Radja Nainggolan
Belgian footballer (born 1988)
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- Radja Nainggolan (born 4 May 1988) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Challenger Pro League club Patro Eisden.
- He made 367 appearances and scored 48 goals in Serie A, being named four consecutive times in its Team of the Year.
- Early life Nainggolan was born in Antwerp, the son of Lizy Bogaerts, a Belgian woman who raised him with his three half brothers and his twin sister, and Marianus Nainggolan, an Indonesian of Toba Batak background and member of the Batak Christian Protestant Church.
- His father abandoned the family when Nainggolan was still a child.
- He was raised Roman Catholic and speaks Dutch, English, French and Italian fluently.
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WikipediaRadja Nainggolan (born 4 May 1988) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Challenger Pro League club Patro Eisden.
Nicknamed Il Ninja, he spent almost his entire professional career in Italy, representing Piacenza, Cagliari, Roma and Inter Milan. He made 367 appearances and scored 48 goals in Serie A, being named four consecutive times in its Team of the Year.
A Belgium international for eight years, Nainggolan played 30 times for his country (scoring six goals) and represented it at Euro 2016.
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