Great Pufos of the Spanish League: Ferdinand Fourclaw

Last update 13 April, 2026 by Alberto Llopis

Do you know who Ferdinand Vierklau is??, Remember passing through the Tenerife?. In the decade of 90, with the opening of the market following the Bosman ruling, They reached all the leagues but especially the Spanish one, a series of players of dubious quality and career. Rare was the First Division team that did not have among its ranks an unknown player signed at a gold price and sold as a high-level player. This Dutch defender looking like a nightclub doorman was one of them..

Tenerife, like almost all the clubs they stepped on ‘The Star League‘ and the millions watched on TV, signed players of a very dubious level. Among them, our hero, a guy that surely many do not even remember.

Ferdinand Fourclaw, one more of the Bosman Law

We talk about Ferdi Vierklau, a burly Dutch player who arrived on the sunny Canary Island in 1997. Born in 1973, in Bilthoven, Netherlands, He proved to be a player with an impressive physique but with a quality more than questionable. At least to play in the Spanish First Division. But in that crazy time in the clubs, it was worth almost everything.

To top, their nightlife on the tropical island was rumored to be more than hectic, which made its performance less than discreet. During the year and a half that he was in Tenerife, Vierklau played with more pain than glory 24 matches in its first season and 8 in the second.

evil tongues say, that he was a better DJ on Canarian nights than a footballer, he was better known for his exploits by the locals than for his handling of the ball on the Heliodoro pitch. The truth is that he was a player of poor technical quality and from what it seems, not very committed.

After Tenerife he went to an entire Ajax team where he played 40 matches in four seasons in which he was there. Something that raises the question of how he could remain for so many years without practically playing.. In 2003, con 30 years, He retired from active football and will be remembered as one of the worst players in the history of Tenerife, if someone, remembers it beyond PC Soccer.