Stevens, always very harsh on his players and himself – Voetbal International

wanted to be a head coach Huub Stevens Germany Less than a year ago. Cardiac arrhythmias were Wednesday an abrupt end to his coaching career.

Stevens had just with VfB Stuttgart for the second season as a crisis manager maintained in the Bundesliga when Stevens himself in his last days as a trainer once openly pronounced on the wish he had. “A job with a national team, I think certainly attractive,” said the then 61 year old Dutchman in conversation with the NIS, in which he had put his sights on a country like Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

On the Dutch national team he thought for a moment. “I have to be honest with myself. My way of thinking does not fit with the Dutch school, he realized too. Yet Stevens had his idiosyncratic philosophy certainly success domestically. Roda JC was the early 90′s his first job as head coach, where the miners son the reins immediately tighter quoted. Hands during a party game in training? Ten push-ups. Discipline was the key to his fighting squad, which garnered a point which normally accounts for a league title. Were it not for Ajax performed extraterrestrial in 1995.

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Stevens turned this century to go back to Roda JC and PSV, where both adventure ended prematurely. Most fame he still amassed as a trainer in Germany, even though he had trips to Red Bull Salzburg and PAOK Saloniki. Stevens, who self as unyielding defender to eighteen appearances for Orange kicked off the Bundesliga seemed like a glove. And vice versa. Yet there were also mixed feelings about employment with our eastern neighbors. A German debt, after all, had a car accident in which his father was killed. Stevens was seventeen and since then harbored resentment against Germans.

Still, spent his first employment at Schalke him immediately the absolute highlight in a turbulent career as a coach. Stevens not only demanded the maximum from his players, but also of himself. The Dutch Youri Mulder, Johan de Kock and Marco van Hoogdalem in his selection he won the UEFA Cup in 1997 with the club from Gelsenkirchen. And four years later he was with Schalke until three minutes of extra time of the final day virtual champion of Germany until Patrik Anderson still gave the title with a free kick Bayern Munich in an away match with Hamburger SV.

Manager Rudi Assauer (right) lights a fat cigar as coach Huub Stevens him and Schalke 04 has brought the UEFA Cup in 1997. Stevens was in 1999 named Coach of the Century.

With its raw character Stevens eventually won more titles with 1. FC Köln (Second Bundesliga) and Red Bull Salzburg (Austrian champion), but he emerged this century, mainly ultimate crisis manager in the Bundesliga. HSV, Schalke and Stuttgart were twice under his impulse from the lower regions launched in the ranking of the Bundesliga. He himself was a little surprised when 1899 Hoffenheim in October knocked at him, but his statistics proved really that he is the right person was to guide the number seventeen in the Bundesliga in safe harbor.

Although the Stevens impact in his first few months has not translated into points, the club said still confidence in the Knurrer aus Kerkrade . Great was the shock when Stevens suddenly announced the news himself to leave, something that surely no flight has given the poor results. “The fight that I should make in Germany, I did not lose,” he was referring to his biography on the death of his father. In retrospect she felt only at Hertha BSC Stevens more had to get out, which in 2003 also took him as his job.

His last club Stuttgart praised him for his peace, sovereignty and authority. The outside world bids farewell to a coach of a dying breed. With its pure, unpolished character everyone always knew where he stood. With occasional heartfelt curse. Stevens will for that latter certainly not have taken action after he had been told that he could not finish his job at Hoffenheim because of health reasons.

Trainer Career Huub Stevens

Club	Date	Key performance
PSV	1986-93 (youth) and 2008-09	Johan Cruijff Shield
Roda JC Kerkrade	1993- 96 and 2005-07	Second place Eredivisie
Schalke 04 (Germany)	1996-2002 and 2011-12	UEFA Cup twice DFB Pokal
Hertha Berlin (Ger)	2002-03
1. FC Köln (Germany)	2004-05	Champion Second Bundesliga
Hamburger SV (Germany)	2007-08	Enforcement in the Bundesliga
Red Bull Salzburg (Oos)	2009-11	Champion of Austria
PAOK Salonika (Gre)	2012-13
VfB Stuttgart (Ger)	2014 and 2014-15	Twice enforcement in the Bundesliga
1899 Hoffenheim (Germany)	2015-16