![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/im-a-former-prem-star-but-im-done-with-football/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/marco-boogers-dutch-eredivisie-match-842402336.jpg&description=SPECIAL DELIVERY Published : 10:46, 4 Sep 2023 FORMER West Ham flop Marco Boogers has swapped the Premier League for parcels... by founding a courier company. The Dutch striker failed to deliver following his 1995 move from Sparta Rotterdam, just making four sub appearances. 4 Marco Boogers joined West Ham in 1996 Credit: Allsport - Getty 4 Boogers founded a courier company after retiring from football Credit: Getty He was sent off at Manchester United for a high challenge on Gary Neville, earning a four-match ban. Despite paying a then hefty £1million for Boogers, boss Harry Redknapp deemed him not the full package - and shipped him out after signing Iain Dowie to replace him. The striker was even rumoured to have taken refuge in a caravan in Holland, although the story was later put down to a misunderstanding between two Upton Park staff. He went home in February 1996 to recover from a knee op, and never returned to London. Boogers played for seven Dutch clubs in all, ending his post-Hammers career with Groningen and Waalwijk. He went on to set up the QLS Fulfilment & Pakketdienst logistics company in his home town Dordrecht. It now employs over 350 people. And the 56-year-old has turned his back on football with few regrets. Boogers said: "During my playing career my wife Patricia wasn't able to work, as she was looking after our kids. FREE BETS - BEST BETTING OFFERS AND BONUSES NEW CUSTOMERS "When I retired I told her: 'It's your time now.' Her parents used to deliver parcels for the Selektvracht company. "She took it over from them, and it grew massively in a short amount of time. The coronavirus crisis created huge demand. "We moved to bigger premises, but within a month we had already outgrown them, and since then our turnover has become huge. "That is great, although the money doesn't interest me - just as it didn't while I was a footballer. We wanted to leave something for our children and grandchildren. "The firm has grown bigger and faster that we eve){kind=link}
FORMER West Ham flop Marco Boogers has swapped the Premier League for parcels… by founding a courier company.
The Dutch striker failed to deliver following his 1995 move from Sparta Rotterdam, just making four sub appearances.
He was sent off at Manchester United for a high challenge on Gary Neville, earning a four-match ban.
Despite paying a then hefty £1million for Boogers, boss Harry Redknapp deemed him not the full package – and shipped him out after signing Iain Dowie to replace him.
The striker was even rumoured to have taken refuge in a caravan in Holland, although the story was later put down to a misunderstanding between two Upton Park staff.