 De Mos in 2008 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adriaan de Mos | ||
| Date of birth | (1947-03-27)27 March 1947 (age 78) | ||
| Place of birth | The Hague,Netherlands | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1981 | Ajax (caretaker) | ||
| 1982–1985 | Ajax | ||
| 1986–1989 | Mechelen | ||
| 1989–1992 | Anderlecht | ||
| 1993–1994 | PSV Eindhoven | ||
| 1995–1996 | Werder Bremen | ||
| 1997–1998 | Standard Liège | ||
| 1998–1999 | Sporting Gijón | ||
| 1999 | Urawa Red Diamonds | ||
| 2000–2002 | Mechelen | ||
| 2003–2004 | Al Hilal | ||
| 2004–2005 | United Arab Emirates | ||
| 2006–2008 | Vitesse | ||
| 2009–2010 | Kavala | ||
| 2010 | Sparta Rotterdam | ||
Adriaan "Aad"de Mos (born 27 March 1947) is a Dutch retired professionalfootball manager whose career spanned for almost thirty years.
He has managed teams in his home country, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Greece, as well managing theUnited Arab Emirates national team. De Mos's biggest success was winning the1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup as manager of Belgian clubMechelen.
De Mos was born inThe Hague,Netherlands on 27 March 1947. He played in the youth team of local club ADO Den Haag.[1] he began his managing as an assistant toLeo Beenhakker atAjax, and continued to do so whileKurt Linder was manager.
After Linder left, de Mos replaced him as Ajax manager in 1982, and retained the role until he was dismissed shortly before the end of the 1984–1985 season. With Ajax de Mos won thenational championship twice and thecup once.
After leaving Ajax, de Mos became coach ofMechelen in Belgium. There he won thenational title,cup and, in 1988, theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup, beating his former club Ajax 1–0 in thefinal. He also won the1988 European Super Cup with the club.
De Mos left Mechelen after three years to becomeAnderlecht manager, where he again reached the1990 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, this time losing toSampdoria inGothenburg.
In 1993, after his successful stints with Mechelen and Anderlecht, de Mos came back to the Netherlands and became the new manager ofPSV Eindhoven, faced with the task of cleaning up an aging team. In his first season, PSV placed third in the league.
In his second season, despite some major purchases, PSV and de Mos did not perform well. In September 1994, he positioned the centre forwardErik Meijer, known for being able to make good headers, for incomprehensible reasons as a back againstBayer 04 Leverkusen.
After leaving PSV, de Mos managed 6 clubs and one national team in the span of 10 years, not winning any major trophies. In that period, he managedWerder Bremen,Standard Liège,Sporting Gijón,Urawa Red Diamonds, Mechelen once again,Al Hilal and theUnited Arab Emirates national team. During that time, de Mos was only able to win theBelgian Second Division with Mechelen in the 2001–02 and promote the club back up to the Belgian First Division A.
De Mos ultimately ended up inArnhem on the bench atVitesse in 2006. He was signed at the last moment after the club failed to attract the Belgian managerJohan Boskamp, largely because Boskamp did not have the correct Dutch papers and no dispensation was given by theKNVB.
After a disappointing first season, Vitesse ended in 12th and in the subsequentplay-offs they fought for a place in theUEFA Intertoto Cup. After successful matches againstNAC Breda (3–2 and 0–1 wins) andNEC (1–0 and 0–2 wins), they lost in the final againstUtrecht on away goals. The2007–08 season began with some success. The team won their first three matches, which was the best start to a season in the club's history, however the season again ended in failure, finishing in 12th place again. On 28 April 2008, the club management announced that the contract with de Mos was dissolved immediately.
De Mos was regularly shown on television as a pundit on the formerTalpa TV and the BelgianSporza. During the2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, de Mos was as an analyst for theNOS and the BelgianVIER.
De Mos signed a six-month contract with Greek clubKavala, with an option to extend it up to January 2010, following the sacking of Vangelis Goutis.[2] Shortly after, he was followed by the signings ofDenilson,Ebi Smolarek andDiogo Rincón during the winter transfer period.[3] He found immediate success, most notably with an away win againstPanathinaikos in February, with the Athens club leading the league table at the time.
His notable results in Greece, despite his short stay at the club, coupled with his trademark managerial style, led popular Dutch magazineVoetbal International to give him the nickname of "Koning van Kavala" (King of Kavala).[4] On 2 April 2010, de Mos resigned from his position as manager, allegedly after disputes with the club owner.
On 2 April 2010, only one day after his resignation from Kavala, de Mos was named new manager ofSparta Rotterdam, replacing dismissed bossFrans Adelaar. He arrived at a time when the club was facing relegation with only a one-point advantage over 16th-placedADO Den Haag. His adventure at Sparta started with little success: a 1–1 home draw toHeracles Almelo was followed by two consecutive losses, with his side being overtaken by ADO Den Haag, forcing the Rotterdam team to take part to the post-season promotion and relegation tournament in order to maintain its place in the Eredivisie.
In the first leg of therelegation play-offs second round, Sparta were stunned byEerste Divisie outsidersHelmond Sport, losing the game 2–1. Sparta then managed to get back from that loss by winning 2–0 in a dramatic return leg, thus ensuring them a place in the third and final round, in which they challenged crosstown rivalsExcelsior in a two-legged derby for a place in the2010–11 Eredivisie.
After the first leg ended 0–0 at Excelsior's home stadium, Sparta was eliminated in a dramatic return match, with Excelsior missing a penalty, and then Sparta scoring the 1–0 goal in injury time only to suffer an equaliser only seconds later. The game ended with a 1–1 draw, as Sparta was consequently relegated in the2010–11 Eerste Divisie. De Mos left Sparta shortly after, stating that the results of Sparta did not match the wishes of both de Mos and Sparta's ownership at the time.
De Mos has a daughter, Tessa (born 1982) who is active as a FIFA-licensedfootballagent since 2005, and currently works on behalf of severalEredivisie players.[5]
| Team | From | To | Record | Ref. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
 Ajax (caretaker) | 11 March 1981 | 30 June 1981 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 19 | +22 | 072.22 | |
| Ajax | 1 July 1982 | 6 May 1985 | 121 | 82 | 23 | 16 | 353 | 147 | +206 | 067.77 | |
 Mechelen | 1 February 1986 | 30 June 1989 | 167 | 105 | 38 | 24 | 286 | 126 | +160 | 062.87 | |
| Anderlecht | 1 July 1989 | 30 June 1992 | 141 | 89 | 26 | 26 | 301 | 118 | +183 | 063.12 | |
| PSV Eindhoven | 1 July 1993 | 28 October 1994 | 50 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 95 | 62 | +33 | 048.00 | |
 Werder Bremen | 1 July 1995 | 9 January 1996 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 37 | 32 | +5 | 030.77 | |
| Standard Liège | 1 July 1997 | 20 October 1997 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 030.77 | |
 Sporting de Gijón | 19 October 1998 | 12 January 1999 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 16 | −3 | 021.43 | |
 Urawa Red Diamonds | 1 July 1999 | 3 December 1999 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 20 | 28 | −8 | 035.29 | [6] |
 Al Hilal | 4 March 2003 | 14 March 2004 | 39 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 66 | 30 | +36 | 056.41 | |
 United Arab Emirates | 9 June 2004 | 30 June 2005 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 24 | −1 | 026.32 | |
| Vitesse | 19 June 2006 | 28 April 2008 | 77 | 30 | 14 | 33 | 110 | 123 | −13 | 038.96 | |
 Kavala | 1 February 2010 | 1 April 2010 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 17 | +0 | 041.67 | |
| Sparta Rotterdam | 4 April 2010 | 18 May 2010 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 012.50 | |
| Total | 722 | 397 | 164 | 161 | 1,385 | 774 | +611 | 054.99 | |||
Ajax[7]
Mechelen[8]
Anderlecht[9]
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