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Former Ajax star is dead: football world mourns - Finally, he made another mega transfer

2020-02-18T10:03:06.594Z


One of the stars of Dutch football is dead. In the 1970s, Barry Hulshoff caused a sensation with Ajax Amsterdam. Even a national player mourns.


One of the stars of Dutch football is dead. In the 1970s, Barry Hulshoff caused a sensation with Ajax Amsterdam. Even a national player mourns.

  • Barry Hulshoff was part of the “golden era” of Ajax Amsterdam in the 1970s.
  • He later also worked as a trainer and consultant for Juve star Matthijs de Ligt .
  • Now the Dutchman died at the age of 73 .

Dutch record champion Ajax Amsterdam mourns the loss of Barry Hulshoff : the former star of the legendary era in the 1970s died after a short illness at the age of 73. The defender is a former national player of the Netherlands (14 games) and was part of the golden generation with which Ajax Amsterdam, under coaching legend Rinus Michelsin, caused a sensation across Europe.

Ajax Amsterdam in the 70s: Numerous titles with pre-stop Hulshoff

Barry Hulshoff played for the top club and last year's semi-finalists in the Champions League from 1966 to 1977. Overall, the late pre-stop played no less than 385 championship games for the club. Hulshoff won seven national titles with Amsterdam, and he also celebrated numerous triumphs with Ajax on the European stage: he was part of the team that won the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1971 , 1972 and 1973 - and also the World Cup in 1972 .

Later - due to an injury - prevented World Cup participant from 1974 from leading the sporting fortunes of his heart club: In 1988/89, after the sudden withdrawal of star coach Johan Cruyff, he was briefly interim coach at Ajax Amsterdam (club portrait at tz.de *) and sat in Final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against KV Mechelen (0: 1) on the coaching bench. At the Belgian club, Hulshoff was to lead sporting skills himself many years later.

Ajax Amsterdam: Barry Hulshoff forced change of Matthijs de Ligt

In addition, even after retiring from the coaching position, Hulshoff remained loyal to the football business - as a player's advisor : he was instrumental in one of the most sensational transfers of the past summer - the transfer from international Matthijs de Ligt * from Ajax Amsterdam to Juventus Turin . The 20-year-old shooting star said goodbye to his confidante in a moving statement:

Check out this post on Instagram

Barry, ik ben onwijs thank you know dat ik jou heb leren. Ever Mij altijd geholpen as mentor, zaakwaarnemer maar vooral as best vriend. The dagen en uren dat wij samen over voetbal could praten en laughter zullen with the altijd bij blijven. I need the greatest inspiration. Ik zal je miss bar!

A post shared by Matthijs de Ligt (@mdeligt_) on Feb 17, 2020 at 10:13 PST

Most recently, there was speculation about a return campaign by star player de Ligt, who was also in discussion with Bayern Munich .

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* tz.de is an offer from the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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