Willem van Hanegem

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Willem van Hanegem
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Willem van Hanegem (1978)
Personnel
Surname Willem van Hanegem
birthday February 20, 1944
place of birth Breskens , the  Netherlands
size 185 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
FC Utrecht
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1966 Velox 109 (39)
1966-1968 XerxesDZB 68 (32)
1968-1976 Feyenoord Rotterdam 247 (88)
1976-1979 AZ Alkmaar 75 (10)
1979 Chicago Sting 27 0(6)
1979-1981 FC Utrecht 54 0(3)
1981-1983 Feyenoord Rotterdam 51 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1979 Netherlands 52 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1990-1992 UPS Holland
1992-1995 Feyenoord Rotterdam
1995-1996 Al-Hilal
1997-1999 AZ Alkmaar
2001 Sparta Rotterdam
2007-2008 FC Utrecht
1 Only league games are given.

Willem van Hanegem (born February 20, 1944 in Breskens , Zeeland ), called "de Kromme" ("the crooked"), is a Dutch football coach , former football player and football commentator . He is a member of the Forum voor Democratie party and is the father of the eponymous DJ and producer Willem van Hanegem, who is a member of the globally successful DJ duo W&W .

youth

Van Hanegem was born on February 20, 1944 in Breskens as the son of the fisherman Lo van Hanegem (1905–1944) and Anna van Grol. His mother Anna was born in Rochester , Michigan , to Dutch emigrants who had returned to Zeeland. In a bomb attack on Breskens during Operation Switchback on September 11, 1944, Willem's father Lo and his brother Izaäk died; According to van Hanegem's information, another brother and sister were also killed in World War II . Willem van Hanegem was so impressed by the events of the war that he developed a lifelong antipathy towards Germans. After the 1974 World Cup final, he was the only one to stay away from the banquet.

In the spring of 1946 his mother moved with her children to Utrecht , where Willem grew up with her and a stepfather.

Player career

Willem van Hanegem

Even the young street footballer Willem van Hanegem had a strong left foot. During a training session of the Utrecht working club Velox from the Tolsteeg district, one of the predecessor clubs of FC Utrecht , van Hanegem stood on the goal line and shot back every ball that went past the goal with such precision that coach Daan van Beek asked him to to register with the association. The club's first team, in paid football since 1958, played in the third-rate Tweede divisie . In documents from this time, Wim Hanegem (the van was suppressed in those years, even at his first internationals he was still called Willem Hanegem for the KNVB) as a youth player and a member of the second team.

After rising to the Eerste divisie in 1962 , he was part of the semi-professional squad of the league team, which, however, was still overshadowed by the “big” Utrecht clubs DOS and Elinkwijk. He played four years with Velox in the second division before moving to Eredivisie promoted XerxesDZB in Rotterdam in 1966 , who finished in tenth place in the first season. In 1968 he went to local rivals Feijenoord and celebrated his greatest successes with this club. He became Dutch champions in 1969, 1971 and 1974. In 1970, he and Feyenoord became the first Dutch club to win the European Cup , even before arch-rivals Ajax Amsterdam began their heyday. In the final in Milan his team Celtic defeated Glasgow 2-1. In the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany and also in qualifying for this tournament was van Hanegem regulars. In the 4-3-4 system of the Dutch, he usually played in the left midfield next to Neeskens and behind Rensenbrink , including in the final, which the Netherlands lost 2-1 to Germany. Two years later he was third at the European Football Championship in Yugoslavia in 1976 . 1974 year he won with Feyenoord not only the championship, but in the final against Tottenham Hotspur the UEFA Cup .

In 1976 he moved to Dutch league rivals AZ Alkmaar for three years and wanted to end his career in the USA with Chicago Sting in 1979 . However, he came back to the Netherlands that same year, playing for FC Utrecht until 1981 and again for Feyenoord until 1983.

Coaching career

After completing his active career, he first became an assistant coach at Feyenoord in 1983. He was later head coach at AZ Alkmaar, Sparta Rotterdam and from 1992 to 1995 also at Feyenoord, where he was once champion (1993) and twice cup winners (1994 and 1995). In October 1995 he was released and shortly afterwards moved to Saudi Arabia , where he took over Al-Hilal for a season .

For the Dutch Football Association he worked as a coach for the amateur national team in 1991/1992 and was Dick Advocaat's assistant coach in the Dutch national team from 2002 to 2004 .

From July 2007 to December 2008 he was the coach of the Dutch first division club FC Utrecht .

commentator

Van Hanegem was an analyst for the former Dutch pay broadcaster Canal + for a while . In 2004 he started as an analyst in the public broadcasting of the Netherlands , NOS . He has also worked as an expert on the Voetbal Inside program on RTL 7 since the 2005/2006 season and commented on the live games of the first Dutch soccer league, the Eredivisie, on Fridays . In August 2008 it was announced that Voetbal Inside would be discontinued. Van Hanegem therefore signed a contract as an expert with the successor broadcaster of Canal +, Sport 1 .

successes

Feyenoord

National team

  • Vice World Champion: 1974
  • 3rd place at the European Championship: 1976

literature

  • Frans van den Nieuwenhof: Willem van Hanegem. Buitenkant left. Amsterdam: Inside, 2019, ISBN 978-90-488-4888-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Matty Verkamman, De jonge Willem , in Hard gras , issue 21 from December 1999, online version on breskens.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sighted on October 20, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.breskens.com  
  2. ^ A b “Na de wedstrijd woonden alle Nederlandse spelers het officiële banket bij. Dat wil zeggen, always keep Willem van Hanegem: 'Ik hou niet van Duitsers ... Tachtig procent van my family is in de oorlog omgekomen; mijn vader, mijn plus, twee broers. '” , David Winner: Briljant Oranje. Het genie van het Nederlandse voetbal , LJ Veen, Amsterdam / Antwerp 2006, ISBN 90-204-0536-5 , s. 109