Jack Reynolds (football player, 1881)

Jack Reynolds
Jack Reynolds, 1947
Personnel
Surname	John Reynolds
birthday	September 23, 1881
place of birth	Manchester ,  England
date of death	November 8, 1962
Place of death	Amsterdam ,  Netherlands
position	Winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1902	Manchester City	0 0(0)
1903	Burton United	32 0(3)
1904-1905	Grimsby Town	29 0(3)
1905-1907	Sheffield Wednesday	2 0(0)
1907-1908	Watford FC	27 0(4)
1908-1911	New Brompton FC	97 (15)
1911-1912	Rochdale AFC	28 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1912-1914	FC St. Gallen
1915-1925	Ajax Amsterdam
1916-1917	HFC heroes
1919	Netherlands
1925-1928	Blauw Wit Amsterdam
1928-1940	Ajax Amsterdam
1945-1947	Ajax Amsterdam
1 Only league games are given.

John "Jack" Reynolds (born September 23, 1881 in Manchester , † November 8, 1962 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) was an English football player and football coach .

Reynolds gained notoriety above all as the coach of the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam , an office which he held for 27 years with interruptions.

Life

Playing career (1902–1914)

Born in Manchester in 1881 , Jack Reynolds was considered a relatively mediocre talented football player. In his twelve-year career he was under contract with seven clubs without achieving any major success. In the First Division he played 1905-07 only two games for The Wednesday . In the Second Division he was active in 1903/04 for Burton United and in 1904/05 with Grimsby Town . With New Bromnpton and Watford he played in the second division of the Southern Football League , with Rochdale in the amateur area.

FC St. Gallen (1912-1914)

Reynolds began his career as a football coach in 1912 at the Swiss FC St. Gallen . He played with St. Gallen in the eastern group of Serie A , the top division of Switzerland at the time, which was divided into three groups. In this group, St. Gallen won the runner-up behind FC Aarau with Reynolds as coach in the 1913 and 1914 seasons ; Third place was achieved in 1912.

In 1914, Reynolds left the club with the intention of preparing the German national team for the 1916 Olympic Games, but this was prevented by the First World War . Instead he went to the Netherlands .

Ajax Amsterdam (1915-1947)

In 1915, Reynolds began his time at Ajax Amsterdam, which - intermittently; Among other things, he was from 1925 to 1928 with local rivals Blauw Wit  - the following 32 years should last. Reynold doubled the number of training units from one to two evenings per week and placed particular emphasis on strength and endurance. Youth work was also one of his concerns. With Ajax he won the Dutch championship eight times between 1918 and 1947 and the cup in 1917 .

In June 1919 he also looked after the Dutch national team and led them to a 3-1 win over Sweden.

During the Second World War he was interned by the Germans in Silesia.

Retirement (1947–1962)

After Reynolds ended his coaching career in 1947, he retired and continued to live in Amsterdam, where he also ran a tobacco shop for a long time. He died in 1962 at the age of 81.

successes

As a trainer

• Dutch championship : 8 × (1918, 1919, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947)
• KNVB Cup : 1 × (1917)

literature

• Simon Kuper: Ajax, the Dutch, the War. Orion Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-7528-4274-9 .
• Douglas Lamming: A Who's Who of Grimsby Town AFC. 1890-1985. Hutton Press, Beverley 1985, ISBN 0-907033-34-2 .

Web links

Commons : Jack Reynolds  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• El Bombín - Jack Reynolds, the inventor of the 'Ajax style'
• Ajax USA - 1915–1949: The Jack Reynolds Era