 Hasselbaink was born on 27 March 1972 in Paramaribo , Suriname ( then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ) to Frank Ware and Cornelli Hasselbaink ; he was the youngest of six children . At the age of three Hasselbaink was run over by a moped which broke his right leg . In October 1978 , his mother took him and three siblings to live in Zaandam , Netherlands ; his father remained in Suriname and rarely contacted the family . The next year Hasselbaink began playing youth football for Gestaagt Volharding Overwint ( GVO ) , initially as a goalkeeper . He later played for Zaansche Football club ( ZFC ) and Zaanlandia as a right winger . He joined a street gang as a teenager and spent three months in a youth detention facility for stealing . After his release he joined the youth team at DWS , but was dismissed from the club for stealing the watch of a first @-@ team player . He began his senior career with Telstar , while still a gang member , and had disciplinary issues at the club due to his persistent lateness . He made his Eerste Divisie debut on 27 October 1990 , in a 2 – 0 defeat at VVV @-@ Venlo . Head coach Niels Overweg sacked him after he turned up late to a match . 
