04/10/2025 – 9:04 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Leo Beenhakker’s time as a Dutch national coach was not particularly successful. The coach celebrated its greatest success in club football. Now he has died.
Dutch football mourns the loss of Leo Beenhakker. The former bond coach died at the age of 82. Benhakker’s family confirmed that after several media had already reported. The Elftal looked after Beenhakker between 1985 and 1986 and in 1990, when he lost the scandal game with the spitting incident of Frank Rijkaard against Rudi Völler in the round of 16 against Germany (1-2) at the World Cup in Italy.
Beenhakker celebrated its greatest success in club football. As a trainer of Real Madrid, he won three championships in succession from 1987 to 1989. At home, “Don Leo” won the national league twice with Ajax Amsterdam and once with Feyenoord Rotterdam. In total, Beenhakker was a coach for 45 years, and at the age of 26 he was also the youngest head coach in Dutch professional football.
However, his time as a bond coach was not successful. Before the round of 16 in 1990 against Germany, Beenhakker missed the qualification for the World Cup in Mexico during his first term. Later, the native of Rotterdam was a national coach in Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago as well as Poland, where he ended his career in 2009.