He won championships in Holland and Spain with the “Quinte del Buitre”, and trained Holland and Poland
A pioneer, Leo Beenhakker. Forced to leave football already at the age of 19 for an injury, he became the youngest Dutch coach with a license A (at the time there was no pro) and sat on the bench very young by staying there for 45 years. Rotterdam coach had been bad for some time and died this morning at 82 years old.
Don Leo
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Beenhakker left a great memory wherever he went, but he was at Real Madrid who consecrated himself. Chosen by President Ramon Mendoza to replace the myth Luis Molownny in 1986 after a first Spanish experience at Zaragoza (81-84) the technician in his three-year period at Casa Blanca won 3 times in a row The Liga last Madrid technician to succeed in the company. But above all, ‘Don Leo’ was the godfather of the famous ‘fifth of the Buitre’, the nidiata of young people of great talent who owes the name to Emilio Butragueño and was composed of Michel, Sanchis, Martin Vazquez and Pedraza.
light -hearted
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Beenhakker did very well in Liga but not in the champions cup. Those were the years of great anticipation for Madrid, who after the Triumph of 1966 had to wait until 1998 to conquer the ‘septima’ European Cup. The Dutch technician stopped three times in the semifinal: the first with Bayern Munich, the second with the PSV then champion in the famous ‘Noche Negra de Eindhoven’, who went down in history for the Butragueño bench and was in fact electrocuted by the 5-0 remedied in San Siro by Milan of Sacchi.
record
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Before and after the Spanish experiences Beenhakker trained in Holland and boasts a curious record: he is the only champion coach for both Ajax and Feyenoord, twenty years later, between ’79 and ’99. And if the Netherlands and Spain are his two reference countries, the technician who lived smoking one cigarette after the other was also on several occasions in Mexico, then in Switzerland and Turkey.
in the national team
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He also made two World Cup: in Italy 90 ‘he is still with Holland at San Siro in the round of 16 he lost 2-1 with West Germany then winner of the tournament in the famous game of Rijkaard’s spit in Voller, in 2006 he was in Germany for the first and only world of Trinidad and Tobago, closed with a point torn from Sweden. Beenhakker also directed Saudi Arabia and Poland, but it was with the clubs that her football developed at its best: grown up with the glories of the ‘Total Voetbal’ has always tried to replicate the model of its masters, developing it with variants of ‘Futbol Directo’ At the time decidedly innovative.
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