George Knobel

George Knobel
George Knobel in 1977
Personnel
Surname	George Knobel
birthday	December 10, 1922
place of birth	Roosendaal ,  Netherlands
date of death	May 5, 2012
Place of death	Roosendaal ,  Netherlands
position	Forward / midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1936	RBC Roosendaal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1936-1959	RBC Roosendaal
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1966-1969	VV Barony
1969-1973	MVV Maastricht
1973-1974	Ajax Amsterdam
1974-1976	Netherlands
1976-1988	MVV Maastricht
1980	Hong Kong
1981	Seiko SA
1983	Seiko SA
1 Only league games are given.

George Knobel (born December 10, 1922 in Roosendaal , † May 5, 2012 there ) was a Dutch football player and coach .

Life

George Knobel, who came from a poor background, was like his father a cigar maker and from the age of fourteen played semi-professionally with RBC Roosendaal in the second division. Knobel played for this club until he was 37, first as a striker and after a broken leg in midfield. George Knobel started as a trainer in Fijnaart and then worked for VV Baronie in Breda before taking over MVV Maastricht for the first time in 1969 . In 1973 he succeeded the Romanian Ștefan Kovács at Ajax Amsterdam . With the Amsterdamers in decline after the end of their heyday, he was fired in April 1974 after saying in an interview that alcohol and women were ruining the club.

In the same year he succeeded Rinus Michels as national coach after the World Cup , at which the Netherlands were runner-up . He led the Elftal through qualifying for the finals of the 1976 European Championship in Yugoslavia . There the Netherlands lost to the tournament winner Czechoslovakia in the semifinals , but finally won the game for third place against the hosts. He saw the team as divided and had therefore already submitted his resignation before the tournament. He then trained again for two years at MVV Maastricht, which he returned to the first division in 1978, and then Beerschot in Belgium. Between 1980 and 1987 he was in Hong Kong and trained in those years their selection and Seiko Hong Kong . In 1994 he became Technical Director at RBC Roosendaal, where former national player Jan Poortvliet was head coach.

Knobel's wife succumbed to Alzheimer's disease in 2010 , which he was diagnosed with a little later. He left two daughters and a son.

Record as national coach of the Netherlands

	Term of office	S.	G - U - V
	September 4, 1974 - June 19, 1976	15th	9 - 1 - 5

Web links

• Marcel van Lieshout, Paul Onkenhout: Rijk met een stuiver en vergroeid met voetbal Volkskrant, April 20, 1996 (removed: May 21, 2011)
• rsssf.com

supporting documents

1. ↑ DeStem.nl: Oud-bondscoach George Knobel op 89-jarige leeftijd overleden , Dutch , accessed on May 6, 2012