Career
After the World Hockey Cup in Kuala Lumpur (2002) he retired from the national squad, but in 2004 he made a comeback, just because of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished second. Eikelboom played 177 international matches for the Dutch, in which he scored a total number of 58 goals. He made his debut on June 5, 1994 in a friendly against New Zealand.