Arie Haan

Arie Haan ( born November 16, 1948 in Finsterwolde, Groningen Province; actually Arend Haan ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach.

  • 2.1 club
  • 2.2 national team
  • 2.3 Records

Playing career

Association

Arie Haan came in 1969 first team of Ajax Amsterdam. In addition to football greats such as Johan Cruijff and Johan Neeskens, the club should develop in the coming years the best club in Europe and one of the best in the world. After the expiration of his first professional year Haan won with Ajax, the double ( league and cup ). His biggest success was the club three times winning the Euro Champions' Cup with the Amsterdam giants. 1971 Panathinaikos Athens was defeated in 1972 and 1973 Inter Milan Juventus. Haan missed none of these playoffs. Only in the final in 1971, he was first off the bench at halftime. By winning the UEFA Super Cup and the World Cup even triple international in 1972 made ​​perfect. After six years in Amsterdam or two years without a title, it attracted Haan to Belgium for RSC Anderlecht. Between 1975 and 1981 he established himself as an important pillars in the composite team and won the 1976 and 1978 European Cup Winners' Cup with the club. In his last year at Anderlecht, he won the Belgian championship. This could Haan defend at his new employer Standard Liege in 1982 and 1983. For the season 1983/84 he moved to defensive players back to the Netherlands, where he joined PSV Eindhoven. After the season Haan ended his career.

Haan is Gianluca Vialli along with the player with the third most missions in European Cup finals ( a total of seven times, in addition to the five wins, two defeats in 1977 with RSC Anderlecht and Standard Liege in 1982 ). Francisco Gento leads this list of nine European Cup finals in front of Paolo Maldini ( eight European Cup finals ).

Haan was primarily known for his dreaded hard (wide ) shots.

National

Haan in the 1970s was a regular player in the midfield of the Dutch national team. With it, he was twice in 1974 and 1978 Vice World Champion, 1974, he played the entire World Cup tournament ( under its former Ajax coach Rinus Michels Club ) on the Libero position. Overall, he played 35 international matches, scoring six goals.

Unforgettable are his goals from long distance in the second round of the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina was against Germany and Italy, with which he overcame the world-class goalkeeper Sepp Maier and Dino Zoff and thus contribute significantly to the collection of his team in the World Cup final.

See also:

  • The Netherlands at the World Cup 1974 in Germany
  • The Netherlands at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina
  • The Netherlands at the European Championships in Italy in 1980

Successes as a player

Association

  • World Cup ( 1): 1972 with Ajax Amsterdam
  • European Champions Cup ( 3): 1971, 1972, 1973 with Ajax Amsterdam
  • European Cup Winners' Cup ( 2): 1976, 1978, RSC Anderlecht
  • UEFA Super Cup (4): 1972, 1973 with Ajax Amsterdam; 1976, 1978 with RSC Anderlecht
  • Dutch champion ( 3): 1970, 1972, 1973 with Ajax Amsterdam
  • KNVB Cup winners ( 3): 1970, 1971, 1972 with Ajax Amsterdam
  • Belgian champion (3): 1981, RSC Anderlecht, 1982, 1983 with Standard Liege
  • Belgian Cup winners ( 1): 1976 with RSC Anderlecht

National

  • Vice World Champion ( 2): 1974, 1978

Records

  • UEFA Super Cup: Record player with 8 inserts
  • UEFA Super Cup: Top scorer with 5 goals

Coaching career

After ending his playing career Haan became a coach. In July 1984, he was introduced as head of Royal Antwerp. This supervised the Neutrainer to December 1985 before joining league rivals RSC Anderlecht. There Haan celebrated his first and only success on Vereinsebende in summer. After the season, his team secured the Belgian championship. After another six months, he was released in winter 1986/87. Then it pulled the former midfielder in the Bundesliga, where he worked for VfB Stuttgart and 1.FC Nuremberg. With Stuttgart in 1989, he moved into the final of the UEFA Cup, the VfB lost to gambling with Diego Maradona Napoli. During the European Football Championship in 1988, he was on the coaching staff of the victorious Dutch national football team, again as assistant to his former club coach Rinus Michels. After three years in Stuttgart and one season in Nuremberg, it attracted Haan back to Belgium. New employer was Standard Liege, where he was active as a player. The two-year employment contract, however, was Titellos and this was completed in December 1993. From there it moved Haan away again from the Jupiler League and the 1994/95 season he was mainly responsible for PAOK Thessaloniki in Greece. With the team of coach took 65 points, as many as 22 years no more. Nevertheless, it was enough only to third place. After a disappointing start of the following season, Haan was released in October. Feyenoord secured on the services of the Dutchman and lured him for the first time in his home country. After two years without success Haan returned to RSC Anderlecht and then went back to Thessaloniki. In November 2000, he was briefly Cypriot club Omonia Nicosia coach at. Finally Haan took over in December the post of conductor at Sporting FK Austria Wien. Vienna should also be Haan's next coach station, where he Heinz Hochhauser replaced in March 2001 as head coach. After only six months, but parted again the paths between the club and coach. There was a long pause coach, which lasted until December 2002. Between August and November 2002 was a brief stint as a sports director of the Stuttgart Kickers.

From 2002 to 2004 Haan again worked as a coach and supervised from now on the Chinese national team. After the brief from in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2006 Haan resigned in December 2004 from his post.

After an engagement with the Iranian giants Persepolis he was coach of the 2006 national of Cameroon in August. On 1 February 2007 Arie Haan informed by mail that he give up his work as a trainer in Cameroon and now am no longer available. From January 2008 to April 2009, he coached the national team of Albania.

Success as a coach

  • Belgian champion RSC Anderlecht: 1986
  • Finalist in the UEFA Cup with VfB Stuttgart: 1989
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