Wiel Coerver

Wiel Coerver ( born December 3, 1924 in Kerkrade, † April 22, 2011 ) was a Dutch football player and coach. Because of his advanced training methods it has been referred to as " Albert Einstein of Football" and is beyond his time as one of the pioneering football coach.

Career as a player

Coerver played since 1936 for the previous Kerkrade football club VV Bleijerheide. In 1954, the Dutch Football Association, a professional football game and so the license operation. For this reason, Coerver changed from the Voetbalvereniging Bleijerheide for Rapid JC, in which the club from Bleijerheide by fusion is yet risen in the same year. Wiel Coerver thus belonged to the first generation of Dutch soccer players. With his new club Rapid JC, from which today's professional club Roda JC Kerkrade emerged, Coerver was in 1956 a Dutch football champions. In 1959, he ended his career as a player.

Career as a coach

In 1959 Coervers began coaching career. His greatest success as a coach was winning the Dutch Championship and the simultaneous triumph in the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in 1974. Some of his former proteges also played for the Netherlands in the World Cup, in which the Dutch team ultimately only lost the DFB team in the final.

As a result, trained Coerver additional clubs in the first division, including Sparta Rotterdam, Go Ahead Eagles and Roda JC Kerkrade. 2007 Coerver was still active as a coach despite his advanced age.

Coerver Method

Special recognition also outside the Netherlands gained by Coerver named after him training method that Coerver method, which is primarily focused on excellent ball control and this basic technique.

His method, which he mainly from 1977 made ​​famous by traveling beyond the borders of the Netherlands also, is still popular today especially in the training of youth players. So it is used for example in the well-known for his successful youth club Manchester United.