Wim Jonk
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Wilhelmus Maria Jonk | ||
| Date of birth | 12 October 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Volendam, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Central midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Ajax (Under-19 manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1988 | Volendam | 59 | (28) |
| 1988–1993 | Ajax | 96 | (18) |
| 1993–1995 | Internazionale | 54 | (8) |
| 1995–1998 | PSV | 89 | (20) |
| 1998–2000 | Sheffield Wednesday | 70 | (3) |
| Total | 368 | (77) | |
| National team | |||
| 1992–1999 | Netherlands | 49 | (11) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2008–2011 | individual trainer AFC Ajax youth academy | ||
| 2011–2015 | head of academy AFC Ajax | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Wilhelmus "Wim" Maria Jonk (born 12 October 1966 in Volendam) is a Dutch football coach, former international player and former Head of Academy at Ajax Amsterdam. Together with Jordi Cruyff, Jonk manages Cruyff Football and is responsible for the worldwide continuation and dissemination of the football legacy of Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff, who died on March 24, 2016.
Jonk started his career in amateur club RKAV Volendam, before signing for Volendam in 1986. As a central midfield player, he scored many goals, assisting his club to promotion to the Eredivisie in 1987, where he scored a further of five goals. Ajax monitored his progress keenly and his skills did not escape the scouts of the club, who hastened his transfer to Amsterdam in 1988.
At Ajax, he slotted into the squad easily, even scoring 6 goals in his debut season. First team chances were regular, if not abundant, but his first appearance for the Dutch national team seemed a long way away. His gameplay is not very artistic, but he has earned a reputation as a midfield anchor in the same mould as other Dutch players like Aron Winter, Erwin Koeman, Philip Cocu, Mark van Bommel and Kevin Strootman. Therefore, with the Dutch 1990 World Cup squad brimming with attack-minded midfielders like Richard Witschge and Jan Wouters, he was unsurprisingly omitted from selection for the national team in the late 1980s as well as the 1990 World Cup squad. He helped Ajax to the 1992 UEFA Cup Final in which he scored to help them overcome Torino.
His pin-point passing, outstanding vision and combative and hard-working style of play earned him his debut for the Dutch national team in a 3–2 win in a friendly against Austria on 27 May 1992 and he signed on for Internazionale in 1993 before the 1994 World Cup, where he was joined by compatriot Dennis Bergkamp. The Italian club had seemingly followed their illustrious city rivals Milan into buying Dutch players in the hope to emulate Milan's success with Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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