Martin Jol

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Martin Jol
Personal information
Date of birth	January 16, 1956 (age 51)
Place of birth	Den Haag, Netherlands
Nickname	Tony Soprano, BMJ, The Godfather
Playing position	Head coach
Club information
Current club	Tottenham Hotspur
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1973–78 1978–79 1979–82 1982–84 1984–85 1985–89	ADO Den Haag Bayern Munich FC Twente West Bromwich Albion Coventry City ADO Den Haag Total	132 {9) 9 (0) 71 (9) 63 (4) 15 (0) 135 (6) 425 (28)
National team
1980–81	Netherlands	3 (0)
Teams managed
1991–95 1995–96 1996–98 1998–2004 2004–present	ADO Den Haag (amateurs) Scheveningen (amateurs) Roda JC Kerkrade RKC Waalwijk Tottenham Hotspur
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Maarten ("Martin") Cornelis Jol (born January 16, 1956) is a Dutch former professional football (soccer) player, and current head coach of Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Premier League. He played over 400 games as an active player, and earned three caps for the Netherlands national football team. Appointed in 2004, Jol led Tottenham to their first UEFA Cup place in seven years in 2006.

Contents 1 Playing record 2 Coaching record 3 Managerial Accomplishments 3.1 Roda JC 3.2 RKC Waalwijk 3.3 Tottenham Hotspur 4 Managerial stats 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Playing record

Born in The Hague (Du: Den Haag), Martin Jol started his playing career with local team ADO Den Haag. He won the 1975 Dutch Cup with the team, before transferring to Bayern Munich in 1978. He returned to the Netherlands to play for FC Twente in 1979, where he won his first cap for the Dutch national football team in October 1980.

Jol moved to England in 1982 as a replacement for Bryan Robson at West Bromwich Albion. He reached two FA Cup semi-finals with the club, before moving to Coventry City in 1984. He returned to Den Haag in 1985, and won the 1985 Dutch Footballer of the Year award in the secondary Eerste Divisie league.

[edit] Coaching record

Jol's coaching career began in 1991 when he took over amateur side ADO Den Haag mirroring the start in his playing career. In the four years he was managing the club he took them from the Third Division to the First Division. He then moved to Scheveningen for one season in which he took them to the national non-league championship. He next spent two years at Roda JC during which time he won the Dutch cup which was Roda's first trophy for 30 years. Between 1998-2004, Jol managed Dutch side RKC Waalwijk where he was the Dutch Football Writers Coach of the Year in 2001 and Dutch Players and Coaches Coach of the Year in 2002. When he took over at RKC Waalwijk he saved them from relegation in his first season and then turned them into a team contending for the European places.

In 2004 Jol was chosen by then Tottenham Hotspur Director of Football Frank Arnesen to be assistant to manager Jacques Santini. However, Santini left the job after just 17 games and Jol was made caretaker manager and then later confirmed as head coach. Arnesen has now also left the club and has been replaced by Damien Comolli.

Although his first game as Spurs manager resulted in a loss he managed to turn around the performances of the team and led them to a 9th place finish (their joint highest position in the last nine seasons) in the Premier League finishing only three points away from a European spot. In the December of that season he was awarded the FA Manager of the Month award.

In the 2005-2006 season Jol has led Spurs in an impressive run of form in the FA Premiership with the team never having been outside of the top 6 all season and finishing 5th.

He has become a vastly popular figure at Tottenham, and recently celebrated his second year anniversary of becoming manager by leading the team to a 2-1 victory over champions Chelsea at White Hart Lane. The win was Spurs' first over Chelsea in Premiership history, and their first over them at home since 1987. Goals from Michael Dawson and Aaron Lennon firmly cemented Jol's place in Tottenham folklore. However, the normally placid manager endured a far less enjoyable moment a fortnight later, when he was sent to the stands during a match against Blackburn Rovers for arguing with the referee after the dismissal of Spurs' Hossam Ghaly. Jol said afterwards in an interview on Sky TV that it was the first red card of his managerial career. It turned out after the match that the referee had not sent Jol off.

Before his appointment at Spurs, Sir Alex Ferguson considered him for the role of assistant coach before eventually appointing Carlos Queiroz.^{[citation needed]} In early 2005 he was strongly linked in the press with the then-vacant managerial job at Ajax of Amsterdam.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Managerial Accomplishments

[edit] Roda JC

» First trophy for 30 years (Dutch Cup Winners 1996/98)
» First ever qualification for European Cup Winners Cup

[edit] RKC Waalwijk

» Dutch Football Writers Coach of the Year 2001
» Dutch Players and Coaches Coach of the Year 2002

[edit] Tottenham Hotspur

2005-06 Season accomplishments
» Highest ever finish in a Premiership season and highest in 16 years.
» First European qualification via the league in 23 years.
» Best home league record for a season in 15 years and 16th best of all time (65% wins)
2006-07 Season accomplishments
» First league victory over Chelsea in 16 years.
» Won the most consecutive home games (league) in over 13 years. (7)
» Won the most consecutive home games (all competitions) in over 25 years. (12)
» First domestic cup semi-final for 5 years and first European cup quarter-final for 15 years.
» Best home league record for a season in 16 years and 14th best of all time (68% wins)
» Club and British record amount of consecutive wins in Europe (8)

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Tottenham Hotspur		November 5, 2004	Present	125	61	35	29	48.80

^{* stats correct as of last update (April 2nd, 2007).}

[edit] Trivia

• In an interview in 2004, Jol told FourFourTwo that he would ideally like to spend five seasons in management with Spurs before returning back to the Netherlands to run a separate business, not football related.^{[Quotation from source requested on talk page to verify interpretation of source]}
• Martin Jol is nicknamed Tony Soprano by the Fans due to "his Mafia style appearance".[1]. Many fans also refer to him as BMJ - Big Martin Jol, and The Godfather. He has also been compared to the cartoon character Superintendent Chalmers from The Simpson.
• A sign of how the fans at Tottenham have taken him to their hearts can be seen at www.myspace.com/ilovemartinjol [2]. A musical tribute to the tune of 'I love Rock 'n' Roll' by Joan Jet and the Blackhearts. There is no record yet of it making the stands at White Hart Lane.
• Fans have joked around in saying that Martin Jol plays too much Football Manager as he has signed Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone and Dorian Dervitte, players not really well known at the time, except for being great buys on Football Manager.^{[citation needed]}
• Martin Jol's middle name, 'Cornelis', translates to 'big gentleman' from Latin.
• Jol has two brothers named Cock Jol and Dick Jol, which has led to playful mocking from the English press.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Martin Jol management career stats at Soccerbase
• (Dutch) Dutch national team profile
• (Dutch) Cv Martin Jol
• (German) FussballDaten statstics

Preceded by Jacques Santini

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Head Coach 2004–current

Succeeded by Incumbent

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. - Current Squad
1 Robinson | 2 Chimbonda | 3 Lee Y.P. | 4 Zokora | 6 Tainio | 7 Stalteri | 8 Jenas | 9 Berbatov | 10 Keane | 11 Mido | 12 Černý | 13 Murphy | 14 Ghaly | 15 Malbranque | 17 Alnwick | 18 Defoe | 19 Taarabt | 20 Dawson | 22 Huddlestone | 24 O'Hara | 25 Lennon | 26 King | 28 Barnard | 29 Ifil | 30 Gardner | 32 Assou-Ekotto | 33 Rocha | 35 Dervite | 38 C. Lee | 39 Barcham | Manager: Jol