Barry Hulshoff

Adriaan Bernardus Hulshoff ( born September 30, 1946 in Deventer ) is a former Dutch football player and coach. As a player of Vorstopper was part of the golden era of Ajax Amsterdam from the late 1960s to the beginning 1970s. An injury prevented his participation in the World Cup 1974. As a coach, he worked mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Life

Barry Hulshoff began in the youth of AVV Zeeburgia to play football, but left the club after quarrels and joined as a 16- year-old Ajax Amsterdam. Its beginnings there were not drawn by success and he was soon passed from the A1 to A4 youth. In that time he has been challenged as an "anti - football player " and compared whether its typical posture with a question mark. But in the A4 he was redeployed from the left -back to center-back and the fate turned. Soon he was even captain of the national youth team under coach Georg Kessler and played among other things beside Johan Cruyff, Willy van der Kuijlen and Wim Jansen.

Glory days at Ajax

1964 Hulshoff was eventually incorporated into the professional squad of Ajax, but initially only played in the B team. Between 1965 and 1966 he had his first appearances in the first team, the case in the latter year also won the trophy in the final against NAC Breda the league title in 1966 and 1967, as well. From the 1967/68 season he had finally accepted as a regular player and formed together with the come from the European Cup finalists in 1966 Partizan Belgrade in the previous Yugoslav national team Velibor Vasović, the Libero played in central defense. Ajax won the 1968 third championship in a row.

The introverted Hulshoff was not without controversy. Firstly, it was considered too technical for the team unshod, on the other Hulshoff was unhappy with his coach Rinus Michels relation to the stern. "I was with Michel's never a conversation that lasted more than three minutes," he once complained. Moreover, Hulshoff said that Michels had never explained the real reasons for his decisions when he was not allowed to play once for example.

At the end of the 1968/69 season, although the team could not have a new title, but joined by reaching the European Cup final in 1969 for the first time fully into the European spotlight. There, the AC Milan waiting with its stars Karl -Heinz Quick Inger, Giovanni Trapattoni and the midfield conductor Gianni Rivera. The young Dutchman could the experience of the European Cup winner from 1963 to oppose and lost at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid clearly with 1:4 before 32,000 spectators just not much, and many thought that Ajax would have it looked far better than the result says.

In 1970 Ajax winning the doubles of league and cup again two titles, and qualified again for the European Champions Cup. 1971 had Ajax nationally in the championship the then chief rivals Feyenoord Rotterdam to defer and could only win the cup, but the club won in stylistically influential fashion - the Total Football known as - for the first time the European Champions Cup with a 2-0 final victory at Wembley Stadium against Panathinaikos Athens. In October of the same year Barry Hulshoff also celebrated his first international cap. The 3-2 victory for the Netherlands on the East Zone of the now well-known for its storm runs towards the centrally Hulshoff scoring the 1-1 equalizer. In this role he also played in the starting line- managed by the National František Fadrhonc selection. In the two other countries play the year he also contributed in each case a hit. At the first international game of 1972 - a 5-0 win in Greece - there were even two.

At club level he had from the 1971/72 season a new partner in central defense. The come from TSV 1860 München Horst Blankenburg replaced the "Thinker" Velibor Vasović from, who finished his career for health reasons, and the Romanian Ştefan Kovács Rinus Michels replaced from, who went to Barcelona. In the eyes of many Ajax won in the wake of joy and creativity. Was the most successful year in the club's history in 1972. The cup could be defended, regained the championship - and in the European Cup final, this time in Rotterdam, defeated the Ajacieden Inter Milan with the defense stretching Giacinto Facchetti, midfield conductor Sandro Mazzola and star striker Roberto Boninsegna by two Cruijff gates 2-0. The fourth title of the year Ajax won in September in the two hard-fought games against the Copa Libertadores winner CA Independiente from the bonarenser industrial suburb Avellaneda the World Cup. In Argentina Ajax reached a draw and made the return leg 3-0 all clear.

1973 defended Ajax the championship and won for the third time in a row the European Champion Clubs' Cup, this time thanks to a Johnny Rep hit as early as the fourth minute through a somewhat laboriously out played 1-0 victory over Juventus in Belgrade, in which distinguished the Amsterdam defense. This was for the time being the last major success of Ajax, since the end of the season left Johan Cruijff the club around Rinus Michels at FC Barcelona to join, making a sustained decline began. The national team, however, qualified for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. This was due to the one-time equipped with a distinctive beard Barry Hulshoff not last. He scored in September 1973 at the penultimate World Cup qualifier in Oslo three minutes from time the 2-1 victory against the Norwegians. This was his sixth and final international goal. In the remaining game Oranje submitted in November a happy 0-0 draw with Belgium in order to qualify thanks to a better goal difference.

This was Hulshoffs last international match. Participation in the World Cup it was denied by an injury, which was perceived by many as a significant weakening of the Dutch defensive line. In return, Barry Hulshoff him in 1973 was allowed with a small cameo in the film Op de Hollandse toer director Wim Sonneveld comfort, also was given.

With Ajax, Barry Hulshoff won only the championship of 1977. During the following two seasons, he had his playing career at MVV Maastricht finish.

Coaches and managers

In 1987, Barry Hulshoff joined the coaching staff of Ajax. After his term head coach of Ajax Johan Cruijff resigned from office in January 1988, took over a triumvirate consisting of Hulshoff, Antoine Kohn and Bobby Haarms the management of the team. It was Barry Hulshoff granted in May at the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in Strasbourg to sit against KV Mechelen as the principal in charge on the bench. After the Ajaciede Danny Blind was already referenced in the 15th minute of the field, Ajax lost 0-1. In the national championship Ajax was only severed second behind PSV Eindhoven and the Triumvirate was replaced by the German Kurt Linder, who was already 1981/82 head coach at the club. Hulshoff but remained on the staff until 1990.

From the 1990s onwards Hulshoff Belgium made ​​the center of his activities and he trained there KVC Westerlo Lierse SK, KSK Beveren, Beerschot VAC, K Sint- Truidense VV, SK Aalst and between 2001 and 2002 at KV Mechelen. These exposures were consistently unsuccessful and was at Malines under his aegis even the relegation to the second division.

In 2002 he returned to the Netherlands and was Technical Director at Willem II, where he also already adopted in March of next year. There followed in 2005 a commitment to pass the same function in the United States at Ajax Orlando, where he succeeded his former teammate Wim Suurbier was it. But even here, the action was not in the longer term, because Ajax Orlando introduced in mid-2006 the operation of gambling and was dissolved.

In 2007, when the former Belgian international and current coach Jan Ceulemans after two years of absence to KVC Westerlo returned came in the wake Hulshoff to the club back, in which he already had in the early 1990s. The coaching staff of Ceulemans, he was mainly responsible for the management of the youth team. After his appointment as head coach in May 2012 brought the former Belgian international Dauwen Frank Hulshoff, whose beard is now gray, as assistants to his staff.

Title

Players:

  • World Cup: 1972
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1971 1972 1973
  • Football champions of the Netherlands: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977
  • Football Cup of the Netherlands: 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972
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