Martin Jol

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Martin Jol
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Personal information
Date of birth January 16, 1956 (age 50)
Place of birth Den Haag, Netherlands
Nickname Tony Soprano, BMJ
Position Head coach
Club information
Current club Tottenham Hotspur
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
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

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.

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.

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[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. In early 2005 he was strongly linked in the press with the then-vacant managerial job at Ajax of Amsterdam.

[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.[Quote from source requested on talk page to verify interpretation of source]
  • Martin Jol is nicknamed Tony Soprano by the Tottenham Fans due to "his Mafia style appearance".[1]. Many fans also refer to him as BMJ - Big Martin Jol.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Tottenham Hotspur England November 5, 2004 Present 97 45 28 24 46.39

[edit] External links

Preceded by:
Jacques Santini		 Tottenham Hotspur managers
2004–current		 Succeeded by:
current coach
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. - Current Squad

1 Robinson | 2 Chimbonda | 3 Lee | 4 Zokora | 5 Davids | 6 Tainio | 7 Stalteri | 8 Jenas | 9 Berbatov | 10 Keane | 11 Mido | 12 Černý | 13 Murphy | 14 Ghaly | 15 Malbranque | 16 Ziegler | 18 Defoe | 20 Dawson | 22 Huddlestone | 24 O'Hara | 25 Lennon | 26 King | 27 Davenport | 28 Barnard | 29 Ifil | 30 Gardner | 32 Assou-Ekotto | 35 Dervite | 39 Barcham | Manager: Jol
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