Rinus Michels
Michels in 1984
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels | ||
| Date of birth | 9 February 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 3 March 2005 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Aalst, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1958 | Ajax | 264 | (122) |
| National team | |||
| 1950–1954 | Netherlands | 5 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1960–1964 | JOS | ||
| 1964–1965 | DWS | ||
| 1965–1971 | Ajax | ||
| 1971–1975 | Barcelona | ||
| 1974 | Netherlands | ||
| 1975–1976 | Ajax | ||
| 1976–1978 | Barcelona | ||
| 1979–1980 | Los Angeles Aztecs | ||
| 1980–1983 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 1984–1985 | Netherlands | ||
| 1986–1988 | Netherlands | ||
| 1988–1989 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| 1990–1992 | Netherlands | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Marinus "Rinus" Jacobus Hendricus Michels OON (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɪxəls]; 9 February 1928 – 3 March 2005) was a Dutch association football player and coach. He played his entire career for the club AFC Ajax, which he later coached, and was a member of the Netherlands national team both as a player and as manager.
Michels became most notable for his coaching achievements, having won the European Cup with Ajax and the Spanish league with Barcelona, and having had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, which he led to reach the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and to win the 1988 UEFA European Championship. He is credited with the invention of a major football playing style and set of tactics known as "Total Football" in the 1970s, and was named Coach of the Century by FIFA in 1999. In January 2017, Michels was named among the ten greatest coaches since the foundation of UEFA in 1954.
Michels was born in Amsterdam and grew up at the Olympiaweg, a street near the Olympic Stadium. He celebrated his ninth birthday on 9 February 1936, when he received a pair of football boots and an Ajax jersey. Moments later, he was playing with his father at a small field near their home. Via Joop Köhler, a friend of the family who was commissioner at Ajax, Michels was introduced to the club and became a junior member in 1940. When World War II started, and specially during the Dutch famine of 1944, Michels' career was set on hold.
French club Lille had also wanted to contract Michels, but a playing career abroad did not materialize as the Royal Netherlands Army did not allow him to go because he had to serve on active duty.
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