Description
Marinus "Rinus" Jacobus Hendricus Michels OON was a Dutch association football player and coach. He played his entire career for the club Ajax Amsterdam, which he later coached, and was a member of the Netherlands national team both as a player and as manager.
Michels became most notable for his coaching achievements, having won the European Cup with Ajax and the Spanish league with Barcelona, and having had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, which he led to reach the final match of the 1974 World Cup and to win the 1988 European Championship. He is credited with the invention of a major football tactic known as "Total Football" in the 1970s, and was named "coach of the century" by FIFA in 1999.
Born
February 9th, 1928 in Amsterdam as Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels / Died: Mar 3rd, 2005 - at age 77
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