Aad de Mos (born 27 March 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch football coach, currently managing Eredivisie club Sparta Rotterdam. De Mos has coached teams in his home country, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Greece, as well managing the United Arab Emirates national team. De Mos won the 1988 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as manager of KV Mechelen.
De Mos began his management career at Ajax. He replaced Kurt Linder as 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 the national championship twice and the cup once.
After leaving Ajax, de Mos became coach of KV Mechelen in Belgium. Here he won the national title, cup and, in 1988, the European Cup Winners' Cup, beating his former club Ajax 1–0 in the final. He left to become RSC Anderlecht manager, where he again reached the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1990, this time losing to Sampdoria in Gothenburg.
In 1993, after his successful stints with KV Mechelen and Anderlecht, he signed as manager of PSV faced with the task with cleaning up an aging team. In his first season PSV placed third in the league. In his second season, despite some major purchases, he did not perform well. In September 1994, de Mos positioned the centre forward Erik Meijer, known for being able to make good headers, for incomprehensible reasons as a back against Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON (Dutch pronunciation: [luˈwi vɑn ˈɣaːɫ]; born 8 August 1951 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich. Before his career as coach van Gaal played as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp, Telstar, Sparta Rotterdam and AZ. Van Gaal is also a fully qualified gymnastics teacher, and has worked as such at high-schools during various stages of his career as a semi-professional football-player.
After a brief spell as coach at AZ, Van Gaal served as assistant coach under Leo Beenhakker at Ajax, and eventually took over as head coach in 1991. Under his lead, the club won three league titles, the UEFA Cup, and the Champions League. Van Gaal moved to Barcelona in 1997 and won two Spanish league titles and one Spanish Cup. After some disagreements at Barcelona, he was appointed coach of the Dutch national team, but then failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup. Another brief spell at Barcelona followed, before he became manager of AZ. After having won the Dutch championship with AZ in 2008–09, he was hired by Bayern Munich on 1 July 2009. In his first season at Munich, he secured the German league title and won the German Cup, and made it to the final of the Champions League.
Hans Kraay, Jr. (born 22 December 1959) is a Dutch former professional footballer turned coach.
Kraay, Jr. was born in Utrecht on 22 December 1959, the son of fellow footballer Hans Kraay.
Kraay played professionally in the Netherlands for AZ, SBV Excelsior, HFC Haarlem, NAC Breda, RKC Waalwijk, Helmond Sport, FC Eindhoven, De Graafschap, FC Dordrecht, Telstar and FC Den Bosch, in the North American Soccer League for the Edmonton Drillers and the San Jose Earthquakes, in England for Brighton & Hove Albion, and in Belgium for Sint-Niklase.
Kraay is currently active as commentator and football pundit, most notably in the RTL football show Voetbal International, associated to the homonymous football weekly magazine. He also served as head coach of Dutch amateurs FC Lienden from 2004 to 2011, leading the club from Tweede Klasse to Topklasse and making it nationally known within Dutch football.
On November 2011 he was appointed head coach of Topklasse club SVZW. One month later, it was revealed his appointment head coach of JVC Cuijk, effective from July 2012.
Hans Kraay (born 14 October 1936) is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a defender and then in football management and television.
Born in Utrecht, Kraay made his professional debut at DOS and also played for Feijenoord.
After his playing career, Kraay became manager at DFC, USV Elinkwijk, Go Ahead Eagles, Ajax Amsterdam, AZ'67, Edmonton Drillers, Sparta Rotterdam (only two days due to some health trouble), FC Den Haag and Feyenoord Rotterdam. He also served Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven as a technical director, as well as the NOS and other television channels with his views on football, both commentary and analysis. In 1986, he took place at PSV Eindhoven, as manager. The team was first in the League, but in March, 1987, he was replaced by Guus Hiddink, after a loss against FC Den Bosch, on penalties, for the KNVB Cup.
His son Hans Kraay, Jr. is also a retired professional footballer and television announcer.
Currently Kraay is working for N.E.C. Nijmegen as head of scouting and personal adviser of chairman Marcel Boekhoorn.
Jerry Murrien de Jong (born 29 August 1964 in Paramaribo, Suriname) is a retired Dutch footballer.
He played as a defender or defensive midfielder, and played for seven different clubs (one in France) during a seventeen-year professional career, including PSV Eindhoven.
De Jong started off his career in the second division, where he played for Telstar and SC Heerenveen. He earned a reputation as a tough tackler, and his performances did not go unnoticed by top flight clubs, as he joined first division giants PSV Eindhoven in the summer of 1989.
At Eindhoven, de Jong's career never really picked up, due to the stiff competition for a starting line-up berth. After having played only 51 matches (two goals) in five years, including a short loan spell at FC Groningen, he was eventually let go. However, during his time at PSV, he capped three times for the Netherlands, making his debut on 21 November 1990 against Greece, in a UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying match; his last match was on 17 April 1991 against Finland, for the same competition.
At times when it's snowin'
At times when the wind is blowin'
At times when the night is still
At times when the moon has climbed the hill
I can feel you close to me
But when I reach I find you gone
My world is make believe
At times when it's sunny
At times I can hear you call me honey
At times when the sun is overhead
Or at times when I'm cryin' in my bed
I can feel you close to me
But when I reach I find you gone
My world is make believe
At times I can hear you callin'
In the fallin' of the rain
At times in a rainbow
I can see you and hear you
Call my name
At times I can take it
At times I think I'm gonna make it
Oh, at times when I'm feelin' blue
I pretend the angels didn't send for you
And I can feel you close to me
But when I reach I find you gone
My world is make believe