Rinus Israel

Rinus Israel, 1974

Marinus David "Rinus" Israël (born March 19, 1942 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch football player and today's coach . He was Dutch champion once with DWS and three times with Feyenoord . With Feyenoord he also won the European Champion Clubs' Cup , the World Cup , the UEFA Cup and the KNVB Cup . With the national team he was runner-up in 1974 . As a coach, he led Dinamo Bucharest to the Romanian and al-Wahda to the UAE League championship .

Club career

Israël comes from Amsterdam North , an area where, in his youth, life was determined by work in the shipyards; a residential area in which the Partij van de Arbeid has the majority, to which the well-paid, but always down-to-earth professional footballer later publicly confessed. He began his career on the green lawn at DWV in Amsterdam. After his move to DWS, the defender rose in his first season 1962/63 with the first team in the Eredivisie . Here he played together with his brother-in-law Joop Burgers , who was also to become a national player. With Daan Schrijvers he formed the team's central defense. In the following season, the newly promoted Dutch champion; the season after that, the defending champion finished second behind Feyenoord and in the European Cup he reached the quarter-finals against Vasas Győr . Israël then stayed with the Amsterdamers for another year, before moving to Rotterdam in 1966 for the record sum of 450,000 guilders .

Between 1968 and 1974, the build-up game and the sure-fire passes of the tech-savvy libero Israël were a guarantee for the successful time of the Rotterdam team, with whom he won the championship and cup double in the 1968/69 season. IJzeren Rinus , the "iron Rinus" was called the robust and tough player - photographer Fjodor C. Bois portrayed him in armor in later years. Israël and Vorstopper Theo Laseroms (nickname: de Tank , "the tank") gave under coach Ernst Happel in his defensive style of play a "reliable and feared defender duo". On a list of the KNVB , the two - behind Ruud Krol - are in second and third place of the toughest players in the Netherlands. Rob Jacobs , a center-forward at XerxesDZB in the 1960s , went on to remark:

"It was easier to flee from the GDR to West Germany than to pass them both."

- Rob Jacobs

Israël led the Feyenoord team as team captain in 1970 to win the European Cup over the unconditional attacking football of the Scottish team from Celtic Glasgow : On May 6, 1970, the two teams met in San Siro, Milan . Tommy Gemmell had put the Scots in the lead, the "excellent" Israël scored the equalizer with a header just four minutes later; It was he who saved Graafland on the line for goalkeeper Eddy Pieters in the second half of extra time ; It was he who provided the decisive template for the winning goal with a long pass from midfield in the 116th minute to Ove Kindvall ; it was he who was the first Dutchman to receive the trophy.

Israël wears glasses, but unlike his teammate Joop van Daele , he did not wear his visual aid in the game, so that in the second leg for the World Cup on September 9, 1970 against Estudiantes La Plata, it was not his glasses, but only van Daele's glasses that were broken went: The Argentine Oscar Malbernat tore them from his face and trampled them on the grounds that in South America you shouldn't play with glasses. The world and European cup winner Israël made it to the vote for European Footballer of the Year 1970 in tenth place, as the second best Dutchman behind Cruijff.

From 1972 Israël had problems with his knees, which forced him to take several breaks. With only a few appearances, he was again champion in 1974 with Feyenoord. In the UEFA Cup competition he could be used from the third round and played in both finals against Tottenham Hotspur , in which Feyenoord won this cup for the first time. He was also part of the national team at the 1974 World Cup, after which he moved to local rivals Excelsior ; In 1975 he was voted Dutch Player of the Year. Nevertheless, he went to the second division, the Eerste Divisie , to PEC Zwolle , where he played football for another seven years and with whom he rose to the Eredivisie in 1978. In 1982 he ended his active career here at the age of 40.

Stations as a player

• DWV Amsterdam (amateurs, until 1962)
• DWS Amsterdam (Eerste Divisie, 1962; Eredivisie 1963–1966)
• Feyenoord Rotterdam (Eredivisie, 1966–1974) 219 games, 21 goals
• Excelsior Rotterdam (Eredivisie, 1974/75) 32 games, two goals
• PEC Zwolle (Eerste Divisie, 1975–1978; Eredivisie, 1978–1982)

National team

At the time of the DWS championship, only two current players of the club, namely Jan Jongbloed and Daan Schrijvers , had played an international match for the Amsterdam team. For the first Elftal match in the new 1964/65 season, the new bond coach Denis Neville brought Schrijvers as well as Israël and Dick Hollander into the squad. Both played against Belgium on September 30, 1964 in Antwerp , the game was lost 0-1. While Hollander has no further appearances in the national team, Israël was now part of the permanent staff.

On his 24th and 25th assignment in the autumn of 1968 he represented the Spartan Hans Eijkenbroek as captain of the Oranje team for the first time , and in 1970/71 he wore the captain's armband again, a total of seven times. In qualifying for the 1974 World Cup , he was not used because of injuries; Bond coach “General” Rinus Michels appointed him to the World Cup squad, although since the end of 1971 he had only worn the Orange jersey three times . Almost ten years after his debut, Israel's international career ended at the World Cup in Germany, where he - as Michels preferred the variant with Ajax player Arie Haan , actually midfielder, and Israël's ten years younger club mate Wim Rijsbergen , which was not just a matter of fact Experts wondered - was only a substitute; Another possible reason was that Israel's father had died shortly before the World Cup finals. For his 47th and last appearance in Orange he came on for Johan Neeskens six minutes before the end of the second round against Brazil . According to the German-Dutchman Willi "Ente" Lippens , Lippens' career in the Dutch national team failed because of the bullying of teammates. Israël insulted him for being half a Nazi because of his German mother

Trainer

After his active career, Israël began his coaching career as an assistant to Cor Brom at the club he last played for, PEC Zwolle. After two years, he switched to FC Den Bosch as head coach in 1984 , which he was in charge of for two years; in both seasons he reached sixth place with the 's-Hertogenboscher . The coaching staff there he passed on to Theo de Jong when he moved to Feyenoord in 1986. He also stayed in Rotterdam for two seasons, but without the great success he had hoped for - the team finished third in the first season, and in 1988 they finished sixth. The "two worst coaches in the Eredivisie," called the then player René Hofman Israël and his successor Rob Jacobs in retrospect in an interview in 2003, "a scandal that the two were allowed to come to Feyenoord as coaches".

Israël then moved to PAOK Thessaloniki , his first stop abroad. After two more years at FC Den Bosch, with whom he was relegated to the Eerste Divisie , he went to Romania for a year, where he led Dinamo Bucharest to the 14th national championship. From 1992 to 1996 he then worked at the KNVB as a youth trainer and assistant to the bond coaches Dick Advocaat and Guus Hiddink . Here he formed future national players like Edgar Davids , Marc Overmars , Marco van Hoogdalem and Peter Hoekstra . He then took over the national team of Ghana for two years . In 1998 he went to the Al-Jazira Club and a year later to Al Shabab in the United Arab Emirates ; there he took over the trainer position at al-Wahda in 2000 , with which he became a master. After two and a half years at home with ADO Den Haag , where he took over the post from his former national team-mate Piet de Zoete and held it together with his former Feyenoord colleague Lex Schoenmaker, he moved back to al-Wahda in December 2003.

He has been working as a scout for Feyenoord since 2006.

Stations as a trainer

• PEC Zwolle (Assistant 1982–1994)
• FC Den Bosch (1984–1986)
• Feyenoord Rotterdam (1986–1988)
• PAOK Saloniki (1988/89)
• FC Den Bosch (1989–1991)
• Dinamo Bucharest (1991/92)
• Netherlands (youth and assistant coach 1992–1996)
• Ghana (1996-1998)
• Al-Jazira Club (1998/99)
• Al Shabab (1999/00)
• al-Wahda (2000/01)
• ADO The Hague (2001-2004)
• Feyenoord Rotterdam (Scout, since 2006)

successes

With his clubs

• World Cup 1970 (Feyenoord)
• European Champion Clubs' Cup 1970 (Feyenoord)
• 1974 UEFA Cup Winner (Feyenoord)
• Dutch champion 1964 (DWS), 1969, 1971, 1974 (Feyenoord)
• Dutch Cup Winner 1969 (Feyenoord)

As a national player

• 47 senior internationals (three goals)
• Vice World Champion 1974

As a trainer

• Romanian Champion 1992 (Dinamo)
• Master of the United Arab Emirates 2001 (al-Wahda)

Personal awards

• 10th place, Ballon d'Or 1970
• Dutch player of the year 1975

Private

The former construction worker is married to Greetje, his girlfriend since elementary school. Rinus Israel defined happiness as follows:

“For me, happiness is: my grandchildren. Vegetables, potatoes, sauce, a cutlet. "

- Rinus Israël

literature

• Harry Walstra: IJzeren Rinus. De gouden jaren van voetbalicoon Rinus Israel. Meppel: Just Publishers, 2017, ISBN 978-90-8975-028-0

Web links

• Profile of the national player at the KNVB
• Season statistics at Ronald's Voetbalstatistieken

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Wout Visser, Rinus Israel is een voetballende held , Sportgeschiedenis.nl of August 12, 2006, viewed on June 16, 2009
2. ↑ The sum corresponds to a purchasing power of around € 950,000 in 2008; calculated with the purchasing power converter Waarde van de gulden / euro of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
3. ↑ Image of the photo on Bois' website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Feyenoord voor altijd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Voetbal Kanaal from April 1, 2008  
5. ↑ Top 11: Hardste spelers ( Memento from February 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), OnsOranje Nieuws website of the KNVB from February 4, 2009, viewed on June 16, 2009
6. ↑ 'The kon gemakkelijker van de DDR naar West-Duitsland vluchten dan dat each the twee voorbij kwam.'; quoted from Fons de Poel, De genadeloze Willem van Hanegem ( Memento from June 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), de Pers from January 21, 2008, online version viewed on June 17, 2009
7. ↑ according to an Austrian commentator, according to Wout Visser, Rinus Israel is een voetballende held , Sportgeschiedenis.nl of August 12, 2006, viewed on June 16, 2009
8. ↑ A photo with glasses is at Anorak News ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to see. 
9. ^ 1970 Intercontinental Cup ( memento of July 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the FIFA website
10. ↑ European Footballer of the Year 1970 at Football History
11. ↑ Israël's European Cup statistics at voetbalstats.nl
12. ↑ Profile at FR-Fanatic  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Johan Derksen et al., Het Nederlands Elftal 1905–1989. De historie van Oranje , Weekbladpers BV / Voetbal International, Amsterdam 1989, pp. 294f., ISBN 90-236-7211-9
14. ↑ David Winner, Briljant Oranje. Het genie van het Nederlandse voetbal , LJ Veen, Amsterdam / Antwerp 2006, ISBN 90-204-0536-5 , p. 98
15. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/panorama/ausser-bei-laenderspielen-id6760759.html
16. ↑ "Maar ik had gewoon de pech dat ik daar te maken kreeg met de twee worst trainers uit de eredivisie: Rinus Israel and Rob Jacobs, zijn opvolger. Really shameful that the twee trainers at Feyenoord might have come." Extra's René Hofman ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rodaction , website rodaspelers.nl from October 2003, viewed on October 15, 2009 
17. ^ Rinus Israel moet nog even wennen, maar vindt het coaching van tieners "leuk werk" , Trouw from August 19, 1992, viewed on June 16, 2009
18. ↑ List of trainers ( memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the ADO Den Haag website
19. ↑ De 100 beste van 1965 tot heden, deel III  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Voetbalzone.nl of March 27, 2003, viewed on June 17, 2009