Marciano Vink
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marciano Carlos Alberto Vink | ||
| Date of birth | October 17, 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Paramaribo, Suriname | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | midfield | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TOS Actief | |||
| ADE | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1993 | Ajax | 108 | (13) |
| 1993–1994 | Genoa | 13 | (2) |
| 1994–1999 | PSV Eindhoven | 48 | (5) |
| 1999–2000 | ADO Den Haag | 5 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Ajax Cape Town | 13 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 1991 | Netherlands | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Marciano Carlos Alberto Vink (born October 17, 1970 in Paramaribo, Suriname) is a former Dutch football player. Throughout his career he played primarily as a right defensive midfielder and as a right central defender. He most notably played for Ajax and PSV in the Eredivisie and Genoa in the Serie A. Injury prone since the very beginning of his career, he was forced to quit prematurely at the age of 28.
Born a few months after the 1970 FIFA World Cup into a football crazy family in Suriname, Vink thanks his middle names to the feats of the Brazil national football team that year, as he was named after its captain Carlos Alberto Torres. The Vink family moved to the Netherlands, and it was there that young Marciano learned his trade at TOS Actief and ADE in Amsterdam. A prolific young player, Vink's talents were soon noticed by the Ajax scouts and before long he was admitted to play for one of the greatest sides in European football history.
He swiftly rose through ranks of Ajax's youth Academy with players of the famed 'patat generatie', a term coined by Leo Beenhakker for spoiled Dutch football players (Richard Witschge and Brian Roy) who grew up in the 1980s spending most of their free time in snackbars and seriously lacked in combativeness. This generation consisted of a number of extremely talented players such as: Dennis Bergkamp, Frank de Boer, Ronald de Boer, Clarence Seedorf, Ronald Koeman and Marco van Basten. Vink was deemed to be a huge prospect and was heralded to become the next Frank Rijkaard. His rise through the youth ranks and his debut at the age of 18 in 1988 were, however, no indication of how his career would ultimately unfold. He would play 108 matches in his 5-year stint with Ajax until coach Louis van Gaal decided to dismantle the team that won the UEFA Cup in 1992 to make way for a younger generation of players such as Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf, Michael Reiziger and Edgar Davids. In 1993 Vink therefore opted for Italian side Genoa.
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