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Ab Fafié (born March 4, 1941 in Rotterdam , South Holland , † November 28, 2012 ) was a Dutch football player and coach. He played as a defender at the first division level for the Rotterdam clubs Feijenoord and Xerxes as well as for PSV Eindhoven . He has also worked as a trainer for Feyenoord and, among others, for FC Utrecht , AEK Athens and KAA Gent .

Career in the club

Fafié played for his hometown club Feoenoord when he was young and was already in the squad of the honorary division as an 18-year-old in the 1959/60 season . He made his debut on December 13, 1959 in a 4-1 win against the Enschede sports club . In the further course of the season he was used three more times, but could not establish himself in the team, so that after three seasons without first division appearances he moved to local rivals Xerxes in 1963, who was only third class at the time. However, the team was able to rise twice in a row in 1965 and 1966, so that Fafié again ran up in the first division in the 1966/67 and 1967/68 seasons - this time as a regular of his team on the position of left defender . The team included former and future national players such as Wim van Hanegem , Hans Dorjee , Lazar Radović and goalkeeper Eddy Treijtel . His only goal in the top division he scored on April 15, 1968 against NAC Breda . After the relegation of Xerxes / DHC'66 in 1968, Fafié moved to Eindhoven together with Radović and trainer Kurt Linder . At PSV, however, he was unable to assert himself due to several injuries and ended his active career two seasons later in the summer of 1970.

Stations

As a trainer

After his active time, Fafié worked early as a coach for various amateur clubs. In 1981 he moved from Rotterdam's CVV Mercurius to his old club Feyenoord, where he initially worked as a youth coach and a year later as an assistant to Hans Kraay senior . When Kraay was on leave, he took over the post of head coach on an interim basis. Two years later he became the head coach of Thijs Libregts - with whom Feyenoord won the double in 1984 - and stayed until the end of the 1985/86 season. He spent the following season in Greece , where he first trained AEK Athens and, after being released, PAS Ioannina there . After a break of a year, he took over the Belgian first division KAA Gent for the 1988/89 season . After another year without a club, FC Utrecht brought him in 1990 to replace Cees Loffeld . In Utrecht he celebrated his most successful time as a coach; he led the team in the 1990/91 season to the second-best placement in the history of the club in fourth place in the Eredivisie and thus in the UEFA Cup , which earned him the nickname Koning Ad ("King Ad"). In the UEFA Cup, however, the FCU failed in the second round to Real Madrid . The successes of this season could not be repeated. Fafié stayed in Utrecht for four years before moving to AEK Larnaka . But this commitment ended after a few months. He briefly helped out with the Go Ahead Eagles in Deventer in 1995 and went to Indonesia in 1997, first to Raya Bandung and then to Persija Jakarta , his last coaching station.

Stations

Web links

Remarks

  1. Player archive at Feyenoord-Online
  2. until 1970 in this notation, only then with y instead of ij
  3. After the 1966/67 season, Xerxes merged with DHC'66, the professional division of DHC Delft .
  4. Oud-PSV'er Ab Fafié (71) overleden ( Memento from December 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), PSV club homepage from November 29, 2012
  5. ↑ Bet numbers according to Ab Fafié ( memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) and player profile at Voetbal International
  6. Compare the list in the player archive at Feyenoord-Online