Aad de Mos
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adriaan de Mos | ||
| Date of birth | 27 March 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | The Hague, Netherlands | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1982–1985 | Ajax | ||
| 1986–1989 | KV Mechelen | ||
| 1989–1992 | Anderlecht | ||
| 1993–1995 | PSV Eindhoven | ||
| 1995–1996 | Werder Bremen | ||
| 1997–1998 | Standard Liège | ||
| 1998–1999 | Sporting Gijón | ||
| 1999 | Urawa Red Diamonds | ||
| 2000–2002 | KV Mechelen | ||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Hilal | ||
| 2004–2005 | United Arab Emirates | ||
| 2006–2008 | Vitesse Arnhem | ||
| 2009–2010 | Kavala | ||
| 2010 | Sparta Rotterdam | ||
Aad de Mos (born 27 March 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch football coach, currently without a club. De Mos has coached teams in his home country, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Greece, as well managing the United Arab Emirates national team. De Mos won the 1988 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as manager of KV Mechelen.
De Mos began his management career at Ajax. He replaced Kurt Linder as manager in 1982, and retained the role until he was dismissed shortly before the end of the 1984–1985 season. With Ajax de Mos won the national championship twice and the cup once.
After leaving Ajax, de Mos became coach of KV Mechelen in Belgium. Here he won the national title, cup and, in 1988, the European Cup Winners' Cup, beating his former club Ajax 1–0 in the final. He also won the 1988 UEFA Super Cup. He left to become RSC Anderlecht manager, where he again reached the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1990, this time losing to Sampdoria in Gothenburg.
In 1993, after his successful stints with KV Mechelen and Anderlecht, he signed as manager of PSV faced with the task with cleaning up an aging team. In his first season PSV placed third in the league. In his second season, despite some major purchases, he did not perform well. In September 1994, de Mos positioned the centre forward Erik Meijer, known for being able to make good headers, for incomprehensible reasons as a back against Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Even at these clubs, he did not win any prizes and was employed for only a relatively short time. After working in Spain, Japan and the Middle East, de Mos ultimately ended up in Arnhem on the bench at Vitesse. He was signed at the last moment after the club failed to attract the Belgian coach Johan Boskamp, largely because Johan Boskamp did not have the correct Dutch papers and no dispensation was given by the KNVB. After a disappointing first season Vitesse Arnhem ended 12th and in the subsequent play-offs they fought for a place in the Intertoto cup. After successful matches against NAC Breda (3–2 and 0–1 wins) and NEC (1–0 and 0–2 wins), they lost in the final against FC Utrecht on away goals. The 2007/2008 season began with some success. The team won their first three matches, which was the best start to a season in the club's history, however the season again ended in failure, finishing in 12th place. On 28 April 2008, the club management announced that the contract with de Mos was dissolved immediately.
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