 Van Marwijk asAustralia manager in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lambertus van Marwijk[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1952-05-19)19 May 1952 (age 73) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Deventer, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | MVV Maastricht (supervisory board member) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1969–1975 | Go Ahead Eagles | 146 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1978 | AZ | 69 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1986 | MVV | 225 | (35) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Fortuna Sittard | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | FC Assent | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 468 | (72) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Netherlands | 1 | (0[2]) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| SV Meerssen[3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Fortuna Sittard | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Feyenoord | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Borussia Dortmund | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Feyenoord | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Hamburger SV | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Lambertus van Marwijk (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈbɛrtfɑˈmɑrʋɛik]; born 19 May 1952) is a Dutchfootball manager who is a member of the supervisory board forMVV Maastricht. As a player, he played for theGo Ahead Eagles,AZ,MVV andFortuna Sittard amongst other clubs and also represented theNetherlands once.
In 1982, van Marwijk began his transition into a manager, retiring as a player in 1988 and becoming a full-time manager. In 2002, he won theUEFA Cup withFeyenoord. Van Marwijk managed the Netherlands from 2008 until June 2012 and guided the country to the2010 FIFA World Cup final, which was lost 1–0 in extra-time toSpain. He left this position after losing all three matches atUEFA Euro 2012. He qualifiedSaudi Arabia for the2018 FIFA World Cup but left before the World Cup began; he promptly coachedAustralia during the tournament.
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Van Marwijk was born inDeventer,Overijssel. As a forward and a midfielder, he played 393 matches in the Dutch highest division, theEredivisie. He began his career atGo Ahead Eagles, his hometown club. After six seasons, he left Deventer and started to play inAlkmaar, forAZ. In 1978, he moved toMVV Maastricht, playing there for eight seasons before playing one season forFortuna Sittard. He ended his playing career in 1988 after playing one season for the Belgium Football Club Assent. Van Marwijk had opportunities to play for bigger clubs likeFeyenoord orWest Ham United, but because of injuries he never made a big transfer.[citation needed]
In 1975, van Marwijk was called up byRinus Michels to play for theDutch national team in a friendly match againstYugoslavia, which was his only cap.
Van Marwijk began his professional managerial career at his former clubFortuna Sittard. His side finished seventh in the Eredivisie in 1998, and reached theKNVB Cup final in 1999. Fortuna had players likeMark van Bommel,Kevin Hofland andWilfred Bouma during that period.
In 2000, van Marwijk became the manager ofRotterdam-based club Feyenoord. In his first season, he led Feyenoord to a second-place finish in the Eredivisie and in his second season, 2001–02, he had one of the biggest successes of his career. After beatingSC Freiburg,Rangers,PSV andInternazionale in the knock-out stage, he won theUEFA Cup final after beatingBorussia Dortmund in thefinal, 3–2.[4][5] In October 2002 he extended his contract until the summer of 2004, with the option of one more year.[6] Feyenoord ended in third place in the league with van Marwijk in the2001–02,2002–03 and2003–04 seasons.
In June 2004, van Marwijk became manager of GermanBundesliga club Borussia Dortmund on a two-year deal afterMatthias Sammer moved toVfB Stuttgart.[7]
In both of his first two seasons with Dortmund,2004–05 and2005–06, he ended seventh in the Bundesliga table. During his third season, his side was stagnating, situated mid-table in ninth, whereupon van Marwijk and the club announced that they would part ways at the end of the2006–07 season.[8] On 18 December 2006, however, Dortmund and van Marwijk parted company earlier than announced.[9]
In June 2007, van Marwijk returned to Feyenoord, also bringing back Feyenoord veteranGiovanni van Bronckhorst fromBarcelona. He also brought inTim de Cler,Kevin Hofland andRoy Makaay, and with this Feyenoord squad, he won theKNVB Cup in 2008 after beatingRoda JC 2–0 in thefinal.[10]
Van Marwijk's return to Feyenoord would be short-lived; before the end of the2007–08 season, it was announced van Marwijk would succeedMarco van Basten as head coach of theDutch national team afterUEFA Euro 2008. During his two spells as coach of Feyenoord, five seasons in total, they would finish second once, in2000–01. Van Marwijk was succeeded at Feyenoord byGertjan Verbeek.
Van Marwijk's management staff as Dutch coach included former internationalsFrank de Boer andPhillip Cocu, as well asDick Voorn.[11] In the2010 World Cup, van Marwijk led the Dutch to thefinal againstSpain after defeatingSlovakia in the round of 16,Brazil in the quarter-finals andUruguay in the semi-finals. They lost, however, 1–0 in extra time. He opted for a very hard style of play, especially during the final, in strong contrast with the Dutch football tradition.
On 8 December 2011, van Marwijk extended his contract with theRoyal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) for four more years through to the summer of 2016, including participation in the2014 World Cup andEuro 2016 tournaments.[12] At theEuro 2012 tournament, however, the Dutch ended up without a single point and being widely criticized, prompting van Marwijk to resign on 27 June.[13]
On 26 September 2013, van Marwijk became the head coach of German sideHamburger SV after refusing offers fromSouthampton andSporting CP.[14] On 8 February, Hamburg lost for their sixth consecutive league match and gave up three goals in their fifth-straight league match.[15] The supervisory board at Hamburg met on 9 February 2014 to discuss the future of van Marwijk, opting to let him continue in his role.[16] He was then, however, sacked on 15 February[17] after Hamburg lost 4–2 toEintracht Braunschweig.[18] Hamburg had lost seven-straight league matches and aDFB-Pokal loss toBayern Munich.[19] His assistant coach, Roel Coumans, was sacked as well.[19] Van Marwijk lasted 143 days at the helm of Hamburg.[18][19]
On 26 August 2015, van Marwijk became the new manager of theSaudi Arabia national team on a one-year contract.[20] On 3 September 2015, he managed his first game, winning 7–0 againstEast Timor in the2018 Asian World Cup qualifiers. On 24 March 2016, he clinched qualification to the third (final) round by winning 2–0 againstMalaysia. After criticism from local media for not staying in the country and watching league games, van Marwijk helped Saudi Arabia to directly qualify for the2018 FIFA World Cup in their last game against Japan – their fifth FIFA World Cup and first since 2006. Days after their last qualifying match, he left his job having been unable to agree on a new contract with theSaudi Arabian Football Federation.[21]
On 24 January 2018, van Marwijk was appointed as the new head coach of theAustralian national team on a short-term deal until the end of the2018 FIFA World Cup.[22] On his debut on 23 March, the team lost 4–1 to Norway in a friendly inOslo,[23] followed four days later by a goalless draw withColombia in England.[24] In warmups ahead of the finals, the Socceroos beat theCzech Republic andHungary;[25] the 4–0 win over the former was that country's record defeat.[26] Australia were eliminated from the group stage in Russia, with one draw and two losses.[27]
On 20 March 2019, van Marwijk became the new manager of theUnited Arab Emirates national team.[28][29] On 4 December that year, thenation's football association announced his sacking following their 4–2 defeat torivalsQatar in the24th Arabian Gulf Cup.[30]
Van Marwijk returned to the same post on 14 December 2020.[31] At the2021 FIFA Arab Cup in Qatar, the team lost 5–0 in the quarter-finals to their rivals.[32] He was sacked again on 12 February 2022, with the team confirmed out of the automatic places in2022 FIFA World Cupqualification with two games left.[33]
Van Marwijk's daughter, Andra, married the Dutch international footballerMark van Bommel.[34] Their sonsThomas andRuben van Bommel made their professional football debuts withMVV Maastricht in the early 2020s.[35][36]
In June 2022, Van Marwijk received the Lifetime Achievement Award at theRinus Michels Awards for Dutch football managers.[37]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Go Ahead Eagles | 1969–70 | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1970–71 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 16 | 2 | |||
| 1971–72 | 39 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | 41 | 4 | |||
| 1972–73 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 36 | 3 | |||
| 1973–74 | 27 | 2 | – | 27 | 2 | |||||
| 1974–75 | 30 | 5 | – | 30 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 146 | 16 | 4 | 0 | – | 150 | 16 | |||
| AZ | 1975–76 | Eredivisie | 22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | 24 | 6 | |
| 1976–77 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 0 | – | 31 | 9 | |||
| 1977–78 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1[a] | 0 | 27 | 6 | ||
| Total | 69 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 21 | ||
| MVV | 1978–79 | Eredivisie | 32 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 33 | 1 | |
| 1979–80 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 0 | – | 33 | 7 | |||
| 1980–81 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 12 | 0 | |||
| 1981–82 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 4 | – | 32 | 5 | |||
| 1982–83 | Eerste Divisie | 27 | 8 | – | 27 | 8 | ||||
| 1983–84 | 31 | 15 | – | 31 | 15 | |||||
| 1984–85 | Eredivisie | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 33 | 1 | ||
| 1985–86 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 31 | 2 | |||
| Total | 225 | 35 | 7 | 4 | – | 232 | 39 | |||
| Fortuna Sittard | 1986–87 | Eredivisie | 11 | 1 | – | 11 | 1 | |||
| FC Assent | 1987–88 | Belgian Second Division | 17 | 0 | – | 17 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 468 | 72 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 492 | 77 | ||
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | Ref. | |||
| Hedera Millen | 1990 | 1991 | — | |||||
| RKVCL Limmel | 1991 | 1995 | ||||||
| Meerssen | 1995 | 1998 | ||||||
| Fortuna Sittard | 1998 | 2000 | ||||||
| Feyenoord | 1 July 2000[38] | 30 June 2004[38] | 182 | 110 | 32 | 40 | 060.44 | |
| Borussia Dortmund | 1 July 2004[39] | 18 December 2006[39] | 95 | 35 | 32 | 28 | 036.84 | [39] |
| Feyenoord | 1 July 2007[38] | 31 July 2008[38] | 38 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 063.16 | |
| Netherlands | 1 August 2008 | 27 June 2012 | 52 | 34 | 10 | 8 | 065.38 | |
| Hamburger SV | 26 September 2013[14] | 15 February 2014[17] | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 023.53 | [40] |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 September 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 065.00 | |
| Australia | 24 January 2018 | 14 July 2018 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 028.57 | |
| UAE | 20 March 2019 | 4 December 2019 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 054.55 | [41] |
| 14 December 2020 | 7 February 2022 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 052.63 | ||
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