Johan Neeskens

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Johan Neeskens
Johan Neeskens 1981.jpg
Johan Neeskens 1981
Personnel
Surname Johannes Jacobus Neeskens
birthday September 15, 1951
place of birth Heemstede ,  Netherlands
size 172 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1969 Racing Club Heemstede 68 0(1)
1969-1974 Ajax Amsterdam 124 (33)
1974-1979 FC Barcelona 140 (35)
1979-1984 New York Cosmos 94 (17)
1984-1985 FC Groningen 7 0(0)
1985 Minnesota Strikers
1986 Fort Lauderdale Sun
1986-1987 Lion brow (amateur)
1987-1990 FC Baar 23 0(5)
1990-1991 FC Zug 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1970-1981 Netherlands 49 (17)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991-1993 FC Zug
1993-1995 FC Stäfa
1995-1996 FC Singen 04
1995-2000 Netherlands (assistant coach)
2000-2004 NEC Nijmegen
2005-2006 Australia (assistant coach)
2006-2008 FC Barcelona (assistant coach)
2008-2009 Netherlands B team
2009-2010 Galatasaray Istanbul (Assistant Coach)
2011–2012 Mamelodi Sundowns
1 Only league games are given.

Johan Neeskens (born September 15, 1951 in Heemstede , North Holland ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach .

Player career

society

Neeskens began playing professional football in 1968 at Racing Club Heemstede in the Eerste Divisie , before moving to the traditional Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam in the Eredivisie the following year . At the beginning of his time in Amsterdam, the then youngster played as a right defender, but in the course of the following years he moved into central midfield, where he pulled the strings behind Johan Cruyff . In 1971 he won his first national championship, which could be defended in the season on it. Between 1971 and 1973 Neeskens won the European Cup three times with Ajax as well as the UEFA Super Cup and the World Cup once each . In 1974 he followed his compatriot Cruyff to FC Barcelona , where he collected further titles, albeit not as successfully as in Amsterdam. When he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1979 , Neeskens was on the pitch for the full season and led his team to a 4-3 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf . During this time he received the name Johan Segon from the fans , which means as much as Johan the Second and is a reference to Johan Cruyff. After five years in Spain, Neeskens moved to the New York Cosmos in North America. With them he was able to win the NASL championship in 1980 and 1982 and four division titles. In the USA he played in one team with Franz Beckenbauer , Giorgio Chinaglia and Carlos Alberto Torres, among others . After the New Yorkers dissolved in 1984, the midfielder went back to the Netherlands, where FC Groningen secured his services. After only one year tried to take Neeskens again in the US foot and joined the Minnesota Strikers and in the following season to Fort Lauderdale Sun . Between 1986 and 1991, the former national player worked for three different clubs in Switzerland and finally ended his career.

National team

Johan Neeskens converted the penalty in the final of the 1974 World Cup

Already in 1970 Neeskens became a national player of the Netherlands . He became known through the final of the soccer world championship in 1974 in Germany . In the second minute of the game, the then 22-year-old converted a penalty to 1-0 for the Netherlands against Germany ; the game was ultimately lost for his team 1: 2. Since then, football commentators have repeatedly spoken of the Neeskens variant when shooting from the penalty spot: shoot hard in the middle of the goal while the goalkeeper dives into a corner of the goal. According to Sepp Maier, however, he always shot his penalties into the right corner as seen by the goalkeeper and forgave the World Cup final because he was nervous and "didn't hit the right spot, hit the ground a little" (you can see them on the left in the picture Dusting up the chalk of the penalty spot). At the Football World Cup in Argentina in 1978 he was runner-up for the second time, this time his team lost the final against hosts Argentina after extra time with 1: 3.

Coaching career

In his subsequent career, Neeskens worked as a coach for the Swiss clubs FC Baar , FC Zug and FC Stäfa and the German top division club FC Singen 04 . Afterwards he was assistant coach of the Dutch national team and coach of the U-18 national team and was then coach of the NEC Nijmegen . For the soccer world championship in Germany he strengthened the coaching staff of the Australian national team as assistant coach of Guus Hiddink . Following the World Cup, he returned to FC Barcelona to become Frank Rijkaard's assistant coach, as he did for the Dutch national team . After his departure, Neeskens was also dismissed from FCB . Since October 26, 2008 he coached the B national team of the Netherlands. For the 2009/10 season he will again be assistant coach at Galatasaray Istanbul at the side of Frank Rijkaard . His work as an assistant coach ended on October 20, 2010, after he and Frank Rijkaard were fired. For the 2011/12 season he took over the coaching position at the South African first division club Mamelodi Sundowns . After his team had not played very successfully at the beginning of the 2012/13 season and after twelve match days were second to last in the table, the club and Neeskens ended their cooperation on December 2, 2012.

successes

As a player

society

National team

  • Vice world champion: 1974, 1978
  • 3rd place European Championship: 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sepp Maier: I am not a goal, 1980 by Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg, p. 150
  2. ^ Johan Neeskens Istanbul'da
  3. ↑ Dutch legend Neeskens to coach Sundowns , timeslive.co.za
  4. ↑ Downs part ways with Neeskens , kickoff.com of December 2, 2012

Web links

Commons : Johan Neeskens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

personal data
SURNAME Neeskens, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Heemstede , Netherlands