Career
He has managed various of Ajax" youth teams – formerly Ajax E1 and now Ajax B. In November 1992, Roy was traded to the Italian club Foggia and replaced as leftwinger by Marc Overmars. During his time there, he represented his country at the 1994 World Cup, scoring once as the Netherlands reached the quarter-finals. After the World Cup, he moved to England after Nottingham Forest paid their record fee of £2.9million for his services.
His first-team opportunities were limited by injury and disappointing form in 1996-1997, and Roy decided that he had seen enough of England.
After Forest"s 1996-1997 season ended in relegation from the Premiership, Roy moved to Germany in a £1.5million switch to Hertha Bachelor of Science. In 2000, he returned to his homeland and turned out for NAC Breda, where he remained until hanging up his boots in 2002. Roy came out of retirement briefly in 2004 where he had a short stint at Workington AFC scoring twice in 9 appearances.
Roy picked up 32 international caps for the Netherlands national football team, scoring nine goals. He played at the 1990 and 1994 Fédération internationale de football association World Cups and the 1992 Union of European Football Associations European Football Championships.
He worked as head coach by AFC Ajax of the East-Youth and began in summer 2010 as head coach of Jong Ajax.