Guus Hiddink and Mario Been kept contact with Leo Beenhakker until the last: ‘Heavy, but also beautiful conversations’

After a beautiful career, in which Leo Beenhakker celebrated great successes and was a man of the world, ‘Don Leo’ had a difficult final phase of his life. Physical problems and bitterness about his last Feyenoord episode played him, experienced Guus Hiddink and Mario Been, who kept in contact with the legendary trainer, who died on Thursday at the age of 82. With them, respect and admiration dominates the way in which Beenhakker as a boy from Charlois climbed from the basement of professional football to the absolute world top.

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