Name: Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels



Country: Netherlands
Club: AFC Ajax
Position: *CF, SS
Side: RF/BS
Age: 22-27 years (09/02/1928)

Height: 186 cm
Weight: 83 kg

Attack: 87
Defence: 36
Balance: 88
Stamina: 77
Top Speed: 79
Acceleration: 76
Response: 87
Agility: 72
Dribble Accuracy: 73
Dribble Speed: 70
Short Pass Accuracy: 72
Short Pass Speed: 70
Long Pass Accuracy: 67
Long Pass Speed: 69
Shot Accuracy: 85
Shot Power: 85
Shot Technique: 81
Free Kick Accuracy: 68
Curling: 66
Header: 93
Jump: 82
Technique: 75
Aggression: 92
Mentality: 87
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 75

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 5
Growth Type: Early Peak

CARDS:
P15 Goal Poacher
P21 Fox in the Box
S01 Reaction

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Positioning - Scoring - Lines - Reaction - Post Player

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO

Rinus Michels (actually Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels) was a Dutch football player and coach. The proponents of Total Football, the Dutch national team in 1974 Vice-World Champion and won her the 1988 European Championship. As manager of Ajax he won the Dutch championship, the Dutch Cup and the European Champions Cup. With Barcelona he was Spanish league and cup double, with the first FC Köln German Cup. In 1999, he was nominated the Fifa "Coach of the Century". His most famous nickname was The General. He got through his authoritarian style and hard training, the personal distance, which he held to the players always like the fact that he was tactically and strategically a visionary who initiated many of the later developments football. Michels began his football career in 1940, shortly after the invasion of Germany to the Netherlands for Ajax. In 1946 he first played in the A team. In this game, he celebrated with five goals scored an impressive debut By 1958, he scored as aerially dominant striker 121 goals in 269 games for the club. [Note: other sources 120 goals count in 257 games] and won him the title in the years 1947 and 1957. He also played five times for the national team of the Netherlands. After his playing days, he studied sports science in Amsterdam at the Academie van Lichamelijke Opvoeding and had also trained as a masseur and physiotherapist. In 1999 he was awarded the prize as the FIFA Coach of the Century. Michels died after heart surgery in Aalst, Belgium.