Aron Winter
Aron Winter 2010
Aron Mohamed Winter ( * March 1, 1967 in Paramaribo, Suriname ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach.
- 3.1 club
- 3.2 national team
Career
Association
Before he joined at age 19 Ajax, he played for amateur club SV Lelystad. With the Amsterdammers 1990 he won the championship of the Premier Division, 1987 and 1988 the KNVB Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1988 and the UEFA Cup in 1992. With this title he adopted towards Lazio Rome, where he moved in 1992.
In Rome he was for the fans to start as unwelcome. Winter was the first black player of the club. In games he was used mostly as a defensive midfielder, as the playmaker position of " Enfant Terrible" Paul Gascoigne was occupied. In his four years at Lazio the team could not win a title.
Winter moved in 1996 to Inter Milan. Here he won the 1998 UEFA Cup and played with players like Roberto Baggio, Gianluca Pagliuca, Giuseppe Bergomi or. Despite prominent cast it remained the only title of the team during the winter time at Inter.
After three years in Milan in 1999, he moved back to Ajax Amsterdam. In 2001, he was loaned out after a dispute with coach Co Adriaanse to Sparta Rotterdam. But after a year in Rotterdam, he spent the 2002/03 season again in Amsterdam and finished in the summer of 2003 his career.
National
His debut in the national team was winter on March 25, 1987, just 20 years in the 1-1 draw against Greece. A year later he was nominated for the European Championships in Germany. The national team won this year its only international title.
He played in both the following three European Championships 1992, 1996 and 2000 for the Netherlands as well as at the World Championships in 1990, 1994 and 1998. According to the Euro 2000, in which the Oranje team was eliminated in the semifinals, finished the winter his national team career after seven Tournaments and 84 international matches in which he scored six goals.
On 29 June 2000, he broke up with his 84th and final game Ruud Krols ' record for most games in the National Dress. However, this record did not last long and winter was overtaken by Frank de Boer on 15 November 2000.
Coach
After winter had initially worked since 2006 at AFC Ajax as coach of the second team, and then as the person responsible for the U -19 of the club, he moved in January 2011 to the Canadian club Toronto FC in the North American Major League Soccer. He was released on June 7, 2012.
Achievements
Association
- Dutch champion Ajax Amsterdam: 1990, 2002
- KNVB Cup with Ajax Amsterdam: 1987, 2002
- European Cup winner with Ajax Amsterdam in 1987
- UEFA Cup with Ajax in 1992 and 1998 with Inter Milan
National
- European Championship: 1988