Willem van Hanegem

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Willem ("Wim") van Hanegem (born February 20, 1944) is a Dutch football player and coach. He was born in Breskens, Zeeland, opposite of Flushing (Dutch: Vlissingen).

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
3 Playing Germany
4 Citations
5 References
6 Links

[edit] Playing career

Van Hanegem played for Velox, Xerxes/DHC, Feyenoord Rotterdam, AZ'67, Chicago Sting, FC Utrecht and, finally, Feyenoord once again. He is respected for his tactical insight. Both his way of sprinting (he had bandy legs), and his skill to give the ball a curve (achieved by striking the ball with the outside of his left foot) gave him the nickname De Kromme (The Crooked).

His major successes were with Feyenoord:

Dutch league 1969, 1971, 1974
KNVB Cup: 1969, 1978
European Cup: 1970 (beating Celtic F.C. 2-1 in Milan)
Intercontinental Cup: 1970 (beating Estudiantes de La Plata)
UEFA Cup: 1974 (beating Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)
He was part of the Dutch national team in 1974, reaching the final in Munich. Noted journalist Brian Glanville considered Van Hanegem to be the best Dutch player on the pitch, and he nearly scored twice with diving heads at Sepp Maier's goal. Van Hanegem was one of the greatest "older" Dutch free kickers of all time. He helped make insightful plays to Cruijff, who then scored.

[edit] Coaching career

Van Hanegem joined Feyenoord as assistant manager in 1983 and stayed in the post until 1986. He then joined FC Utrecht as number two, before moving to FC Wageningen. He returned to Feyenoord as manager in 1992, winning the league in 1993 and the Dutch Cup in 1994 and 1995.

In 1995, he had a spell as manager with Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal, then took the post at AZ'67 in 1997. He joined Sparta Rotterdam in 2001.

[edit] Playing Germany

Van Hanegem was known for rough, passionate play against German sides (before the 1974 final, he exhorted the Dutch side to "stuff the Germans") ^[1]. "I don't like Germans. Everytime I played against German players, I had a problem because of the war." ^[2]

In the summer of 1944 the German 15th army was fleeing northward from Calais to Holland. On September 11 the Allies bombed the Wehrmacht near the ferry terminal at Breskens. Citizens had fled the town but Lo and Izaak van Hanegem, Willem's father and older brother, went back to get supplies. They hid in a shelter, which was hit. Both died. Van Hanegem later lost a brother and a sister to the war. ^[3]

[edit] Citations

1. FourFourTwo, July 2006. 2. Brilliant Orange, p. 99. David Winner. Bloomsbury, 2000.

[edit] References

^ FourFourTwo, 50 Greatest World Cup Moments, July 2006
^ Winner, D. Brilliant Orange. Bloomsbury, 2000.
^ Winner, D. Brilliant Orange. Bloomsbury, 2000.

[edit] Links

Statistics

	Netherlands squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Geels \| 2 Haan \| 3 van Hanegem \| 4 van Ierssel \| 5 Israël \| 6 Jansen \| 7 de Jong \| 8 Jongbloed \| 9 Keizer \| 10 R. van de Kerkhof \| 11 W. van de Kerkhof \| 12 Krol \| 13 Neeskens \| 14 Cruijff \| 15 Rensenbrink \| 16 Rep \| 17 Rijsbergen \| 18 Schrijvers \| 19 Strik \| 20 Suurbier \| 21 Treijtel \| 22 Vos \| Coach: Michels