Leo Beenhakker
Leo Beenhakker ( born August 2, 1942 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football coach.
Career
As a football player Beenhakker was never a professional footballer. By coach positions at smaller Dutch clubs he managed from 1976, the football boarding school of Ajax Amsterdam and was promoted from youth coach to the head coach of Ajax. He also served as coach of Feyenoord Rotterdam, the Dutch national football team, the Grasshopper Club Zurich, Real Zaragoza and Real Madrid. It was at this time three times Dutch and Spanish masters.
His first world championship is he experienced in Italy in 1990 with the Netherlands. In the second round, he retired with his team against the eventual champions Germany (1:2).
He led the national team of Trinidad and Tobago on 16 November 2005 for the first time at a World Cup. In the group matches of the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany, this made a draw against Sweden for a surprise. Even against England held his team 0-0 up just before the end, but then lost with 0:2.
On 11 July 2006, the Polish Football Association PZPN introduced him as the new Polish national team coach. His starting salary was 600,000 euros per year. On August 16, 2006, Beenhakker his debut with the Polish national team in a friendly match against Denmark, which was lost with 0:2. Also in the qualification for the 2008 European Football Championship started his team with a home defeat against Finland. So Beenhakker was already after two games in public criticism. After a draw against Serbia but Beenhakker Poland started with a series of victories that eventually led to the initial qualification of Poland, a European Championship. The Polish President Lech Kaczyński awarded him then with the Order of Poland " rebirth " from. After the 0-3 defeat in Slovenia, September 9, 2009, with the team playful his last chance to qualify for the World Cup 2010, the Polish Football Association Beenhakker separated.
Since 2009, Beenhakker was technical director of Feyenoord Rotterdam, one of the worst seasons graduated in Eredivisie 2010/11 for years; among the team lost with 00:10 against PSV Eindhoven. In January 2011, the club split after disagreements of Beenhakker.
End of July 2011, signed a contract Beenhakker as sports director at the Hungarian club Újpest Budapest. The contract was terminated after the sale of the club to the Belgian entrepreneur Roderick Duchatelet in October 2011.