![]() In the 1997–98 season, the 14-year-old Huntelaar was the main striker for the C-team at De Graafschap and scored 33 goals in 20 matches. During his first two years with De Graafschap, Huntelaar played in various positions including left wing, attacking midfield, left back, and even goalkeeper only in his third year was he deployed as a striker. Soon after, he was scouted by De Graafschap and on 6 April 1994 he signed his first youth contract, aged 10. He is the all-time top scorer of the Netherlands U-21 national team with 18 goals in 23 appearances. He was also named as one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. Huntelaar was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and Ajax "Player of the Year" in 2006, and was a part of the Dutch side that won the 2006 UEFA U-21 Championship where he became the tournament's leading goalscorer and received the player of the tournament award. Huntelaar is also Schalke's second highest goalscorer of all time, behind Klaus Fischer. Huntelaar played for PSV, De Graafschap, AGOVV Apeldoorn, Heerenveen, Ajax, Real Madrid and Milan, before joining Schalke 04 in August 2010, for whom he was the top goalscorer in the 2011–12 Bundesliga with 29 league goals.
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