Wiel Coerver
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 3 December 1924 | ||
Place of birth | Kerkrade, Netherlands | ||
Date of death | 22 April 2011 | (aged 86)||
Place of death | Kerkrade, Netherlands | ||
Managerial career | |||
Years | Team | ||
1959–1965 | S.V.N. | ||
1965–1966 | Rapid JC | ||
1966–1969 | Sparta | ||
1970–1973 | N.E.C. | ||
1973–1975 | Feyenoord | ||
1975–1976 | Indonesia | ||
1976–1977 | Go Ahead Eagles |
Wiel Coerver (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋil ˈkur.vər]; 3 December 1924 – 22 April 2011) was an association football manager from the Netherlands and the developer of the Coerver Method, a football coaching technique. He won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973–1974 season.[1]
Coerver, who was born in Kerkrade, Limburg, was nicknamed “the Albert Einstein of Football”. He died in Kerkrade.
Coerver Method
The Coerver Method is a football coaching technique which Coerver created. By analysing videotapes of various great players including Pelé, he devised a new concept in football which advocates that skill could not only be inherent with the young players but could also be passed on in a comprehensive academic way. Under this technique, players progress in a structured manner, pyramidal, from basics of ball mastery to a tactically driven group attack. They would be exposed to the other essentials like Receiving and Passing, Moves (1v1), Speed and Lethal Finishing.[2]
The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France saw the first Coerver student, Boudewijn Zenden who played for the Netherlands national football team, make it to the FIFA World Cup.
See also
References
- ^ Feyenoord mourn former coach Wiel Coerver by Berend Scholten on UEFA.com, 22 April 2011
- ^ Tamis, Theo (22 April 2011). "Dutch soccer guru Wiel Coerver dies (86)". Radio Nederlands Worldwide. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
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- 1924 births
- 2011 deaths
- Dutch football managers
- Dutch footballers
- Eredivisie managers
- Feyenoord managers
- Go Ahead Eagles managers
- NEC Nijmegen managers
- Roda JC managers
- Sparta Rotterdam managers
- UEFA Cup winning managers
- Indonesia national football team managers
- Expatriate football managers in Indonesia
- Sportspeople from Kerkrade