Famous Dutchman Leo Benhacker has passed away. Former Netherlands coach and Real Madrid coach, he has passed away at the age of 82.
Benhakker started working at Vendome in 1968 at the age of just 26 and was the youngest head coach in Dutch professional football.
He is one of the few who was successful in both Ajax and Feyenoord, winning the league title with Ajax in 1980 and 1990, and he repeated that success in 1999 with the great rival of the "spearmen".
He was also the coach of the biggest club - Real Madrid, with whom he was the champion of Spain for three years in a row, from 1987 to 1989.
He led the Dutch national team for two terms, not so successfully, because in 1986 the "orange" failed to qualify for the World Cup in Mexico, and four years later, at the World Cup in Italy, as the current European champions, they were eliminated by Germany in the round of XNUMX.
He later worked as a coach for Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Poland. With Trinidad and Tobago, he achieved historic success by qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and led Poland to the Euros two years later.
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