Simon Tahamata

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Simon Tahamata
Simon Tahamata 1978c.jpg
Personnel
Surname Simon Melkianus Tahamata
birthday May 26, 1956
place of birth Vught ,  Netherlands
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
TSV Theole
1972-1975 Ajax Amsterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1980 Ajax Amsterdam 109 (13)
1980-1984 Standard Liege 129 (40)
1984-1987 Feyenoord Rotterdam 87 (29)
1987-1990 Beerschot VAC 99 (12)
1990-1996 Germinal Ekeren 180 (19)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1986 Netherlands 22 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-2000 Standard Liège (youth coach)
2000–? Germinal Beerschot Antwerp (junior coach)
? Ajax Amsterdam (youth coach)
2009– Al-Ahli Soccer Academy
1 Only league games are given.

Simon Melkianus Tahamata (born May 26, 1956 in Vught ) is a Dutch former football player with ancestors from the Moluccas , who was three times Dutch champions with Ajax Amsterdam and two times Belgian champions with Standard Liège . From 1979 to 1986 he played in the Dutch national team .

Career

society

Tahamata's family lived in Tiel , where he played organized football for the first time at the local TSV Theole. In 1972, when he was still young, he moved to AFC Ajax in Amsterdam, around 80 kilometers away . The left winger's professional career began here with his first contract in 1975 . In the second half of the 1976/77 season Tahamata developed under coach Tomislav Ivić to a regular player. With Tschen La Ling is the only dark-skinned players made the team the wingers the successful team to Piet Schrijvers , Wim Suurbier and Ruud Krol . He was a fighter, a worker, a brilliant dribbler . The only 1.59 meter tall Siempie , as his nickname, was not impressed by small fouls by the opponent, played tirelessly until he was able to bring his cross almost from the goal line into the middle. His attitude and “disarming smile” made him a favorite of the audience.

In the second half of the 1978/79 season, Tahamata's performance in the club decreased (but he was surprisingly a national player during this time). Jan Luitzen writes that he had made himself a powerful opponent in the club through his commitment to the fight for freedom of the South Moluccas (see section “ Away from football ”): Jan Westrik was married to an Indonesian woman who “had a diamond from the Moluccas the left wing must have been a thorn in the side. ”When Leo Beenhakker and his“ co ” Bobby Haarms replaced Cor Brom in the coaching office in September 1979 , they aligned their tactical direction entirely with the two wing tongs Tahamata and Ling. Tahamata's contract was extended again until 1980. But then Ajax let him go for good, after 109 games in the first division with 13 goals and 17 international matches in the European Cup and the UEFA Cup , in which he scored three goals.

Tahamata moved to Standard Liège in Belgium . Here he had his most successful time, "was allowed to play with all the national players: Haan , Preud'homme , Gerets , Meeuws , Sigurvinsson , [...] and later Hrubesch ". By 1984 he had scored 40 goals in 129 first division games. With Standard Liège he became Belgian champions in 1982 and 1983 and reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1982 , which was just lost to FC Barcelona in its stadium. The club still lists him on its website in 2011 as one of the 30 “player legends” in club history.

In 1984 he returned to the Netherlands for three years and signed with Feyenoord Rotterdam . Here, however, he was initially suspended for six months due to his involvement in a bribery scandal before he became a regular player and "one of the few bright spots of the doldrums [Feyenoords] in the 80s". 87 games in the honor division were then to book, in which he scored 29 goals.

However, he signed his next contract again in Belgium, this time with Beerschot VAC . He scored 12 goals in 99 league games before he took up his last professional position at Germinal Ekeren in 1990 . By 1996 he was there in 180 games and scored 19 goals. In total there were 604 games and 113 goals in both leagues. In 1996, ten days after his 40th birthday, he ended his career.

National team

Simon Tahamata played 22 times for the Dutch national team . In May 1979 he learned on television that he had been selected for the Elftal for the first time - Bondscoach Jan Zwartkruis needed him as a replacement for the injured Ernie Brandts , but had no phone number to reach him in pre-cell phone times. It was about the game of FIFA on the occasion of its 75th existence: a new edition of the World Cup final against Argentina , which was played in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium. In the revenge match, the Dutch had five players in the starting line-up who had been left behind last year, alongside captain Ruud Krol , these were Wim Jansen , Johan Neeskens , Jan Poortvliet and Johnny Rep . Tahamata made his debut in the left wing position, which Rob Rensenbrink , who retired shortly before the game in Bern, had filled in Buenos Aires . On his debut he showed “all the tricks he had learned on the street with his Moluccan friends” and played his opponent Jorge Olguín and his colleague Osvaldo Ardiles dizzy. Both missed their penalty kicks in the subsequent penalty shoot-out - there were no goals in the game - as did René van de Kerkhof , who came into play for Tahamata after 62 minutes, and the two Jan Peters ' (one from AZ'67 , the other from Feyenoord ) in the Dutch team; The Argentines, in whom the 19-year-old Diego Maradona stood out from the team, decided the match again with 8: 7 . "It was probably a bit of a game between two little men, even if Maradona was a bit bigger and stronger than me," remembers Tahamata.

In the next five games he was part of the starting line-up, three times together with his Ajax wing partner La Ling. The most remarkable of these games was certainly the 3-2 victory over the GDR selection in Leipzig , with the Oranje instead of the East Germans participating at the European Championship in Italy . Zwartkruis had to improvise due to injuries; Three wingers played in attack: Tahamata, La Ling and van de Kerkhof. The GDR led 2-0 after a good half hour, after 40 minutes La Ling and Konrad Weise clashed and were sent off. But before the break, the Dutch were able to score the connection goal on a cross from Tahamata with a header from Frans Thijssen . After the break, "[the team] turned the game around and showed an excellent fighting mentality". The substitute Kees Kist and van de Kerkhof ensured the final score.

When Tahamatas performance in the final phase of his contract with Ajax diminished, Zwartkruis no longer considered him for the national team; the team went to Italy without him. Only when he performed well again in Liege did he return. The national team, however, had their great times behind them for now; Tahamata was part of a team that did not qualify for the 1982 and 1986 World Championships and the 1984 European Championships - albeit very tightly each time . On December 21, 1986, Tahamata had his last of 22 appearances in the orange dress, in which he scored two goals. Against Cyprus there was a 2-0 victory in Limassol in qualifying for the European Championship in 1988 , which ended a year and a half later with the only title for the Netherlands.

successes

After the active career

Until May 1, 2009 he was a youth coach at Ajax Amsterdam. Then he became a youth coach at the Al-Ahli Soccer Academy in Arabia. There the former international got a five-year contract.

Away from football

Tahamata's father was a soldier in the Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger (KNIL), the armed forces in the Dutch East Indies . As a South Moluccan, he hoped that the KNIL could save the Maluku Selatan Republic, which was unilaterally proclaimed in 1950 , from Indonesian domination. When Indonesia conquered the southern Moluccas, Tahamata's father, like around 4,000 other Moluccan KNIL members and their families, went into exile in the Netherlands. Some of them were settled in Vught, Tahamata's birthplace, in the former Herzogenbusch concentration camp . Simon Tamahata's father had passed the pride of being a South Moluccan on to his children - Simon had eleven siblings. When, in the second half of the 1970s, second-generation Dutch Moluccas fought for recognition and freedom for their people, including resorting to acts of terrorist violence that resulted in deaths - among other things, two trains were stopped, occupied and passengers taken hostage - Tahamata gave his His compatriots expressed sympathy for the goals, even if not for the means, whom he saw not as terrorists but as "freedom fighters".

Thanks to his musical talent - "I could play the guitar passably, more for domestic use, but that's why they let me sing the song" - he was allowed to record the song We gaan naar Rome ("We're going to Rome"), which was released in December 1979 as Single was released. The record was intended as an anthem for the 1980 European Championship in Italy . However, Tahamata was not part of the squad.

literature

  • Jan Luitzen, Simon Tahamata (1956) - De ploeternde dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 61 ff.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Jan Luitzen, Simon Tahamata (1956) - De ploeternde dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 62.
  2. ↑ Jan Luitzen, Simon Tahamata (1956) - De ploeternde dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , SS 64.
  3. ↑ a b c d 59. 'Maradona werd een topper, ik niet' , in: Robert Heukels , Huize Heukels . Amstelsport Amsterdam / Antwerp 2008, ISBN 978-90-482-0006-1 , p. 124ff.
  4. ↑ De spelers van Standard de Liège , Association homepage of Standard Liège, viewed on September 8, 2011
  5. ↑ Brief portrait of Tahamata at Feyenoord Wie is Wie - Feyenoorders door de jaaren heen , seen on January 20, 2011
  6. ↑ "Simon [...] liet niet niet alleen de drie schijnbewegungingen zien die hij op straat met zijn Molukse vriendjes had ontwikkeld, maar ook de twee die hij uit de film number 14 had opgepikt." In: Jan Luitzen, Simon Tahamata (1956 ) - De ploeternde dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , p. 65.
  7. ↑ Het EK-toernooi van 1980 , at EK-Historie , viewed on June 10, 2011.
  8. ↑ Simon Tahamata joins Ahli Soccer Academy on arabnews.com from January 7, 2009 (English)
  9. ↑ "Simon greep zijn coming-out aan om de zaak van zijn volk te bepleiten en het beeld van de Zuid-Molukse jongeren te nuanceren: there were geen terrorists, maar vrijheidsstrijders." In: Jan Luitzen, Simon Tahamata (1956) - De ploeternde dribbelaar , in: Mik Schots & Jan Luitzen, Tovenaars in Oranje . AW Bruna, Utrecht 2004, ISBN 90-229-8813-9 , SS 63.
  10. ↑ December 1979 / We gaan naar Rome, Simon Tahamata on the De Goeie Oude Tijd website
personal data
SURNAME Tahamata, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tahamata, Simon Melkianus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vught