 Bruins with Feyenoord in August 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Luigi Maud Bruins | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 9 March 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–2004 | Excelsior | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Excelsior | 66 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Feyenoord | 90 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Red Bull Salzburg | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Excelsior | 9 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Nice | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Nice II | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2021 | Excelsior | 173 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2024 | VV Smitshoek | 16 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Netherlands U21 | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | VV Zwaluwen | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 January 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 August 2007 | |||||||||||||||||
Luigi Bruins (born 9 March 1987) is a football manager and a retired Dutch professional footballer. Bruins played in the position of attacking midfielder.
After being declined by Feyenoord at the age of six, the Rotterdam-born went through the complete Excelsior youth academy. Bruins made his first team debut in the season 2004–05 and managed to win the Eerste Divisie title in the subsequent season. After a successful Eredivisie debut, Bruins signed a four-year deal with the club that first declined him, Feyenoord.
Bruins was part of the Netherlands U21 squad winning the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in 2007.