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sack Adriaanse...Rijkaard new coach? |
29 Nov 2001
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3 - 2 win against Twente was not enough to keep Co Adriaanse in the saddle
until Christmas after all and the former FC Den Haag, PEC Zwolle and
Willem II trainer has been sacked. There will be a press conference at
14:00 European time to make the official announcement but the news is
hardly a surprise. The Amsterdammers failed to achieve their first
(financially) important goal this season, when they exited the Champions
League, were then knocked out of the UEFA Cup and put in a series of poor
(some might say disastrous) performances in the Ere Divisie. Co Adriaanse
was brought into the club as the man who would turn Ajax into a top
European side again, being an Amsterdammer himself and someone who knows
the club well from his time as head of the youth academy between 1992 and
1997. Unfortunately for him Frank Kales, the director who was resposible for him
starting his new job on March 27th 2000, was himself sacked and the new boss Arie van
Eijden is not a 'fan' of Adriaanse and neither is the club's technical
director Leo Beenhakker, the latter beingy critical of the coach's
tactics this season. Adriaanse had also made himself unpopular with the
fans, firstly with his defensive tactics and also by recent comments made
about former Ajax and Oranje striker Marco van Basten. 'Recuperation-trainer' Leo van Veen is said to be the
man who will take over, with Danny Blind as assistant, until the end of
this season but all eyes are now focussed on former Oranje coach Frank
Rijkaard, now looking after Sparta, who is widely tipped to be the new
coach.
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