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Player<\/STRONG>

CLUB<\/U><\/STRONG>

Ajax<\/STRONG>
Eredivisie: 1984–85
KNVB Cup: 1985–86

PSV<\/STRONG>
Eredivisie: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89
KNVB Cup: 1987–88, 1988–89
European Cup: 1987–88

Barcelona<\/STRONG>
La Liga: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94
Copa del Rey: 1989–90
Supercopa de España: 1991, 1992, 1994
European Cup\/UEFA Champions League: 1991–92; runner-up: 1993–94
European Super Cup: 1992

INTERNATIONAL<\/U><\/STRONG>

Netherlands<\/STRONG>
UEFA European Championship: 1988

INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>

Dutch Footballer of the Year:
1987, 1988

UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament:
1988

UEFA Champions League top scorer:
1993–94

UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll:
No. 26

Manager

CLUB<\/U><\/STRONG>

Ajax<\/STRONG>
Eredivisie: 2001–02, 2003–04
KNVB Cup: 2001–02
Johan Cruyff Shield: 2002

Benfica<\/STRONG>
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2005

PSV
<\/STRONG>Eredivisie: 2006–07

Valencia<\/STRONG>
Copa del Rey: 2007–08

AZ<\/STRONG>
Johan Cruyff Shield: 2009

INTERNATIONAL<\/U>

Netherlands<\/STRONG>
UEFA Nations League runner-up: 2018–19

Barcelona<\/STRONG>
Copa del Rey: 2020–21

INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>

Rinus Michels Award:<\/STRONG>
2012

Premier League Manager of the Month:<\/STRONG>
September 2014, January 2015, January 2016<\/P>","5FF2086A93BB2EE023D0558B503D08D2":"Netherlands","4406E48704A97D69D6728A5D009266729A239ADB920A5D02":"1","2EBB7B469EDB7E39":"Ronald Koeman","7E907563BF179508":"concern@knvb.nl","E45C1F715A41C4086A1A5DFF72C29C40":"54990","622EB7B4B85B2C76":"

First international
<\/STRONG>Belgium 1–4 Netherlands (Antwerp, Belgium; 30 April 1905)

Biggest win
<\/STRONG>Netherlands 11–0 San Marino (Eindhoven, Netherlands; 2 September 2011)

Biggest defeat
<\/STRONG>England Am. 12–2 Netherlands (Darlington, England; 21 December 1907)<\/P>

World Cup:<\/STRONG> Appearances: 10 (first in 1934)
Best result: Runners-up (1974, 1978, 2010)<\/P>

European Championship:<\/STRONG> Appearances: 10 (first in 1976)
Best result: Champions (1988)<\/P>

UEFA Nations League Finals:<\/STRONG> Appearances: 1 (first in 2019)
Best result: Runners-up (2019)

Most caps
<\/STRONG>Wesley Sneijder (134)<\/P>

Top scorer
<\/STRONG>Robin van Persie (50)<\/P>","411CCFA197052F93":"Netherlands","C0939111B6B9B2A43FCCB75CD7645021":"Netherlands","5D47EACB4D5E6DAA3CEC66553FE0120E":"","2134628892B06B90":"Netherlands","C403D9D9F071ACF5":"361","4406E48704A97D6900ACBB46602769C2":"815000000.00","2775A0F6CDE5FA9FEBFF51A9CD3C0BB9":"FC Barcelona,Netherlands,Everton F.C.,Southampton F.C.,Feyenoord,AZ Alkmaar,Valencia CF,PSV Eindhoven,SL Benfica,AFC Ajax,SBV Vitesse","8A2C437DD6BF07ECBF73DA968D3B75C4":"Ronald Koeman","9BA4801895A8DFD49438954196B52718":"Johan Cruyff Arena","8C36798E00E0D688B6705FB6F02CF010":"24","E0F6EEE10E22199909912E9167EBFDA2":"Netherlands","E6C7E9F1C9CF42CA43917444E7095BC4":"2023-1-1","FBAF2B9B8402EC60":"108175","63D5A09C1F729528628C60E02F0396E1":"

FIFA World Cup
<\/STRONG>Runner-up (3): 1974, 1978, 2010
Third place(1): 2014
Fourth place (1): 1998

UEFA European Championship
<\/STRONG>Winners (1): 1988
Third place\/Semi-Final (4): 1976, 1992, 2000, 2004

Olympic football tournament
<\/STRONG>Third place (3): 1908, 1912, 1920
Fourth Place (1): 1924<\/P>","B850B84A81F37F05F4386A810BC6107CF078F37712465C6A":"1889","60DC9D976694DF52":"1","4DFD3563356F21B8":"1","C08EDA0A226BF5BFC211B6FCDAE25C17":"ArenA Boulevard 1, 1101 AX Amsterdam","5A3E8B25A329ABB4785C62D37B63DE94":"

Ronald Koeman is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Netherlands national team. Koeman scored over 250 goals whilst playing in defence for the majority of his career. Koeman was capable of playing both as a defender and as a midfielder; he frequently played as a sweeper, although he was equally known for his goalscoring, long-range shooting, and accuracy from free kicks and penalties. Because of his goalscoring, he is considered one of the best attacking center backs of all time.

Born in Zaandam, Koeman began his career at Groningen before transferring to the Netherlands' most successful club Ajax in 1983, where they won the national Eredivisie title in 1984–85. He then joined Ajax's rivals PSV in 1986, winning three consecutive Eredivisie titles (1986–87, 1987–88 and 1988–89) and the European Cup in 1988. Ronald Koeman is one of five European players to ever win a treble with their club and a cup with their national team in the same year. The other four players are his teammates Hans van Breukelen, Berry van Aerle, Gerald Vanenburg and Wim Kieft. In 1989, Koeman moved to Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff's "Dream Team", helping the club win La Liga four years in a row between 1991 and 1994, and the 1991–92 European Cup, where he scored the winning goal of the final against Sampdoria.

At international level, Koeman was one of the stars of the Netherlands national team, alongside Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Dennis Bergkamp. During his career with the Netherlands, Koeman won UEFA Euro 1988 and played at the UEFA Euro 1992, 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, captaining the team at the latter.

In his managerial career, Koeman has won three Eredivisie titles: twice with Ajax (2001–02 and 2003–04) and once with PSV (2006–07). He is the only individual to have both played for and managed the "Big Three" of Dutch football: Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.[4] Abroad, he had spells in Portugal with Benfica and Spain with Valencia, coaching Los Ché to victory in the 2007–08 Copa del Rey, and managed Premier League clubs Southampton and Everton in the 2010s. He was the manager of the Netherlands national team between 2018 and 2020, finishing runners-up in the 2019 UEFA Nations League. In August 2020, he was appointed manager of Barcelona, with whom he won the 2020–21 Copa del Rey, but was sacked in October 2021, following a poor start to the new season. In 2023, he was reappointed as the manager of the Netherlands national team.<\/P>","7E5D3E774B9EC62B":"Amsterdam","94D0847B815EE9D1AA49123A5072B2C7":"

The Netherlands national football team has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905. The men's national team is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), the governing body for football in the Netherlands, which is a part of UEFA, under the jurisdiction of FIFA. Most of the Netherlands home matches are played at the Johan Cruyff Arena, De Kuip, Philips Stadion, and De Grolsch Veste.<\/P>

The team is colloquially referred to as Het Nederlands Elftal (The Dutch Eleven) or Oranje, after the House of Orange-Nassau and their distinctive orange jerseys. Informally the team, like the country itself, was referred to as Holland. The fan club is known as Het Oranje Legioen (The Orange Legion).

The Netherlands has competed in eleven FIFA World Cups, appearing in the final three times (in 1974, 1978 and 2010). They finished runners-up on all three occasions. They have also appeared in ten UEFA European Championships, winning the 1988 tournament in West Germany. Additionally, the team won a bronze medal at the Olympic football tournament in 1908, 1912 and 1920. The Netherlands has long-standing football rivalries with neighbours Belgium and Germany.

They were sometimes regarded as the greatest national team of the respective generations, and are often regarded as the best team that has never won the FIFA World Cup.<\/P>","E1D5C635E9B8B544CDBA4735F8E03DC0":"","66B628A331EE3B62":"25.79","E0A04148ADEEA21E":"http:\/\/www.knvb.nl","DE0C7E7350A48DF5A65F90F776C48D66":"FC Barcelona","e_index":9};