After Barcelona lost 1-0 to Rayo Vallecano in the 11th round of La Liga, head coach Ronald Koeman was immediately dismissed by the club. Koeman ended his agonizing 14-month journey at Barca before finally waving goodbye to the club he once loved. Unlike the Barca manager who was previously dismissed, Koeman is the worst of these people, but has not been widely criticized and criticized. Because everyone knows under what circumstances he took over the team, in the more than a year that he has coached the team, what kind of changes have Barça experienced, and how far away is Barça from the peak of the current period? All of this is the basis for Koeman to gain the understanding and support of the majority.
In fact, the Dutch national team does not want him to leave his coaching position, it is with his enthusiasm and gratitude to Barcelona that he is willing to take over this team when many people reject Barca and resolutely take over this team when Barca is in a boundless trough, even at his own expense. Such sentiment deserves the respect of every Barca fan in any case. In the face of barca's feelings, Coman did not weigh personal gains and losses, did not worry about his future, and did not consider the risk of failure. Even if he knew he was just a transitional manager, and even if he was most likely going to have to carry the pot, he still came.
This is Koeman, although he does not smile, although he does not have a distinct personality, but his love for Barcelona is vividly reflected in his every move. Even if he is now out of class, he has never regretted his original choice.
The story of Koeman and Barca is probably the most precious memory of his life.
In the 1992 European Champions Cup final, Barcelona played against Sampdoria from Italy. Barca, which has never touched the Champions League before, do not need to dwell too much on their desire for such a championship trophy.
But this final, like many finals in history, the two sides played very conservatively and cautiously, after all, the final has no name since ancient times. No one wants their own rashness to cause the team to fall behind in such an important battle.
After a glued first half, the 0-0 score remained until halfway through the second half. But it was at this time that Barcelona took the lead in the turnaround, and Barca won a free kick from 25 meters away. Sampdoria's defensive skills were extremely sophisticated, leaving Barca with little attacking threat, so the free-kick was seen as a perfect opportunity for Barca to take the lead. Everyone knows the importance of this free kick, which will most likely determine the ultimate ownership of the Champions League winner. Then the person who takes the ball must have not only excellent skill, but also have a big heart.
At that time, Barca had Stoichkov, the top free-kick master, but it was another, more rugged tough guy who finally completed the shot, only to see him calmly get up on his feet, and the ball flew towards the goal like a cannonball, giving Barcelona a 1:0 lead! In the final moments of the game, Sampdoria continued to create threats, but they were all defused by Barca. In this way, Barcelona won the first Champions League trophy in history. For the centenary giants, this is definitely a milestone moment, the club's most glorious moment since its inception.
The man who scored the only goal for Barca is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the team, he is Barca's core defender and Ronald Koeman, who is also the leader of the captain. It was his third year of playing at Barca and he had brought supreme glory to the club.
In 1989, Koeman came to Spain from the Netherlands and joined Barcelona. Here he not only became the backbone of the team's defense, but also remembered for scoring goals. During his five years at Barca, he made 192 appearances and scored 67 goals. Despite being a defender, Cocoman has shown exceptional offensive ability and strong mental attributes. So later he became the captain and soul of Barca.
Barça at that time was already one of the best clubs in the world, but it had never won the Champions League. Koeman's goal not only fulfilled Barca, but also made himself the first to help two different clubs, Ajax and Barcelona, both win the Champions League.
Ronald Koeman was born on March 21, 1963 in Zaandam, the Netherlands. Koeman's football career began with a family background, and his father was also a footballer. The elder Coman had high hopes for his son from an early age and personally guided him in training, which was very strict. In Koeman's father's mind, his son was destined from birth to dedicate his life to football, and he was destined to live on the green field.
When Koeman was 16 years old, his father sent him to play in a second division team called Grorinjean. There, Koeman received more systematic training. At the age of 17, he made his professional debut in the professional league, starting his career at FC Grolingen and slowly growing up.
1982 was the defining year of Koeman's football career. In the same year he moved to Ajax and became a player for the top Dutch giants. In his days at Ajax, Koeman was excellent and successful, a player admired by the whole Dutch football scene. In 1985 and 1986, Ajax won the Dutch Cup twice. In 1986 he moved to Eindhoven and won the Dutch First Division in 1987, 1988 and 1989 and the Dutch Cup in 1988 and 1989. More importantly, Koeman won the European Cup with Eindhoven in 1988, the greatest achievement of his career at that time. In those two years, he himself was twice named the best athlete in the Netherlands. During his three years at Eindhoven, he scored 51 goals in 94 games as a defender, a goal count and rate that can put many strikers to shame.
Koeman's technical attributes are a bit similar to what we call "knife defenders" today, with super offensive ability, tall stature, and strong propulsion ability. Koeman is strong, physically energetic, well-conscious, timely, calm in handling dangerous balls, and forming a good tacit understanding with other teammates, which is a huge barrier in the team's backline. Of course, he also has shortcomings, he is not fast, sometimes a little clumsy, but from the perspective of reading the game, interspersed with the awareness of running, and extremely strong offensive ability, he is undoubtedly one of the best defenders in the world after Beckenbauer. In particular, the power of his free kicks was unparalleled in the past, and it was the first in the world.
In 1983, Coeman put on the orange jersey of the national team for the first time and participated in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. At the 1988 European Football Championship, Koeman won the European Championship with the Dutch team, which was the highest point of his national team honor and the highest point of the honor of the entire Dutch national team.
In 1994, after losing his peak, Koeman returned to the Netherlands from Spain and continued to shine in his hometown. He joined Fayenoord and won the 1995 Dutch FA Cup with him. After three years with Feyenoord, Koeman was in
In 1997, at the age of 34, he chose to retire.
When it comes to Dutch football, the first thing that comes to mind is often a generation of arrogant Cruyff and the three musketeers who created the Milanese dynasty. However, in the Dutch team that created its second glory in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ronald Koeman was a figure who was known as the Four Kings alongside the Three Musketeers.
However, compared to his companions Gullit, Rijkaard and Van Basten, he was not as famous. This is because Serie A and Milan were the center of European football at the time, and the Three Swordsmen naturally received several times more attention than Koeman. But What Koeman has accomplished for Barca and the Eredivisie's top three is still a distant dream for most players.
After retiring from the military, Koeman became a head coach and continued his career in football. In January 2000, Koeman became head coach of Wetters in the Dutch League. In December 2001, Koeman was officially appointed manager of Eredivisie powerhouse Ajax and led the team to the 2002, 2004 Eredivisie and 2002 Dutch Cups. After losing to Auxerre in the UEFA Cup in 2005, Coman left Ajax.
On 8 June 2005, Coman succeeded Trapattoni as Manager of Benfica in the Portuguese Premier League and led the team to the Portuguese Super Cup. In May 2006, coman submitted his resignation to Benfica as the team finished third in the Portuguese Premier League. He took over Eindhoven's coaching whip that summer and led the team to win last season's Eredivisie title. He became head coach of Valencia in Spain in November 2007 and was expelled from Valencia in April 2008 due to poor coaching results.
In 2014, Koeman became head coach of Premier League side Southampton F.C. In 2016, Koeman was appointed head coach by Everton F.C. On 23 October 2017, Everton FC announced the official dismissal of coach Koeman. On 6 February 2018, Koeman became manager of the Dutch national team.
On 19 August 2020, FC Barcelona officially announced Ronald Koeman as manager. Koeman finally returned to his beloved Barça and fulfilled his dream of returning to Barca, but unfortunately he had nothing to achieve but to bring Barca a Copa del Rey. This season, Barca have performed very badly in the league and in the Champions League, which has become the root cause of Koeman's dismissal. Barca's problem is by no means Koeman's alone, but he needs to take all the blame.
Coman, who scored the first Champions League title for Barca, may not have imagined that 29 years later, he would be besieged by Barca fans outside the Camp Nou stadium after the end of the national derby. It turned out that everything could not go back.