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| Full name | Jan Jacobus Wouters | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1960-07-17)17 July 1960 (age 65) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980–1986 | Utrecht | 168 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Ajax | 150 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Bayern Munich | 66 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | PSV | 52 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 434 | (55) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1994[1] | Netherlands | 70 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Utrecht (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Utrecht (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Ajax (youth) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2006 | Rangers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | PSV (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | PSV (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | PSV (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Utrecht (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Utrecht | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Kasımpaşa (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Feyenoord (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Fortuna Sittard (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022-present | Ajax youth (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Jan Jacobus Wouters (born 17 July 1960) is a Dutch professionalfootball coach and former player. He played as adefensive midfielder and wasDutch Footballer of the Year in 1990.[2]
Wouters played for several clubs includingUtrecht,Ajax,Bayern Munich andPSV. He was also aNetherlands international team member (70 caps, four goals) and was hugely influential in 1988 when the Netherlands won theEuropean Football Championship.[3]
Wouters participated in four tournaments as player of the Dutch national team:UEFA Euro 1988,1990 FIFA World Cup,UEFA Euro 1992, and1994 FIFA World Cup.[4] He played his final match in the Dutch team during the quarter finals of the 1994 World Cup against later winnersBrazil on 9 July 1994.[3]
Wouters started his career as head coach at Ajax after the sacking of coachMorten Olsen in December 1998.[5] Wouters was sacked by Ajax in March 2000.[6]
He was a coach ofScottish Premier League clubRangers underDick Advocaat and thenAlex McLeish, starting in July 2001.[7] He left Rangers at the end of the2005–06 season, along with McLeish andAndy Watson.
Wouters is infamous to England supporters after elbowingPaul Gascoigne and fracturing his cheekbone during a World Cup qualifier in 1993 at Wembley Stadium.[8] Gascoigne was forced to wear a Phantom of the Opera style facemask to protect his fractured cheekbone until his injury healed. The following day, theDaily Mirror labelled Wouters a "Dutch thug". The match was drawn 2–2 and damaged England's hopes of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States, despite England leading the match 2–0.
| Club | Season | League[9] | National Cup | Other | Continental[10] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Utrecht | 1980–81 | Eredivisie | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 1 | ||
| 1981–82 | 31 | 4 | 8 | 2 | — | 2[a] | 0 | 43 | 6 | |||
| 1982–83 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | 1[a] | 0 | 29 | 6 | |||
| 1983–84 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 33 | 5 | ||||
| 1984–85 | 25 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 31 | 2 | ||||
| 1985–86 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[b] | 0 | 36 | 5 | |||
| Total | 166[9] | 21[9] | 20 | 4 | — | 5[10] | 0[10] | 193 | 25 | |||
| Ajax | 1986–87 | Eredivisie | 32 | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | 9[b] | 1 | 48 | 5 | |
| 1987–88 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 7[b] | 0 | 36 | 4 | ||
| 1988–89 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 1[a] | 0 | 27 | 0 | |||
| 1989–90 | 28 | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | 2[a] | 1 | 34 | 7 | |||
| 1990–91 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | —[d] | 32 | 6 | ||||
| 1991–92 | 11 | 2 | — | — | 4[a] | 0 | 14 | 1 | ||||
| Total[11] | 151[9] | 23[9] | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 23[10] | 2[10] | 194 | 23 | ||
| Bayern Munich | 1991–92 | Bundesliga | 17 | 1 | — | — | — | 17 | 1 | |||
| 1992–93 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 4 | ||||
| 1993–94 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 4[a] | 0 | 24 | 2 | |||
| Total | 68 | 6 | 6 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | 76 | 7 | |||
| PSV | 1993–94 | Eredivisie | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 1 | ||
| 1994–95 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[a] | 0 | 25 | 1 | |||
| 1995–96 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | 3[a] | 0 | 27 | 3 | |||
| Total | 52[9] | 5[9] | 6 | 0 | — | 5[10] | 0[10] | 63 | 5 | |||
| Career total | 437 | 55 | 50 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 524 | 60 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1988 | 10 | 1 | |
| 1989 | 5 | 2 | |
| 1990 | 11 | 0 | |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 | |
| 1992 | 13 | 1 | |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 | |
| Total | 70 | 4 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 May 1988 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1–0 | 1–2 | Friendly | |
| 2 | 4 January 1989 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly | |
| 3 | 6 September 1989 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2–0 | 2–2 | Friendly | |
| 4 | 25 March 1992 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
Utrecht
Bayern Munich[13]
PSV
Netherlands
Individual
Wouters was repeatedly referenced in aSaturday Night Live sketch on 4 February 2023 featuringJames Austin Johnson as a British rapper named Milly Pounds.[16]