Jo Bonfrère
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| Full name | Johannes-Franciscus Bonfrére | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 15 June 1946 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Eijsden, Limburg, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1963–1985 | MVV | 335 | (50) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1983 | MVV | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | MVV | |||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | Verbroedering Geel | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | Nigeria Women | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Verbroedering Geel | |||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Nigeria | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Qatar | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Al-Wahda | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Nigeria | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Al-Wahda | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | United Arab Emirates | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Al-Ahly | |||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | South Korea | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | Dalian Shide | |||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Al-Wahda | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Henan Jianye | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Johannes-Franciscus "Jo" Bonfrére (born 15 June 1946) is a Dutch football coach and former midfielder, who spent his playing career with MVV Maastricht. In a long coaching career Bonfrére managed several teams in Africa and Asia. He guided Nigeria to their victory in the 1996 Olympic Games.
Playing career
Between 1963 and 1985 Bonfrére scored 50 goals in 335 league appearances for MVV Maastricht, his only club.[1]
Coaching career
Nigeria
Bonfrére led Nigeria national football team to the 1996 Summer Olympics gold medal in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] He was the coach of Al-Ahly in Egypt in 2002/03 where he lost the league at the very last match with a difference of two points. His contract was terminated after that.
He also led Nigeria to the 2000 African Cup of Nations co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana. Bonfrére led the Nigerian team to the finals, where they lost to Cameroon by penalties.
Asia and South Korea
He was hired to coach the South Korea national football team in June 2004 to replace Humberto Coelho, who was forced to quit after a draw with the Maldives national football team in a FIFA World Cup qualification. The Dutch coach got off to a promising start by crushing a highly rated German squad of World Cup stars such as Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn, 3-1, with a young Korean team in a friendly match in December 2004. In 2005, South Korea qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup under him, but a string of disappointing losses thereafter fueled fan and media ire against Bonfrére.[3] He resigned on 23 August that year after poor results in the East Asian Football Championship and a World Cup qualifier loss against Saudi Arabia. Korea Football Association then hired Dick Advocaat as its third Dutch coach, and Advocaat angered his predecessor by saying he will be another Guus Hiddink, not Bonfrére.
Bonfrére joined former Chinese Super League champions Dalian Shide on a one-year contract in the 2007 league season. Despite the team finishing fifth in the league, they were never in contention to win the title and opted not to extend his contract. On 29 June 2011, another Chinese Super League club Henan Construction announced that Bonfrére would lead the team on a 1+1 contract and fight for staying in the Super League.
In February 2015, Bonfrère was added to the MVV youth team staff.[4]
References
- ^ "Jo Bonfrère" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ^ http://www.timmynaija.com/blog/2009/10/26/jo-bonfrere-want-a-come-back-nigeria/comment-page-1/
- ^ http://english.people.com.cn/200508/20/print20050820_203614.html
- ^ Jo Bonfrère en Johan Dijkstra sluiten aan bij technische staf MVV A1 - MVV Template:Nl
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- People from Eijsden-Margraten
- Dutch people of French descent
- Association football midfielders
- Dutch footballers
- Eredivisie players
- MVV Maastricht players
- Dutch football managers
- MVV Maastricht managers
- Nigeria national football team managers
- Qatar national football team managers
- Al Wahda FC managers
- United Arab Emirates national football team managers
- Al Ahly SC managers
- South Korea national football team managers
- Dalian Shide F.C. managers
- Henan Construction F.C. managers
- Dutch expatriates in Nigeria
- Dutch expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
- Dutch expatriates in South Korea
- Expatriate football managers in Belgium
- Expatriate football managers in Nigeria
- Expatriate football managers in Qatar
- Expatriate football managers in the United Arab Emirates
- Expatriate football managers in Egypt
- Expatriate football managers in South Korea
- Expatriate football managers in China
- 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup managers
- 2004 AFC Asian Cup managers
- Women's national association football team managers
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Nigeria
- 2000 African Cup of Nations managers