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Full name
  
Marius Johan Ooft

1976
  
Netherlands Youth

Place of birth
  
Netherlands

Name
  
Hans Ooft


Years
  
Team

Role
  
Football player

1964-1970
  
Feijenoord

Playing position
  
Forward

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Date of birth
  
(1947-06-27) June 27, 1947 (age 68)

Marius Johan ("Hans") Ooft is a Dutch former football player and manager who became the first foreigner to head the Japanese football team. Under Ooft, Japan won the Asian Championship for the first time in 1992 but was fired a year later for failing to qualify them for the World Cup in a crucial match against Iraq.

Honors

  • AFC Asian Cup Champions - 1992; Japan
  • J. League Cup Champions - 2003; Urawa Red Diamonds
  • Hot Breath League Champions- Hindu 2K11
  • References

    Hans Ooft Wikipedia