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In four seasons on the Merengues bench, he had won six trophies, including three successive liga between 1987 and 1989.
Former Dutch coach of Real Madrid and Ajax Amsterdam Leo Beenhakker, who was also coach of the Netherlands team, died at the age of 82, his two former clubs announced on Thursday. The Dutch coach directed the Spanish club between 1986 and 1989, then again in 1991-1992. In four seasons on the Merengues bench, he won six trophies, including three successive liga between 1987 and 1989.
“Real Madrid wishes to express its condolences and affection for its family, clubs and relatives”wrote Real in a press release. “Don Leo”, who had only a modest football career, also led several other clubs in Europe, including the two major rivals of the Dutch championship, Ajax and Feyenoord. “It is with great sadness and dismay that Ajax learned on Thursday the sad news of the death of Leo Beenhakker”said the Ajacid club in a statement on Thursday evening.
He had popularized the expression “of patatgeneratia”, that is to say the fast-food generation
“Beenhakker was undoubtedly one of the most colorful and most effective Dutch coaches”adds the club he directed twice, at the very late 1970s during his second mandate at Ajax, recalls the club, Beenhakker had popularized the expression “of Patatgeneratia” (or fast-food generation) to describe his workforce rich in talented players but that he found too dilettantes, like the twins Frank and Ronald de Boer or Richard Witschge.
“He was a truly sociable person, who was always interested in others, praised the ex-player Danny Blind, quoted in the Ajax press release. Jan Wouters, who was his captain, paid tribute to a coach who could really motivate a group, a very human coach who understood things beyond football. ” With three titles of champion of the Netherlands and three of Spanish champion, he was one of the Dutch coaches with the richest list.
In selection, success was not the same. In addition to the Netherlands (1985 and then during the 1990 World Cup), Beenhakker also directed the Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago and Poland selections. In total, recalls Ajax, he directed three different selections in two World Cups and one euro but never won a match in a major tournament.
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