His name is Maaten Cornelis "
Martin" Jol was born in January 16, 1956. He is former
football player and current coach of Fulham in the Premier League. Jol was
playing football as midfielder, where he played over 400 matches in Germany,
Netherlands, and England. Jol also earned three caps with the Dutch national
team. When he turned to his new career as a coach, he trained many times in
many countries, and the beginning was from Roda JC, RKC Waalwijk JC, and AFC
Ajax in Netherlands, then in the German Bundesliga with Hamburger SV, and
Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.
Playing career of Martin Jol:
Martin Jol started his playing career from amateur team to join then to
the local professional team ADO Den Haag in 1973. He won the Dutch Cup with FC
Twente in 1975. In 1978-1979 Jol moved to the Bundesliga to play with Bayern
Munich to return back in 1979 to the Dutch Eredivisie to play with Twente
again. Then in October 1980 he moved to join West Bromwich Albion in England.
Jol then signed with Coventry City in 1984, after one season he retuned back to
Den Haag in 1955, where he won the Dutch Footballer of the year 1985 award.
International Playing of Martin Jol:
Martin Jol won 10 schoolboy caps, in addition he appeared with the senior
team in three times, where it held in the 1980 Mundialito against Uruguay.
Managerial career of Martin Jol:
His early career in Netherlands:
Martin Jol started his new career as a coach for amateur team ADO Den Haag,
where he led them to highest local amateur division. He moved to another
amateur team SVV Scheveningen when they won the national non-league
championship. Jol then coached Roda JC in the professional Eredivisie, where
they won the Dutch Cup in 1997. Martin Jol moved then to RKC Waalwijk and he
saved them from relegation also got the Dutch Football Writers Coach of the
Year in 2001and 2002.
Tottenham Hotspur:
In November 8, 2004 Martin Jol was appointed as Tottenham Hotspur manger
as successor of Jacques Santini. Martin Jol won the FA Manager of the Month
award in December 2004 after good start of the team by winning five league
games in a row. Jol led them to end the league in the 9th place
although he seeks to book a place for his team in the European qualification.
Tottenham administration signed with him a contract for three- years in August
2005.
In the next season Martin Jol led Tottenham to the 5th place
away one place only from qualification to the Champions League, this was the
highest league finish for Tottenham since 1990. So that’s mean they qualified
for UEFA Cup.
In 2006-2007 seasons Martin Jol presented to Tottenham Fans a big win
over Chelsea, and they reached to the semi-final in the FA cup against Arsenal,
and the quarter final of the UEFA Cup and finished the Premier league in the 4th
place.
Hamburg:
In the 2008-2009 seasons Martin Jol moved to the German Bundesliga to be
the Manager of Hamburger SVR. He led Hamburger to finish the league in the 5th
place and qualify for the Europa League for the next year. They also reached
with Jol to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and the German League Cup.
Ajax:
In 2009 Martin Jol signed with AFC Ajax as a successor of Marco van
Basten. Ajax started to slip down to 7th place in the Eredivisie.
But he led them to win the Dutch Cup. But Jol resigned as manager of Ajax in
December 2010.
Fulham:
Martin Jol moved to the English Premier League to sign with Fulham a
contract for two years after the departure of Mark Hughes. So Jol led Fulham to
finish the Premier league in the 9th place collecting 52 points.
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