof Mellberg. He is also a common freestyle footballer, and has featured in a host of nike commercials, most adverts currently involve Eric Cantona's commercials, Joga Bonito. His most recent, which aired on British TV in mid-August, was of a freestyle stunt which also starrs RnB singer, Rihanna. Spears is also a fashion icon for a number of fragrances and designer clothes manufactured by the famous brand, Georgio Armani.

Personal Life

Chris Spears now lives in a huge country house in Stannington, on the outskirts of Newcastle-upon-tyne, England. About 15 minutes away from Tekken City's training ground in Meldon. he has lived there since he joined the English club in 1997. Spears is also a social golf player and has also grown fond of Tennis.

Spears is dating young American singer, Joanna Levesque (JoJo) and has been doing so for almost 3 and a half years. The two met at the Riverside Stadium when JoJo went to see her first game as a celebrity season ticket holder as a Tekken City fan. Spears played as Tekken City drew 0-0 with Middlesbrough in a Premiership game in 2004.

On September 8, 2005, Chris Spears split up with JoJo because of huge Paparazzi death threats, accusing Spears of Pedophilia. It however, prevented Spears from losing any kind of form he had been building with Tekken City. December 2, 2006 however, saw the two revive their relationship.

Spears and JoJo were both married at St Dominic's Primary Church in Newcastle on April 5, 2007.