Barry Hulshoff

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Barry Hulshoff
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Barry Hulshoff, 1971
Personnel
Surname Bernardus Adriaan Hulshoff
birthday September 30, 1946
place of birth Deventer ,  Netherlands
position Pre-stopper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1977 Ajax Amsterdam 283 (17)
1977-1979 MVV Maastricht 53 0(5)
1982 Graz AK 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1973 Netherlands 14 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987-1989 Ajax Amsterdam (staff coach)
1989-1991 Lierse SK
1994-1995 KVC Westerlo
1996 KSK Beveren
1997-1998 Germinal beerschot
1998 VV St. Truiden
1999 SK Lebeke-Aalst
2001-2002 KV Mechelen
1 Only league games are given.

Bernardus Adriaan Hulshoff (born September 30, 1946 in Deventer - † February 16, 2020 ) was a Dutch football player and coach . As a player, the Vorstopper was part of the Golden Era of Ajax Amsterdam from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. An injury prevented his participation in the 1974 World Cup . As a coach, he worked for some time at Ajax and several clubs in Belgium.

Life

Barry Hulshoff started playing football as a youth at AVV Zeeburgia, but left the club after arguments and joined Ajax Amsterdam as a 16-year-old. His beginnings there were not exactly marked by success and he was soon passed on from the A1 to the A4 youth. At that time he was questioned as an "anti-soccer player" and compared to a question mark about his typical posture. But in the A4 he was repositioned from left full-back to center-back and fate turned. Soon he was even captain of the youth national team under coach Georg Keßler and played there alongside Johan Cruyff , Willy van der Kuijlen and Wim Jansen, among others .

The heyday of Ajax

In 1964 Hulshoff was finally included in the professional squad of Ajax, but initially only played in the B team. Between 1965 and 1966 he had his first appearances in the fighting team, which won the championship titles of 1966 and 1967, as well as the cup in the final against NAC Breda last year . From the 1967/68 season he had finally prevailed as a regular player and formed together with the Yugoslav national player Velibor Vasović , who played Libero , who had come from the 1966 European Cup finalists Partizan Belgrade in the previous year , the central defense. Ajax won the third championship title in a row in 1968.

The introverted Hulshoff was not without controversy. On the one hand, he was considered technically too unshod for the team, on the other hand, Hulshoff was dissatisfied with his relationship with the strict trainer Rinus Michels . "I never had a conversation with Michels that lasted more than three minutes," he once complained. Hulshoff also said that Michels would never have explained the real reasons for his decisions, for example if he was not allowed to play.

At the end of the 1968/69 season, the team could not boast any new titles, but entered the European limelight for the first time when they moved into the European Cup final in 1969 . AC Milan was waiting there with its stars Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Giovanni Trapattoni and midfield conductor Gianni Rivera . The young Dutch couldn't match the experience of the 1963 European Cup winners and clearly lost 4-1 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid in front of just 32,000 spectators, although many believed that Ajax would have looked better than the result said.

Hulshoff scores against East Germany (1971)
Cruijff and Hulshoff (r) after the 1973 EC final

In 1970 Ajax won two more titles by winning the double of the cup and the championship, and qualified again for the European Cup. In 1971 Ajax had to give way to the then main rival Feyenoord Rotterdam nationally in the championship and could only win the cup, but again reached the final of the European Cup, this time in London's Wembley Stadium against Panathinaikos Athens . A long pass from Hulshoff in the fifth minute to left winger Piet Keizer , whose cross Dick van Dijk headed to 1-0, initiated Ajax's victory. In the end, the club won 2-0 in a style-defining manner - with the so-called total football  - for the first time the European Champions Cup. In October of the same year Barry Hulshoff celebrated his first international appearance. In the 3-2 victory of the Netherlands over the GDR , Hulshoff, who is now known for his assaults into the attack center, scored the 1-1 equalizer. In this game he also played his way into the regular formation of the national team supervised by František Fadrhonc . In the two other international matches of the year, he also contributed one goal each. In the first international match in 1972 - a 5-0 win in Greece - there were even two.

At club level he had a new partner in central defense from the 1971/72 season. Horst Blankenburg , who came from TSV 1860 Munich , replaced the “thinker” Velibor Vasović, who ended his career for health reasons, and the Romanian Ștefan Kovács replaced Rinus Michels, who went to Barcelona. In the eyes of many, Ajax gained in enthusiasm and creativity as a result. 1972 was the most successful year in the club's history. The trophy could be defended, the championship regained - and in the final of the European Cup, this time in Rotterdam, Ajacieden defeated Inter Milan with defender Giacinto Facchetti , midfield conductor Sandro Mazzola and star striker Roberto Boninsegna with two Cruyff goals 2-0. Ajax won the fourth title of the year in September in two hard-fought games against Copa Libertadores winner CA Independiente from the industrial suburb of Avellaneda in Bonaren, the world cup . Ajax drew in Argentina and made everything clear in the second leg with 3-0.

In 1973 Ajax defended the championship title and won the European Cup for the third time in a row, this time thanks to a Johnny Rep goal in the fourth minute through a somewhat laborious 1-0 win against Juventus Turin in Belgrade, in which the Amsterdam defense won excellent. For the time being, this was Ajax's last great success, because at the end of the season Johan Cruyff left the club to join Rinus Michels at FC Barcelona , which set in a lasting decline. The national team, however, qualified for the 1974 World Cup in Germany. This was not least thanks to Barry Hulshoff, who at the time had a striking full beard. In September 1973 in the penultimate World Cup qualifier in Oslo, he scored the 2-1 winner against the Norwegians three minutes before the end. That was his sixth and last international goal. In the remainder of the game, a happy 0-0 win against Belgium in November was enough for the Oranjes to qualify thanks to a better goal difference.

This was Hulshoff's last international appearance. He was unable to participate in the World Cup due to an injury, which was felt by many to be a major weakening of the Dutch defense line. In return, Barry Hulshoff was able to console himself with a little cameo in the film Op de Hollandse toer by director Wim Sonneveld , which he also received in 1973.

With Ajax, Barry Hulshoff only won the championship from 1977. In the following two seasons he played at MVV Maastricht .

The Austrian Heinz Schilcher , with whom he played at Ajax in the early 1970s and is now a coach, persuaded him to make a comeback in defense of the Grazer AK in 1982 . Hulshoff quickly found out that it wasn't quite enough even for Austria and so he only made three top division games and was also involved in both games in the first round of the UEFA Cup against the Romanian club Corvinul Hunedoara . He was then technical director at Styria, but had to return to Holland shortly before the start of the 1983/84 season for personal reasons.

Trainer and manager

In 1987, Barry Hulshoff joined the Ajax coaching staff. After Ajax's head coach Johan Cruyff resigned in January 1988, a triumvirate consisting of Hulshoff, Antoine Kohn and Bobby Haarms took over the management of the team. It was Barry Hulshoff decided to sit on the bench as the main responsible for the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in Strasbourg against KV Mechelen in May . After Ajaciede Danny Blind was sent off in the 15th minute, Ajax lost 0-1. In the national championship, Ajax finished second behind PSV Eindhoven and the triumvirate was replaced by the German Kurt Linder , who was head coach at the club in 1981/82. Hulshoff stayed with the staff until 1990.

From the 1990s, Hulshoff made Belgium the focus of his activities and he trained there at KVC Westerlo , Lierse SK , KSK Beveren , Beerschot VAC , K Sint-Truidense VV , SK Aalst and between 2001 and 2002 at KV Mechelen . These engagements were consistently unsuccessful and Mechelen was even relegated to the second division under his aegis.

In 2002 he returned to the Netherlands and became Technical Director at Willem II , where he said goodbye in March of the next year. This was followed in 2005 by an engagement in the same function in the USA at the Ajax subsidiary Ajax Orlando in Florida, where he succeeded his former teammate Wim Suurbier . But even there the activity was not long-term, because Ajax Orlando stopped playing in mid-2006 and was dissolved. He remained head of Ajax's North American operations until 2012, which most recently included a California-based women's team.

When the former Belgian national player and today's coach Jan Ceulemans returned to KVC Westerlo after a two-year absence in 2007, Hulshoff came back to the club, where he was already at the beginning of the 1990s. In the coaching staff of Ceulemans, he was mainly entrusted with the management of the youth team. After being appointed head coach in May 2012, the former Belgian international Frank Dauwen brought Hulshoff to his staff as an assistant.

In 2010, at the instigation of Johan Cruiff, he also became a member of the Ajax Board of Members. Later he was also an advisor to some players like Matthijs de Ligt .

Barry Hulshoff died in February 2020 after a brief illness. His brother Ben Hulshoff and nephew Dennis Hulshoff also had careers as professional footballers.

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Web links

Commons : Barry Hulshoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Dauwen nieuwe hoofdtrainer KVC Westerlo ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , KVC Westerloo, May 22, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Hulshoff, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulshoff, Bernardus Adriaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2020