Ronald Koeman (born 21 March 1963) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is the current head coach of La Liga club FC Barcelona. Koeman is one of five European players to ever win a Treble with their club and a cup with their national team in the same year. During his career with Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord, he won three consecutive Eredivisie titles and the European Cup in 1988. At Barcelona, he was part of Johan Cruyff’s ‘Dream Team’ and helped the club win La Liga four years in a row between 1991 and 1994.
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Ronald Koeman (born 21 March 1963) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is the current head coach of La Liga club FC Barcelona. Koeman is one of five European players to ever win a Treble with their club and a cup with their national team in the same year. During his career with Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord, he won three consecutive Eredivisie titles and the European Cup in 1988. At Barcelona, he was part of Johan Cruyff’s ‘Dream Team’ and helped the club win La Liga four years in a row between 1991 and 1994. He was the manager of the Netherlands national team between 2018 and 2020. In August 2020, Koeman was appointed as the boss of Barcelona following the departure of Quique Setién. He has also had spells in Portugal with Benfica and Spain with Valencia, coaching Los Che to victory in the 2007–08 Copa del Rey, and managed Premier League clubs Southampton and Everton in the 2010s. He won UEFA Euro 1988 and played at the UEFA Euro 1992, 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, captaining the team at the latter. He made his debut at FC Groningen at the age of 17 years and 183 days in a 2–0 win over NEC in the EredIVisie. He became the third-youngest player in the club’s history, after Piet Wildschut and Bert de Voogt.
He also won the Dutch league title with Ajax in 1984–85 and the Dutch Cup with PSV in 1988–89. In his three seasons at PSV, he scored 51 goals in 98 league appearances, with the highest scoring season of his club career, with 21 goals in 1987–88. In 1989, he re-joined his former club Ajax, where he became a member of the famous “Dream Team” Koeman helped Barcelona win the La Liga title in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994, as well as the UEFA Champions League in 1994. In the summer of 1986, he controversially transferred to Eindhoven to play for Hans Kraay’s champions. He then won the 1987-88 and 1988-89 E Redivisies titles with Guus Hiddink’s PSV. He helped PSV win the KNVB Cup in 1989 and 1990, and the Champions League the following season. In 1991, he helped Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-0 in the final of the Copa Del Rey, beating the Spanish giants 2-1 on penalties in the shoot-out. In 1992, he became part of the Dream Team that won the UEFA European Cup with Barcelona against Sampdoria. In 1994, he captained the Dutch national team to victory at the Euro 1992 and 1990 World Cups. As a head coach, he is the only individual to have both played for and managed the \”Big Three\” of Dutch football: Ajax,PSV and Feyenoord.
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