Van Nistelrooy: Playing time key to Hamburg move
Published
Jan. 24, 2010 11:42 a.m. ET
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Ruud van Nistelrooy says he is only moving to Bundesliga club
Hamburg from Real Madrid to play more often.
The 33-year-old Dutch striker told Marca newspaper that
leaving had been a "painful" decision. He will run a lap of honor
Sunday before Madrid's Spanish league match against Malaga.
Van Nistelrooy says he has "written a nice page in the
history of Madrid" and that his biggest disappointment was not
winning the Champions League.
He scored 60 goals in 89 appearances since arriving from
Manchester United in 2006. With the arrival of attacking stars
Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Karim Benzema, he was relegated to the
bench this season and has scored only one goal from four games.
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