Danny Blind

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Danny Blind
Personal information
Full name Dirk Franciscus Blind
Date of birth August 1, 1961 (1961-08-01) (age 46)
Place of birth    Oost-Souburg, Netherlands
Playing position Manager (former defender)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1979-1986
1986-1999
 Sparta Rotterdam
AFC Ajax		 165 (18)
372 (27)   
National team
1986-1996
 Netherlands 42 (1)
Teams managed
2005-2006 AFC Ajax

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Dirk Franciscus ("Danny") Blind (born August 1, 1961 in Oost-Souburg, Netherlands) is a football coach and former Dutch international player. He has played as a defender for RCS, Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax Amsterdam and the Dutch national team.

With Ajax he won all three European trophies (UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1987, the UEFA Cup in 1992 and the UEFA Champions League in 1995). He scored the final and winning penalty in the penalty shoot-out during the 1995 Intercontinental Cup meeting with Brazil's Grêmio.

Blind was head coach at Ajax from March 14, 2005 (appointed as successor to Ronald Koeman) until May 10, 2006, after only 422 days in charge. He led Ajax to victory in the Gatorade Cup and the Johan Cruyff Shield.

In December 2006 Blind crashed his car into a parked vehicle, injuring a 48-year old woman. A two-year-old child in her car remained uninjured. Blind had three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. [1]

In 2007-08, he became football director at his old club, Sparta. In the summer of 2008 he's returning to Ajax, to become the new football director in Amsterdam.

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As a Manager:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Danny Blind betrokken bij aanrijding, rtl.nl
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Awards
Preceded by
Flag of the Netherlands Ed de Goey		 Dutch Golden Shoe Winner
1995 – 1996		 Succeeded by
Flag of the Netherlands Jaap Stam
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Flag of the Netherlands Ronald Koeman		 AFC Ajax managers
2005 – 2006		 Succeeded by
Flag of the Netherlands Henk ten Cate
v • d • e
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
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v • d • e
Netherlands squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
1 de Goey • 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
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Netherlands squad - Euro 1996
1 van der Sar • 2 Reiziger • 3 Blind • 4 Seedorf • 5 Stam • 6 R. de Boer • 7 Taument • 8 Davids • 9 Kluivert • 10 Bergkamp • 11 Hoekstra • 12 Winter • 13 Numan • 14 Witschge • 15 Bogarde • 16 de Goey • 17 Cruijff • 18 de Kock • 19 Mulder • 20 Cocu • 21 Hesp • 22 Veldman • Coach: Hiddink
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AFC Ajax – Managers

Kirwan (1910–15) • Reynolds (1915–25) • Rose (1925–26) • Castle (1926–28) • Reynolds (1928–40) • Halpern (1940–41) • Volkers (1941–42) • van Kol (1942–42) • Reynolds (1942–47) • Smith (1947–48) • Crook (1948–50) • Thomson (1950–53) • Crook (1953–54) • Humenberger (1954–59) • Buckingham (1959–61) • Spurgeon (1961–62) • Gruber (1962–63) • Rowley (1963–64) • Buckingham (1964–65) • Michels (1965–71) • Kovács (1971–73) • Knoebel (1973–74) • Kraay (1974–75) • Michels (1975–76) • Ivić (1976–78) • Brom (1978–79) • Beenhakker (1979–81) • Linder (1981–82) • de Mos (1982–85) • Cruijff (1985–88) • Linder (1988) • Beenhakker (1989–91) • van Gaal (1991–97) • Olsen (1997–99) • Wouters (1999–00) • Adriaanse (2000–01) • Koeman (2001–05) • Blind (2005–06) • ten Cate (2006–07) • Koster (2007–08) • van Basten (July 2008–)