Frank Rijkaard

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Frank Rijkaard
Ajax selectie seizoen 1981 1982 no. 140a E. Ophof Speler, no. 15a F. Rijka, inventory number 253-8568.jpg
Frank Rijkaard (1981)
Personnel
Surname Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard
birthday September 30, 1962
place of birth Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
size 190 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1987 Ajax Amsterdam 206 (46)
1987-1988 Sporting Lisbon 0 0(0)
1987-1988 →  Real Saragossa  (loan) 11 0(0)
1988-1993 AC Milan 142 (16)
1993-1995 Ajax Amsterdam 55 (19)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981-1994 Netherlands 73 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2000 Netherlands
2001-2002 Sparta Rotterdam
2003-2008 FC Barcelona
2009-2010 Galatasaray Istanbul
2011-2013 Saudi Arabia
1 Only league games are given.

Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard (born September 30, 1962 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch football player and coach .

As part of the "Dutch axis" at AC Milan , he won the European Cup as a player and the European Championship as a Dutch national player . As coach of FC Barcelona, ​​he won the Champions League . In Germany he was best known for his spit attack against Rudi Völler at the 1990 World Cup .

Personal

Rijkaard is married to the former nanny of his first two children and has four children in total.

Player career

society

Ajax Amsterdam

Rijkaard in the jersey of Ajax Amsterdam (1985)

Rijkaard started his professional career at Ajax Amsterdam in 1980 . As early as the 1980/81 season, head coach Leo Beenhakker ordered him into the club's professional squad. The midfielder finally made his debut on August 23, 1980. In the game against the Go Ahead Eagles , he also scored his first goal for Ajax. In the course of his first year as a professional, the then young player came to regular appearances.

In the following year Rijkaard celebrated his first championship with the AFC . 1982/83 this title could be defended. Another national championship was won in 1985. During his first seven years in Amsterdam, there were three triumphs in the KNVB Cup in addition to his league successes . In 1986/87 the midfield all-rounder won his first international title. The club reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . Well-known teams such as Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Saragossa were defeated. In the final, the team faced 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig . The game was won 1-0.

Change abroad

In September 1987 there was a break between the midfielder and coach Johan Cruyff . Because of this, Rijkaard went abroad and signed with Sporting Lisbon . Since this change took place too late, Rijkaard was banned from all competitions. Therefore, those responsible for Sporting decided to lend it to the Spanish representative Real Saragossa . During this time, Rijkaard signed a contract with AC Milan and joined this for the 1988/89 season. There he developed into one of the best defensive midfielders in the world. The Dutch axis at the traditional Italian club with Rijkaard on the defensive, Ruud Gullit as midfield director and Marco van Basten as striker, ensured the most successful period in the history of AC Milan. In 1989 they won the European Cup against Steaua Bucharest , and the following year against Benfica Lisbon . In the 1990 final, Rijkaard scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory. In 1992 and 1993 the Italian championship was won.

Return to Ajax

In the summer of 1993, Louis van Gaal lured him back to Amsterdam. There he formed the defensive block of the Amsterdam with Danny Blind . The team won the Dutch championship straight away and was able to defend it in 1995. In 1995, the team reached the final of the European Cup, which has since been renamed the UEFA Champions League. There Rijkaard faced his old team from Milan. In the preliminary round of Group D, both teams faced each other twice. Both times the Amsterdamers prevail. This was also the case in the final, when Patrick Kluivert scored the decisive goal and Rijkaard was able to win his third national championship. With this success he ended his active career.

National team

The Surinamese Rijkaard was one of the players who won the title with the Netherlands at the 1988 European Football Championship in Germany. After the historic 2-1 semi-final success against Germany, the Netherlands defeated the Soviet Union 2-0 in the final and won an international title for the first time.

In the further course of his career Rijkaard also took part in the World Championships in 1990 and 1994 and in the 1992 European Championships in Sweden. As in 1990, the Dutch team failed in 1992 and 1994 because of the eventual winners. In Sweden 1992 was in the semi-finals against Denmark, in the USA in 1994 in the quarter-finals against Brazil.

Spit attack

In the last sixteen of the 1990 World Cup in Milan, Rijkaard and his team met the German national team . There was a scandal when Rijkaard spat at the German striker Rudi Völler when the score was 0-0. The Argentine referee Juan Carlos Loustau arranged the situation in such a way that he blamed Völler for this assault and showed both players the red card and thus sent them off. When Völler and Rijkaard went towards the cabin, the TV images captured how Rijkaard spat again in the direction of Völler. This action was considered to be one of the defining moments of the Dutch-German rivalry .

Rijkaard wrote an open letter in 1996 in which he regretted his behavior.

successes

In the club

Ajax Amsterdam
AC Milan

In the national team

Individually

Season statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
Ajax Amsterdam Eredivisie 1980/81 24 4th 6th 0 1 1 - - 31 5
1981/82 27 4th 1 0 - - - - 28 4th
1982/83 25th 3 6th 1 - - - - 31 4th
1983/84 23 9 2 0 1 0 - - 26th 9
1984/85 34 7th 4th 1 4th 1 - - 42 9
1985/86 31 9 6th 4th 2 0 - - 39 13
1986/87 34 7th 7th 0 9 2 - - 50 9
1987/88 8th 3 - - 1 1 - - 9 4th
total 206 46 32 6th 18th 5 - - 256 57
Sporting Lisbon Primeira League 1987/88 0 0 - - - - - - 0 0
total 0 0 - - - - - - 0 0
Real Zaragoza Primera División 1987/88 11 0 - - - - - - 11 0
total 11 0 - - - - - - 11 0
AC Milan Series A 1988/89 31 4th 6th 0 9 1 1 1 47 6th
1989/90 29 2 6th 0 12 2 - - 44 4th
1990/91 30th 3 2 0 7th 3 - - 39 6th
1991/92 30th 5 5 0 - - - - 35 5
1992/93 22nd 2 5 0 6th 3 - - 33 5
total 142 16 24 0 34 9 1 1 201 26th
Ajax Amsterdam Eredivisie 1993/94 30th 10 4th 0 6th 1 1 0 41 11
1994/95 26th 2 2 0 10 0 1 0 39 2
total 56 12 6th 0 16 1 2 0 80 13
Career total 415 74 62 6th 68 15th 3 1 548 96

* Source: footballdatabase.eu, national-football-teams.com

Coaching career

Frank Rijkaard alongside Ronaldinho during his time as coach of FC Barcelona (2006)

Orange

As the national coach of the Netherlands, he led his team to the semi-finals at the home European championships in 2000, where they were eliminated on penalties against Italy. Rijkaard, who had announced a few weeks earlier that only reaching the final would be of importance to him, then resigned from his office.

FC Barcelona

Despite unsuccessfulness at Sparta Rotterdam in 2001 and 2002, FC Barcelona signed him as a coach in the 2003/04 season. After winning the championship in the 2004/05 season, the first title since the 1998/1999 championship, he was able to repeat that success the following year and win the UEFA Champions League .

This makes him the fifth player to win this competition as a coach. Overall, he has already lifted the Champions League trophy four times (1989, 1990, 1995, 2006). After two disappointing years, Rijkaard was fired from the club in the summer of 2008. He has been replaced by Pep Guardiola .

Galatasaray Istanbul

On June 16, 2009 it was officially announced that Rijkaard has become coach at the Turkish club Galatasaray Istanbul from the 2009/10 season . In his first year as a coach at Galatasaray, Rijkaard and his team finished third in the Turkish championship.

In the following season after the 8th game day, Frank Rijkaard was terminated on October 20, 2010 after an agreement with the club.

Saudi Arabian national team

In early July 2011, Rijkaard signed a three-year contract with the Saudi Arabian national team to take on the head coach. The three-year contract should be endowed with 6.3 million euros. On January 15, 2013, he was released after his team left the golf cup and missed qualification for the 2014 World Cup.

successes

FC Barcelona

Web links

Commons : Frank Rijkaard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Holland stays the spit away
  2. ^ New York Times: West Germans Eliminate Dutch June 25, 1990
  3. ^ Die Welt: Open Letter: Frank Rijkaard's apology to Rudi Völler . April 25, 1996
  4. ↑ Frank Rijkaard ( English ) footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  5. ↑ Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard ( English ) national-football-teams.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ Galatasaray fires Rijkaard from October 20th on UEFA.com
  7. ↑ Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF): رسمياً ومن لندن: الهولندي رايكارد مدرباً للأخضر
  8. ↑ Al Arabiya: Saudi Arabia signs Frank Rijkaard as national football coach ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.alarabiya.net
  9. ↑ Körfez Ulusları Kupası - Frank Rijkaard Suudi Arabistan'dan kovuldu
personal data
SURNAME Rijkaard, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rijkaard, Franklin Edmundo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam