Theo de Jong

Theo de Jong ( 1972)

Theodorus Jacob de Jong ( born August 11, 1947 in Leeuwarden ) is a former Dutch footballer, who works as a trainer since 1986. With the national team he was as a player Vice World Champion 1974 with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the same year he won the UEFA Cup.

• 3.1 Teams managed

Club career

De Jong initially grew up in Leeuwarden, but moved at age seven with his parents to Amsterdam. Here he went through the youth teams of Blauw - Wit and eventually played in the first team in the Eerste Divisie. In 1970 he moved to the Eredivisie NEC Nijmegen. Under coach Wiel Coerver Legend of deployable in midfield or as a left winger rounder quickly evolved into one of the best players of his team. He was " strong, fast, technically gifted and had an excellent shooting technique, " Lex Schoenmaker later called him a " miracle run ". In 31 games this season, he still scored 15 goals in his second season five goals in 26 games before he was injured in the spring of 1972 and failed to end of season.

Nevertheless, the new international joined for a fee of 500,000 florins to Feyenoord. In the team of coach Ernst Happel - Wim Jansen, Wim Rijsbergen, Wim van Hanegem, Dick Schneider and Lex Schoenmaker - he integrated quickly and ousted veteran Franz Hasil from the starting eleven. In the UEFA Cup, he scored in each of the four games of Rotterdam, in the match at U.S. Rumelange, which ended 12-0, he was able to achieve three goals. In the league, he came up with ten goals in 32 games and was one of the guarantors for that Feyenoord again qualified at the end of the season in second place behind Ajax in the UEFA Cup.

The following 1973/74 season, in which his former coach Nijmeger Coerver took over the reins at the now renamed Feyenoord club, was one of the most successful for the club - and the most successful of Theo de Jong. With 16 goals in all 34 league games he had a big part in that Feyenoord after three years brought the championship to Rotterdam. Its a 3-2 victory over FC Twente in the penultimate round, which secured the title, one of the ten most important gates of Feyenoord 's history. Also in the UEFA Cup competition, he was in all the games on the court, scoring four goals, also a very important hit with the 2-2 in the 85th minute of the first final match at White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur, the the foundation for the UEFA Cup victory lay. Three weeks later were de Jong Feyenoord and six other players in the squad from the Netherlands at the World Cup in Germany.

By 1977, de Jong was in Rotterdam, before he went to Roda JC Kerkrade. He was also one of the pillars of the team, more than a fifth place in 1979, however, was not with Roda to the extent possible. 1981 went together with Gerrie de Jong Mühren to Hong Kong, where he spent two seasons with Seiko Sports active; here he played under former coach George Knobel Bond, among others, Dick Nanninga and Arie Haan together.

1983 de Jong returned to the Netherlands and trailed off his career with a season at FC Den Bosch. With the Eredivisie climber he reached the tenth place.

Stations as a player

• Blauw - Wit Amsterdam ( Eerste Divisie, 1966-1970 )
• NEC (Eredivisie, 1970-1972 ) 57 games, 20 goals
• Feyenoord (Eredivisie, 1972-1977 ) 163 games, 60 goals
• Roda (Eredivisie, 1977-1981 ) 125 games, 41 goals
• Seiko SA Hong Kong (1981-1983)
• FC Den Bosch ( Eredivisie, 1983/84 ) 28 games, four goals

National

Bondscoach František Fadrhonc became aware of the Frisians in his second season in Nijmegen. On February 16, 1972, he tested de Jong in a friendly match, a 5-0 win in Greece, in central midfield between Johan Neeskens and Wim van Hanegem. For the next international match de Jong had to cancel due to injury, but after the change to Rotterdam he was in August in Czechoslovakia back in the starting eleven. Also in the next match of the Oranje, the World Cup qualifier against Norway, the Bondscoach relied on de Jong, in " De Kuip " thanked him at 9-0 with his first goal in Oranje. After another five inserts the new coach Rinus Michels Bond appointed him to the squad of the World Cup in Engeland. During the finals, he was a reserve player. In the group match against Bulgaria he scored the goal in the 4-1 Final; in the final against Germany, he came on in the 68th minute for Wim Rijsbergen game.

Under Michels ' successor George Knobel made ​​de Jong still the first three games with after the World Cup; its last use in Oranje was on October 9, 1974, a friendly against Switzerland. Overall, he played 15 times for the national team, scoring three goals.

Coach

His coaching career began de Jong, where he finished his playing career: at FC Den Bosch. In 1986, he took over from Rinus Israël the Eredivisie team, which he led in the league semi-finals of the KNVB Cup and tenth place in his first season. In the following two seasons, the team reached each seventh in the Eredivisie. In 1989, de Jong for the second division PEC Zwolle, but he could not lead out of the lower regions of the Eerste Divisie. The SC Cambuur in his birth city of Leeuwarden was the next station the coach de Jong. He followed Rob Baan, who had first led the club from Friesland after 28 years again in the Eredivisie, but accepted an offer from FC Twente. De Jong held with Cambuur to 14th class, although the club performers such as Nico -Jan Hoogma and Michael Mols - had to give - both followed Baan to Enschede. Due to the rise of the SC Heerenveen two Frisian associations were in the following season 1993/94 for the first time simultaneously in the first division. De Jong came in the second game as manager but quickly under pressure, Cambuur was despite reinforcements - including the young Jaap Stam - after five games without even point at the end of the table, even against Heerenveen lost the Leeuwardener. Obligations of other players such as Hennie Meijer could not prevent de Jong's dismissal in October 1994, only two points were from ten matches to book. Fritz Korbach was his successor, but even he could not save the team from relegation.

De Jong went to Willem II Tilburg, where he worked as an assistant coach by Jan Reker. After his release, he was from March 1995 to March 1996 the head coach of Tilburg, before he had even earlier than planned to give up his place again. He changed to De Graafschap, where he worked as a scout and consultant. In the summer of 1999 he was at the Finnish second division Tervarit from Oulu, which he led to the first division. The end of 1999 bought de Jong's company Theo de Jong en Scouting Consultancy BV majority stake in the club, which includes virtually so the brothers Theo and Dick de Jong. Several stations, some for months, followed in the 2000s. So he took over in October 2001, the chief coach of the second division club Go Ahead Eagles Deventer. As an assistant to Leo Beenhakker he was in 2005 /06, responsible for the World Cup qualifying the national team of Trinidad and Tobago, but was not allowed to officially travel with the team to Germany. As an assistant coach Arie Haan he was. Among the national teams of China, Cameroon and Albania and the Iranian club Persepolis Tehran, later, he signed a contract as an assistant coach for Esteghlal Tehran When Steel Azin FC, ​​also in Tehran, he was half a year head coach.

From the 2008/ 09 season he was initially in addition to his duties as assistant coach with the Albanian national team, as a scout at Willem II under contract. In April, he broke after bad sporting history Arno Pijpers, the heir only in February Mark Schenning or Alfons Groenendijk, from to create with Willem relegation. In the end you save over the relegation match and secured to remain in the Eredivisie. In the summer, de Jong was then replaced by Gert Heerkes.

Teams managed

• FC Den Bosch ( 1986-89 )
• PEC / FC Zwolle ( 1989-92 )
• SC Cambuur - Leeuwarden (1992 - October 1993)
• Willem II (1994 - March 1996)
• De Graafschap (consultant and scout 1996 -? )
• Tervarit Oulu ( 1999)
• Go Ahead Eagles ( 2001-02)
• China ( Assistant coach Arie Haan, 2003-04 )
• Trinidad and Tobago ( assistant to Leo Beenhakker, 2005-06)
• Persepolis (co - coach Arie Haan, 2006)
• Cameroon ( assistant coach Arie Haan, 2006-07)
• Esteghlal Tehran ( assistant coach Samad Marfavi, 2007)
• Steel Azin Tehran (June- December 2007)
• Albania ( assistant coach Arie Haan, 2007-09 )
• Willem II Tilburg (April to June 2010)

Achievements

With its clubs

• UEFA Cup winners 1974 ( Feyenoord)
• Dutch Champion 1974 ( Feyenoord)

As a national player

As a coach

• Semi-final KNVB Cup 1987 ( FC Den Bosch)
• 7th Eredivisie 1988, 1989 ( FC Den Bosch)
• Place one Eerste Divisie and Rise 1993 ( Cambuur Leeuwarden )
• Place 1 Ykkönen and Rise 1999 ( Tervarit Oulu)

Private

Theo de Jong's son Dave was also a professional footballer.