Ronald Koeman

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Ronald Koeman
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Koeman
Date of birth	March 21, 1963 (age 44)
Place of birth	Zaandam, Netherlands
Nickname	Tintin, Sneeuwvlokje (Snowflake)
Playing position	Manager (former Defender)
Club information
Current club	PSV Eindhoven
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980-1983 1983-1986 1986-1989 1989-1995 1995-1997	FC Groningen Ajax Amsterdam PSV Eindhoven FC Barcelona Feyenoord Rotterdam	89(33) 64(23) 98(51) 191(67) 61(19)
National team
1983-1994	Netherlands	78 (14)
Teams managed
1997-1998 2000-2001 2001-2005 2005-2006 2006-	Netherlands (assistant manager) Vitesse Arnhem Ajax Amsterdam SL Benfica PSV Eindhoven
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ronald Koeman (born March 21, 1963 in Zaandam) is a former Dutch football defender and current manager of PSV Eindhoven. He is the brother of Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman.

Contents 1 Career 2 Player honours 3 Manager honours 4 Footnotes

[edit] Career

In 1980 Koeman started his professional career at FC Groningen. After playing for Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven and FC Barcelona, he finished his career in Feyenoord Rotterdam. During his career he won 2 UEFA European Cup titles, 5 Dutch championships, 4 Spanish championships, 1 Spanish Cup and he was also in the winning Dutch national team at the 1988 European Championship.

In 1988, after the semi-final against Germany (2:1) in Hamburg, he, in front of German supporters, provocatively pretended to wipe his backside with the shirt of Olaf Thon as if it was toilet paper, an action Koeman later regretted. ^[1]

Having retired as a player after his stint with Feyenoord, Koeman became member of the coaching staff of Guus Hiddink during the World Cup 1998 along with Johan Neeskens and Frank Rijkaard. After the tournament Koeman was appointed the assistant coach of FC Barcelona. In 2000, he was handed his first managerial job as the head coach of Vitesse Arnhem where he led the team to a UEFA Cup spot on a relatively limited budget.

Koeman was appointed the manager of Ajax Amsterdam in 2001. Ajax' fortunes suffered a steady decline after Koeman got off to a successful start at the ArenA, winning a domestic double in 2001-02. Despite regaining the title in 2003-04, Ajax had fallen behind rivals PSV Eindhoven as the Netherlands' top team, and Koeman resigned after the Amsterdam side were knocked out of the UEFA Cup by AJ Auxerre.

Koeman bounced back quickly from a disappointing end to his reign at AFC Ajax in February 2005, taking up the vacant position at Portuguese champions SL Benfica following the departure of legendary Italian Giovanni Trapattoni. In Benfica, against whom he won the 1988 European Cup final as a player with PSV Eindhoven, Koeman only won the Portuguese Supercup: the team finished the Portuguese League in third place (behind rivals F.C. Porto and Sporting) and was knocked out of the Portuguese Cup in the quarter-finals (after losing to Vitória de Guimarães). This, along with an offer from PSV Eindhoven, sufficed for the manager to leave one year before the end of his contract, even though Benfica reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League before losing to FC Barcelona, who ended up winning the trophy.

Besides being a steadfast defender at the centreback position, Koeman was also renowned for his powerful right-footed freekicks and deadball expertise where he scored many vital goals for the team, and it was from a free-kick that he scored FC Barcelona's winning goal in the 1992 European Cup final. He is arguably amongst the best dead-ball and freekick experts in football history. He represented his nation in the World Cup 1990 and 1994 and picked up a total of 78 caps for Holland, scoring 14 goals.

After scoring the winning free kick goal in the 1992 European Cup final, he became the first player to score a goal in two consecutive Cup Finals of different European competitions.

He is married to Bartina Koeman, they have three children.

On March 9th 2007, Koeman joined Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti and Marcello Lippi on a list of coaches in line to possibly take charge of Chelsea for the 2007-08 season.

[edit] Player honours

• 1 x European champion with the Netherlands at Euro 88
• 2 x UEFA European Cup: 1987-1988, 1991-1992
• 1 x European Super Cup: 1992
• 4 x Dutch Eredivisie champion: 1984-1985, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989
• 3 x Dutch Cup winner: 1985-1986, 1987-1988, 1988-1989
• 4 x Spanish La Liga champion: 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994
• 1 x Spanish Cup winner: 1989-1990

[edit] Manager honours

• 4th place as assistant manager for the Netherlands at the 1998 FIFA World Cup
• 2 x Dutch Eredivisie champion: 2001-2002, 2003-2004
• 1 x Dutch Cup winner: 2001-2002
• 1 x Johan Cruijff-schaal winner: 2002-2003
• 1 x Portuguese Supercup: 2005-2006

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ "Cheeseheads vs Krauts": 30 Years of Enmity, Ajax-USA.com, June 14, 2004

Preceded by Co Adriaanse	Ajax Amsterdam managers 2001-2005	Succeeded by Danny Blind
Preceded by Guus Hiddink	PSV Eindhoven managers 2006-	Succeeded by incumbent

	Netherlands squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 van Breukelen | 2 van Aerle | 3 Rijkaard | 4 R. Koeman | 5 van Tiggelen | 6 Wouters | 7 E. Koeman | 8 Vanenburg | 9 van Basten | 10 Gullit | 11 Witschge | 12 Kieft | 13 Rutjes | 14 van 't Schip | 15 Roy | 16 Hiele | 17 Gillhaus | 18 Fräser | 19 van Loen | 20 Winter | 21 Blind | 22 Menzo | Coach: Beenhakker

	Netherlands squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 de Goeij | 2 F. de Boer | 3 Rijkaard | 4 Koeman | 5 Witschge | 6 Wouters | 7 Overmars | 8 Jonk | 9 R. de Boer | 10 Bergkamp | 11 Roy | 12 Bosman | 13 van der Sar | 14 van Gobbel | 15 Blind | 16 Numan | 17 Taument | 18 Valckx | 19 van Vossen | 20 Winter | 21 de Wolf | 22 Snelders | Coach: Advocaat

PSV Eindhoven - Current Squad
1 Gomes | 2 Kromkamp | 3 Reiziger | 4 Alex | 6 Simons | 7 Väyrynen | 8 Cocu | 9 Kluivert | 10 Koné | 11 Méndez | 13 Alcides | 14 da Costa | 15 Čulina | 16 Aissati | 17 Farfán | 18 Addo | 19 Lamey | 20 Afellay | 21 Moens | 22 Fehér | 23 Salcido | 24 Nguyen | 25 de Jong | 26 Tardelli | 28 Sun | 30 Plá | 31 Boffin | 39 Marcellis | Manager: Koeman