Willem van Hanegem

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Willem van Hanegem
Personal information
Full name	Willem van Hanegem
Date of birth	February 20, 1944 (1944-02-20) (age 64)
Place of birth	Breskens, Netherlands
Playing position	midfielder
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
	Velox SC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1962-1966 1966-1968 1968-1976 1976-1979 1979-1979 1979-1981 1981-1983	Velox SC Xerxes Feijenoord AZ'67 Chicago Sting FC Utrecht Feyenoord	?? (?) 67 (32) 247 (88) 75 (10) 27 (6) 54 (3) 51 (2)
National team2
1968-1979	Netherlands	52 (6)
Teams managed
1982-1984 1984-1986 1986-1989 1990-1992 1990-1991 1992-1995 1995-1996 1997-1999 2001-2001 2002-2004 2007-present	Feyenoord Rotterdam (staff member) Feyenoord Rotterdam (assistant) FC Utrecht (assistant) USV Holland FC Wageningen Feyenoord Rotterdam Al Hilal AZ Sparta Rotterdam Netherlands national football team (assistant) FC Utrecht
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 June 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 6 June 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Willem ("Wim") van Hanegem (born February 20, 1944) is a Dutch football player and coach. He was born in Breskens, Zeeland, opposite of Flushing (Dutch: Vlissingen). He was appointed manager of FC Utrecht in July 2007.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Playing Germany 4 Citations 5 References 6 Links

[edit] Playing career

Van Hanegem played for Velox SC, Xerxes/DHC, Feyenoord Rotterdam, AZ'67, Chicago Sting, FC Utrecht and, finally, Feyenoord once again. He is respected for his tactical insight. Both his way of sprinting (he had bandy legs), and his skill to give the ball a curve (achieved by striking the ball with the outside of his left foot) gave him the nickname De Kromme (The Crooked). He is also well known for his fantastic passing range and his ability with the ball at his feet.

His major successes were with Feyenoord:

• Dutch league 1969, 1971, 1974
• KNVB Cup: 1969, 1978
• European Cup: 1970 (beating Celtic F.C. 2-1 in Milan)
• Intercontinental Cup: 1970 (beating Estudiantes de La Plata)
• UEFA Cup: 1974 (beating Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)
• He was part of the Dutch national team in 1974, reaching the final in Munich. Noted journalist Brian Glanville considered Van Hanegem to be the best Dutch player on the pitch, and he nearly scored twice with diving headers at Sepp Maier's goal. Van Hanegem was one of the greatest "older" Dutch free kickers of all time. He helped make insightful plays to Cruijff, who then scored.

[edit] Coaching career

Van Hanegem joined Feyenoord as assistant manager in 1983 and stayed in the post until 1986. He then joined FC Utrecht as number two, before moving to FC Wageningen. He returned to Feyenoord as manager in 1992, winning the league in 1993 and the Dutch Cup in 1994 and 1995.

In 1995, he had a spell as manager with Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal, then took the post at AZ'67 in 1997. He joined Sparta Rotterdam in 2001.

[edit] Playing Germany

Van Hanegem was known for rough, passionate play against German sides (before the 1974 final, he exhorted the Dutch side to "stuff the Germans") ^[1]. "I don't like Germans. Everytime I played against German players, I had a problem because of the war." ^[2]

In the summer of 1944 the German 15th army was fleeing northward from Calais to Holland. On September 11 the Allies bombed the Wehrmacht near the ferry terminal at Breskens. Citizens had fled the town but Lo and Izaak van Hanegem, Willem's father and older brother, went back to get supplies. They hid in a shelter, which was hit. Both died. Van Hanegem later lost a brother and a sister to the war. ^[3]

In later years, however, Van Hanegem used a more reconciling tone, when commenting on the war.

[edit] Citations

1. FourFourTwo, July 2006. 2. Brilliant Orange, p. 99. David Winner. Bloomsbury, 2000.

[edit] References

1. ^ FourFourTwo, 50 Greatest World Cup Moments, July 2006
2. ^ Winner, D. Brilliant Orange. Bloomsbury, 2000.
3. ^ Winner, D. Brilliant Orange. Bloomsbury, 2000.

[edit] Links

• Statistics
• Willem van Hanegem profile and stats at Wereld van Oranje (Dutch)

v • d • e Netherlands squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Runners-up 1 Geels • 2 Haan • 3 van Hanegem • 4 van Ierssel • 5 Israël • 6 Jansen • 7 de Jong • 8 Jongbloed • 9 Keizer • 10 R. van de Kerkhof • 11 W. van de Kerkhof • 12 Krol • 13 Neeskens • 14 Cruijff • 15 Rensenbrink • 16 Rep • 17 Rijsbergen • 18 Schrijvers • 19 Strik • 20 Suurbier • 21 Treijtel • 22 Vos • Coach: Michels

v • d • e Feyenoord – Managers Julian (1921–22) • Waits (1924–25) • Geneugelijk (a.i.) (1925–26) • Hall (1926–29) • Lamb (1929–30) • Kruys (a.i.) (1930–31) • Donaghy (1931–35) • Dombi (1935–39) • Hall (1939–40) • Koelman (1940–41) • Kaufman (a.i.) (1940) • Huizenaar (1940–41) • van Dijke (1941–42) • Pijl (1942–46) • Koonings (1946–50) • Topping (1950–51) • Dombi (1951–55) • de Wolf (a.i.) (1955–56) • van der Leck (1956–58) • Piet de Wolf (a.i.) (1958–59) • Sobotka (1959–61) • Fuchs (19) • Höfling (1963–64) • Kment (1964–67) • Peeters (1967–69) • Happel (1969–73) • Zonderland (a.i.) (1973) • Coerver (1973–75) • Brzezanczyk (1975–76) • Zonderland (a.i.) (1976) • Boškov (1976–78) • Ježek (1978–82) • Westerhof (a.i.) (1982) • Kraay (1982–83) • Fafié (a.i.) (1983) • Libregts (1983–84) • Fafié (1984–86) • Israël (1986–88) • Jacobs (1988–89) • Verbeek and Bengtsson (1989–91) • Jansen (a.i.) (1991) • Dorjee (1991–92) • Jansen (a.i.) (1992) • van Hanegem (1992–95) • Meijer (a.i.) (1995) • Haan (1995–97) • Meijer and Metgod (dual a.i.) (1997) • Beenhakker (1997–2000) • van Stee (a.i.) (2000) • van Marwijk (2000–04) • Gullit (2004–05) • Koeman (2005–07) • Beenhakker (a.i.) (2007) • van Marwijk (2007–08) • Verbeek (2008–)

v • d • e AZ (football club) – Managers van Wijhe (1954–56) • Smit (1956–58) • Veg (1958–60) • de Wolff (1960–61) • Bult (1961–62) • Rentenaar (1962–63) • Veg (1963–65) • Hughes (1965–67) • Talbot (1967–68) • Blokland (1968–69) • Heinz (1969–71) • van der Hart (1971–73) • Brand (1973–76) • Kraay (1976–77) • Jan Notermans (1977) • van der Hart (1977–78) • Kessler (1978–82) • Eijkenbroek (1982–83) • de Visser (1983–85) • Berger (1985–86) • Eijkenbroek (1986–89) • van Doorneveld (1989–90) • Wullems (1990–93) • Schrijvers (1993–95) • Vonk (1995–97) • de Koning and Haar (1997) • van Hanegem (1997–99) • van der Lem (1999–2000) • van Stee (2000–02) • Adriaanse (2002–2005) • van Gaal (2005–)

v • d • e FC Utrecht – current squad 1 Vorm • 2 Cornelisse • 3 Pieters • 5 Shew-Atjon • 7 Vandenbergh • 8 Silberbauer • 9 Nelisse • 10 Caluwé • 11 Van der Gun • 12 Sânmartean • 14 Kopteff • 15 Nijholt • 16 Grandel • 17 Schut • 18 Van Dijk • 19 Rossini • 20 Loval • 21 Kruys • 22 Keller • 23 Somers • 24 Van Buuren • 25 Dickoh • 28 Krul • 30 Bolland • 31 Maayen • 32 Valentijn • 33 Faouzi • 37 De Ruiter • 38 Leeuwin • 39 Kuipers • 41 George • 42 Bachdim • 45 Van der Kooy • 46 Noordraven • 47 Wolters • Manager: Van Hanegem

Sporting positions
Preceded by Dolf Roks	Sparta Rotterdam Manager (a.i.) 2001	Succeeded by Frank Rijkaard