Leo Beenhakker

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Leo Beenhakker
Leo Beenhakker 20 02 2008 (1) .jpg
Leo Beenhakker (2008)
Personnel
birthday August 2, 1942
place of birth RotterdamNetherlands
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1968-1972 SC Veendam
1972-1975 SC Cambuur
1975-1976 Go Ahead Eagles Deventer
1979-1981 Ajax Amsterdam
1981-1984 Real Zaragoza
1985 FC Volendam
1985-1986 Netherlands
1986-1989 real Madrid
1989-1991 Ajax Amsterdam
1990 Netherlands
1991-1992 real Madrid
1992-1993 Grasshopper Club Zurich
1993-1994 Saudi Arabia
1994-1995 Club America
1995-1996 İstanbulspor
1996 Deportivo Guadalajara
1996-1997 Vitesse Arnhem
1997-2000 Feyenoord Rotterdam
2000-2003 Ajax Amsterdam (Technical Director)
2003-2004 Club America
2004-2005 De Graafschap (Technical Director)
2005-2006 Trinidad and Tobago
2006-2009 Poland
2007 Feyenoord Rotterdam (play-off only)
2009-2011 Feyenoord Rotterdam (Technical Director)
2011 Újpest Budapest (Sports Director)
2013– Trinidad and Tobago (Sports Director)

Leo Beenhakker (born August 2, 1942 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch football coach .

Career

Leo Beenhakker played as an amateur soccer player and worked as a coach from 1968. After coaching positions at smaller Dutch clubs, he headed the football boarding school of Ajax Amsterdam from 1976 and was promoted from youth coach to head coach of Ajax. He then coached Real Saragossa , the Dutch national football team , Real Madrid , Grasshopper Club Zurich and Feyenoord Rotterdam, among others . He was three times Dutch and three Spanish champions.

His first World Cup participation was in Italy in 1990 with the Netherlands . In the round of 16, he and his team were eliminated from eventual world champions Germany (1: 2).

After he was appointed coach of the national team of Trinidad and Tobago , he led them on November 16, 2005 to their first participation in a soccer world championship. In the group matches of the 2006 World Cup in Germany , his team caused a surprise with a draw against Sweden . His team also held 0-0 against England until shortly before the end, then lost 2-0.

On July 11, 2006, Beenhakker was presented as the new Polish national coach by the Polish Football Association PZPN . His starting salary was 600,000 euros per year. On August 16, 2006, Beenhakker made his debut with the Polish national team in a friendly against Denmark , which was lost 2-0. In the subsequent qualification for the European Football Championship in 2008, his team started with a home defeat against Finland . Beenhakker came under public criticism after two games. After a draw with Serbia , Beenhakker started a winning streak with Poland, which ultimately led to Poland's first qualification for a European Championship. The Polish President Lech Kaczyński then awarded him the order of “Poland's Rebirth” .

After a 3-0 defeat in Slovenia on September 9, 2009, with which the team lost their last chance to qualify for the 2010 World Cup, the Polish Football Association separated from Beenhakker.

From 2009 Beenhakker was technical director of Feyenoord Rotterdam, which completed one of the worst seasons in years in the Eredivisie 2010/11 ; under him the team lost, among other things, 0:10 against PSV Eindhoven . In January 2011, the club separated from Beenhakker after differences of opinion.

At the end of July 2011, Beenhakker signed a contract as sports director for the Hungarian club Újpest Budapest . The deal ended after the club was sold to Belgian entrepreneur Roderick Duchatelet in October 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. Beenhakker nu al away , De Telegraaf Telesport website from January 24th, 2011
  2. Ujpest builds on sports director Beenhakker , kicker.de from July 29, 2011 (accessed on July 29, 2011)