- Leo Beenhakker
Football manager infobox
playername = Leo Beenhakker
fullname = Leo Beenhakker
nickname = Don Leo
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1942|8|2
cityofbirth =Rotterdam
countryofbirth =Netherlands
currentclub = Flagicon|PolandPoland
position = Manager
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manageryears = 1972-1975
1975-1976
1979-1981
1981-1984
1985
1985-1986
1986-1989
1989-1991
1990
1992
1992-1993
1993-1994
1994-1995
1995-1996
1996
1996-1997
1997-2000
2000-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-present
2007
managerclubs = flagicon|NEDSC Cambuur
flagicon|NEDGo Ahead Eagles
flagicon|NEDAFC Ajax
flagicon|SpainReal Zaragoza
flagicon|NEDFC Volendam
flagicon|NED Netherlands
flagicon|SpainReal Madrid
flagicon|NEDAFC Ajax
flagicon|NED Netherlands
flagicon|SpainReal Madrid
flagicon|SwitzerlandGrasshopper-Club Zürich
flagicon|Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
flagicon|MexicoClub América
flagicon|Turkeyİstanbulspor A.Ş.
flagicon|Mexico Guadalajara
flagicon|NEDVitesse
flagicon|NEDFeyenoord Rotterdam
flagicon|NEDAFC Ajax
flagicon|MexicoClub América
flagicon|NEDDe Graafschap
flagicon|TRI Trinidad and Tobago
flagicon|Poland Poland
flagicon|NEDFeyenoord Rotterdam Leo Beenhakker (born
August 2 ,1942 inRotterdam ,Zuid-Holland ) is an international Dutch football coach, currently the coach of the Polish national team.He has been the coach of several prestigious clubs including Ajax,
Feyenoord ,Real Madrid ,Real Zaragoza andClub América . He has also coached the Saudi Arabian and Dutch national teams. He coached the national team of Trinidad and Tobago in the year leading up to the2006 FIFA World Cup . Under Beenhakker's guidance the team managed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, where the team secured a (goalless) draw against Sweden in its first match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and gave England cause for concern in the second match.From 2000 to 2003 Beenhakker was Director of Technical Affairs with Ajax. In that period he fired coach
Co Adriaanse and replaced him withRonald Koeman .Because he has been active in Spanish football he has the nickname "Don Leo". He is famous for his fondness of
cigar s and his dry humor.On
11 July 2006 Leo Beenhakker was appointed as the manager of the Polish national football team. Originally he was appointed to manage Poland until the end ofEuro 2008 , however his contract was prolonged until November 2009 and the end ofWorld Cup 2010 qualifiers.Feyenoord hired him on5 May 2007 to coach the team through the 2006/2007 play-offs.On
17 November 2007 , beating Belgium 2-0, he managed to qualify with Polish national team to2008 European Football Championship - the first coach ever to do so; even in its golden years, the seventies and eighties, Poland never qualified to play in the European Football Championship.On
20 February 2008 he was decorated with the Order ofPolonia Restituta , by the Polish President. The Order can be conferred for outstanding achievements in the fields of education, science, sport, culture, art, economics, defense of the country, social work, civil service, or for furthering good relations between countries.He reportedly speaks Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.Fact|date=May 2008
succession box
before=flagicon|Trinidad and TobagoBertille St Clair
title=Trinidad and Tobago National Team Coach
years=March 31, 2005 – June 26, 2006
after= flagicon|NetherlandsWim Rijsbergen succession box
before=flagicon|POLPaweł Janas
title=Poland National Team Coach
years=August 16, 2006 –
after= still holding the post
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