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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 February 2004 | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AZ Alkmaar | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2015 | DVC Buiksloot | ||
| 2015– | AZ Alkmaar | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Jong AZ | 77 | (23) |
| 2024– | AZ | 5 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | Netherlands U18 | 3 | (2) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 August 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 7 November 2024 | |||
Ro-Zangelo Daal (born 10 February 2004) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a winger for Jong AZ and AZ Alkmaar, making his debut for the senior team during the 2024-25 season in the Eredivisie and also playing for the club in the UEFA Europa League.
He was born in Amsterdam. [1] He played as youngster at DVC Buiksloot, before moving across in 2015 to the AZ Alkmaar academy, Daal signed a contract with AZ in the summer of 2021. His form for the AZ youth sides saw him being offered a new and extended contract in March 2022 to keep him in Alzmaar until 2025. [2] Daal has been tipped as a "wonderkid" in the football management computer game Football Manager in both 2021 and 2022. [3] [4]
Daal made his debut for Jong AZ against Jong PSV in a home 2–0 win in the Eerste Divisie on 1 April 2022. [5] [6] Daal scored his first senior league goal on 3 February 2023 in a 4–3 win against VVV Venlo. [7]
On 21 April 2023 Daal scored as AZ won through against Sporting Lisbon to reach the final of the 2022–23 UEFA Youth League. [8] He also played in the UEFA Youth League final against Hajduk Split as AZ ran out 5–0 winners. [9] On 1 January 2024, he signed a new 4 and-a-half year contract with the club. [10]
On 7 November 2024, he opened the scoring for AZ in a 3-1 win over Fenerbache in the UEFA Europa League. [11] He also featured for the club in the Eredivisie in a 2-1 home defeat to Willem II Tilburg on 10 November 2024. [12] In January 2025, AZ officially announced that Ro-Zangelo Daal had been moved up from Jong AZ team to the AZ first team squad. [1]
Born in the Netherlands, Daal is of Surinamese descent. [13] He scored for the Dutch under-18 national side in a 5–0 win over Italy under-18s in September 2021. [14]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Jong AZ | 2021–22 | Eerste Divisie | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Eerste Divisie | 12 | 2 | — | — | 12 | 2 | |||
| 2023–24 | Eerste Divisie | 32 | 6 | — | — | 32 | 6 | |||
| 2024–25 | Eerste Divisie | 31 | 3 | — | — | 31 | 3 | |||
| Total | 77 | 23 | — | — | 77 | 23 | ||||
| AZ | 2024–25 | Eredivisie | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 [a] | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025–26 | Eredivisie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 [b] | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 82 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 90 | 24 | ||
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