Danny Blind

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Danny Blind
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Danny Blind
Personnel
Surname Dirk Franciscus Blind
birthday August 1, 1961
place of birth Oost-Souburg ,  Netherlands
size 176 cm
position Center-back , Libero
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1986 Sparta Rotterdam 165 (18)
1986-1999 Ajax Amsterdam 372 (27)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1986-1996 Netherlands 42 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2005 Ajax Amsterdam U19
2005-2006 Ajax Amsterdam
2009-2011 Ajax Amsterdam (assistant coach)
2012-2015 Netherlands (assistant coach)
2015-2017 Netherlands
1 Only league games are given.

Dirk Franciscus (Danny) Blind (born August 1, 1961 in Oost-Souburg ) is a former Dutch football player and coach .

Career as a player

Blind played as a right defender at the clubs RCS Oost-Souburg, Sparta Rotterdam and Ajax Amsterdam .

With Ajax Amsterdam he was five times Dutch champion, four times Dutch cup winner and three times Dutch Supercup winner between 1986 and 1999. In 1987, 1992 and 1995 Blind won the European Cup Winners' Cup , the UEFA Cup and the Champions League in succession with Ajax . This makes Blind one of the few players who managed to win all three European cups. He also won the European Supercup and the World Cup with the club in 1995 . In 1995 and 1996 he was voted Footballer of the Year in the Netherlands. Blind played a total of 51 European Cup games as a player.

In April 1986 Blind made his debut in the Dutch national football team . Until he retired from the national team after the European Football Championship in 1996 , he played a total of 42 international matches. The only goal of his national team career he scored in December 1991 in the European Championship qualifier against Greece .

In 1999 Blind ended his active career.

Career as a trainer and functionary

Between 2005 and 2006 he was head coach at Ajax Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2008 Blind was Technical Director at his old club Sparta Rotterdam. In 2008 he returned to Ajax for the new season, where he initially held the post of Technical Director. Since the 2009/10 season, Danny Blind was assistant coach at the Dutch record champions. First he worked under Martin Jol , from 2010 to 2011 under Frank de Boer . He resigned from the position he subsequently assumed as sports director in February 2012 after a dispute with the chairman of the board, Johan Cruyff .

On August 1, 2012, he and Patrick Kluivert took over the post of assistant coach of the Dutch national team . Both assist bond coach Louis van Gaal and received contracts until after the 2014 World Cup . In March 2014, Blind, who is Guus Hiddink's assistant coach with Ruud van Nistelrooy from 2014 to 2016 , extended his contract until after the European Football Championship in 2016 . After Guus Hiddink's contract was terminated, Blind took over the position of bond coach on July 1, 2015. He missed qualifying for the 2016 European Football Championship. After a 2-0 defeat in Bulgaria and a disappointing fourth place after five games in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , he was dismissed on March 26, 2017.

On March 17, 2018, Ajax Amsterdam announced that Blind was running for its board . Blind has the "full support of the majority shareholders".

Private life

Danny Blind's son Daley Blind (* 1990) is also a Dutch national soccer player and has been back in the Ajax squad since summer 2018 after a commitment at Manchester United.

Sporting successes

National

International

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Standard: Danny Blind dumped ; News from May 16, 2006
  2. ↑ Kluivert assistant bij Oranje ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (German: Kluivert assistant near Oranje), notification on the KNVB homepage of July 31, 2012 (accessed on August 1, 2012).
  3. ↑ Bonds coach becomes blind. In: fussball-em-total.de. FUSSBALL-EM-total, July 1, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Netherlands miss European Championship qualification. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, October 14, 2015, accessed March 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ KNVB en blind uit elkaar. In: knvb.nl. KNVB, March 26, 2017, accessed March 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ex-Bondscoach Blind is running for Ajax board. In: transfermarkt.de. Transfermarkt, March 17, 2018 .;
personal data
SURNAME Blind, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blind, Dirk Franciscus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oost-Souburg , Netherlands