Marco van Basten

Marco van Basten
Marco van Basten
Personnel
Surname	Marcel van Basten
birthday	October 31, 1964
place of birth	Utrecht ,  Netherlands
size	188 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1970-1971	EDO
1971-1980	UVV Utrecht
1980-1981	UPS Elinkwijk
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1987	Ajax Amsterdam	133 (128)
1987-1995	AC Milan	147 0(90)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1981	Netherlands U-21	15 0(13)
1983-1992	Netherlands	58 0(24)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2004	Ajax Amsterdam B.
2004-2008	Netherlands
2008-2009	Ajax Amsterdam
2012-2014	SC Heerenveen
2014	AZ Alkmaar
2014-2015	AZ Alkmaar (Assistant Trainer)
2015-2016	Netherlands (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born October 31, 1964 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch football coach , technical advisor to FIFA and former football player . He is considered one of the best strikers of his generation and was European champion with the Netherlands in 1988. He had his first major coaching position from 2004 to 2008 as national coach of the Netherlands .

Life

Marcel van Basten was born on October 31, 1964 as the youngest of three children of the former soccer player Joop van Basten and his wife Leny in the Surinamestraat . Since his maternal grandmother had problems with the name “Marcel”, she called him “Marco” without further ado.

He attended St. Dominicus Elementary School and later the general secondary Niels Stensen College in Utrecht . In his youth he played table tennis in addition to soccer .

Player career

In the club

Ajax Amsterdam

He first played for UVV Utrecht (1970-80) and Elinkwijk Utrecht (1981/82) until he moved to Ajax Amsterdam in 1982 . Van Basten made his professional debut in April 1982 when he came on for Johan Cruyff in the 5-0 win over NEC Nijmegen . In this game he also scored his first goal for his new club.

In the 1982/83 season he was still in the shadow of Wim Kieft . But this was sold the following year to the Italian Serie A representative Pisa Calcio . From 1984 to 1987 van Basten was the top scorer of the Dutch league and developed into one of the top strikers of the 1980s. In 1986 he even became Europe's top scorer. This season he scored 37 goals in 26 games. In 1987 van Basten was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup . In the game against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig , he scored the decisive goal.

AC Milan

van Basten in the AC Milan jersey (1990s)

After this title he moved to AC Milan , where he played with fellow countrymen Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard . With van Basten, AC Milan won the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1989 and 1990 . Towards the end of his career, he had to sit out repeatedly due to a serious ankle injury. Van Basten played his last competitive game for Milan in the Champions League final against Olympique Marseille on May 26, 1993.

Due to his ankle injury and knee problems, he then had to sit out again, but could no longer play as a professional footballer despite intensive efforts and finally resigned in 1995 as a sports invalid .

In the national team

Between September 1983 and October 1992 van Basten completed 58 international matches (24 goals) for the Dutch national soccer team . The highlight was winning the European Football Championship in Germany in 1988 , where he was also the top scorer with five goals. His goal to make it 2-0 in the final against the USSR (he overtook Rinat Dassajew from an acute angle ) was voted goal of the month for June by the viewers of the sports show . After the tournament he was voted the best player of the tournament.

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Nat. Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
Ajax Amsterdam	Eredivisie	1981/82	1	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	2	1
		1982/83	20th	9	5	4th	-	-	-	-	25th	13
		1983/84	26th	28	4th	1	2	0	-	-	32	29
		1984/85	32	22nd	4th	2	4th	5	-	-	41	29
		1985/86	26th	37	1	0	2	0	-	-	29	37
		1986/87	27	31	7th	6th	9	6th	-	-	43	43
Ajax overall			133	128	22nd	13	17th	11	-	-	172	152
AC Milan	Series A	1987/88	11	3	5	5	3	0	-	-	19th	8th
		1988/89	33	19th	4th	3	9	9	1	1	47	32
		1989/90	26th	19th	4th	1	9	4th	1	0	40	24
		1990/91	31	11	1	0	2	0	1	0	35	11
		1991/92	31	25th	7th	4th	-	-	-	-	38	29
		1992/93	15th	13	1	0	5	6th	1	1	22nd	20th
		1993/94	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
		1994/95	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
AC Milan overall			147	90	22nd	13	28	19th	4th	2	201	124
Career total			280	218	44	26th	45	30th	4th	2	373	276

National team
year	Games	Gates
1983	3	2
1984	3	-
1985	4th	1
1986	4th	2
1987	4th	1
1988	9	5
1989	5	2
1990	11	8th
1991	5	2
1992	10	1
total	58	24

Coaching career

Marco van Basten began his coaching career in the 2003/04 season with the youth team of Ajax Amsterdam.

Dutch national team

Marco van Basten as national coach (2008)

From July 29, 2004, van Basten was coach of the Dutch national team ( Bondscoach ); John van 't Schip , who already worked with van Basten at Ajax Amsterdam, became assistant coach .

With van Basten came a change in the national team. Players like Clarence Seedorf , Patrick Kluivert , Edgar Davids , Roy Makaay and Mark van Bommel were no longer nominated. For a long time, the three big Dutch teams ( Ajax Amsterdam , Feyenoord Rotterdam , PSV Eindhoven ) provided the basic structure of the Elftal. But van Basten gave young players like Denny Landzaat , Barry Opdam , Barry van Galen , Ron Vlaar , Jan Kromkamp and Joris Mathijsen from the newcomer AZ Alkmaar the opportunity to prove themselves. He also gave other players such as Khalid Boulahrouz , Hedwiges Maduro , Ryan Babel and Romeo Castelen a chance. Under his direction, the team remained unbeaten in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup . However, van Bsten's first major tournament as a bond coach, the 2006 World Cup in Germany, ended early for his team: In the round of 16, the Netherlands failed against the Portugal national team with 0: 1 . Due to the banishment of Ruud van Nistelroy to the bank, van Basten was heavily criticized. Van Nistelrooy announced shortly afterwards that he would never play for the national team again while Van Basten was coach. In May 2007 there was a reconciliation and van Nistelrooy became an integral part of the Dutch selection again.

In December 2007, van Basten announced that he would give up his post after the 2008 European Football Championship . In the group stage of Euro 2008, the team qualified for the quarterfinals and were eliminated after a 3-1 defeat by Russia . It was the last game for van Basten as national coach.

Ajax Amsterdam

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season, van Basten was coach of Ajax Amsterdam as the successor to interim coach Adrie Koster . On February 22, 2008, he signed a four-year contract. On May 6, 2009, he resigned due to lack of success. He was replaced by Martin Jol .

SC Heerenveen

For the 2012/13 season, van Basten took over from Ron Jans as coach of the Dutch first division club SC Heerenveen . He signed a two-year contract.

AZ Alkmaar

After the contract expired, he moved to AZ Alkmaar as the successor to Dick Advocaat . He signed a contract until 2016. Due to health problems, however, he was no longer able to carry out his office a few months later and in September switched to the position of assistant coach under his successor John van den Brom .

Renewed activity for the Netherlands

Before his contract expired, he returned to the Dutch national team in the summer of 2015 as assistant to the new national coach Danny Blind . He signed a contract until after the 2018 World Cup in Russia , from which he resigned in September 2016.

Technical advisor to FIFA

In September 2016 van Basten was appointed Chief Representative of FIFA for Technical Development and caused a sensation in January 2017 when, in addition to adopting various rules from hockey and ice hockey, he also made offside available .

successes

National team

• European Champion : 1988

Ajax Amsterdam

• Dutch champion : 1982 , 1983 , 1985
• European Cup Winners' Cup : 1987
• KNVB Cup winners : 1983 , 1986 , 1987

AC Milan

• Italian champion : 1988 , 1992 , 1993
• Italian Supercup winner : 1988 , 1992 , 1993
• European Champion Clubs' Cup : 1989 , 1990
• UEFA Super Cup : 1989 , 1990
• World Cup : 1989 , 1990

Personal awards

• Eredivisie top scorer : 1984 , 1985 , 1986 , 1987
• Netherlands Footballer of the Year : 1985
• UEFA golden shoe for best scorer in Europe: 1986
• Top scorer and best player in the European Championship : 1988
• Europe's footballer of the year : 1988, 1989, 1992
• Onze d'or : 1988, 1989
• Serie A top scorer (Capocannoniere): 1990, 1992
• World Player of the Year: 1988 ( unofficial ) , 1989 ( unofficial ) , 1992 FIFA World Player of the Year
• World Soccer Player of the Year : 1988, 1992
• Best young player in Europe : 1987
• European Championship All-Star Team : 1988, 1992

Web links

Commons : Marco van Basten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marco van Basten in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player profile in the AC Milan Hall of Fame

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heerenveen snatches van Basten . Kicker.de (February 13, 2012). Retrieved September 7, 2015.
2. ↑ Marco van Basten succeeds Advocaat . t-online.de (April 18, 2014). Retrieved September 7, 2015.
3. ↑ Heart problems: Van Basten gives up head coach job . Spiegel.de . Retrieved September 7, 2015.
4. ↑ Team Oranje: Van Basten becomes Blind's assistant . Spiegel.de (July 9, 2015). Retrieved September 7, 2015.
5. ↑ Chaos at Oranje: Van Basten goes too . Kicker.de (August 30, 2016). Retrieved October 11, 2016 .; Message @ de.fifa.com, September 23, 2016, accessed January 19, 2017
6. ↑ Learning from hockey means learning to copy @ faz.net, January 18, 2017

predecessor	Office	successor
Ruud Gullit	Netherlands Footballer of the Year 1985	Ruud Gullit