Martin Jol

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Playing career

Jol was born in The Hague, Netherlands. He began his playing career with an amateur team before joining ADO Den Haag in the local professional leagues. In 1973, he became a Den Haag employee. He was the 1975 Dutch Cup champion with the team beating FC Twente. He played in the Bundesliga from 1978 to 1979 before returning to the Dutch Emigre to play for Twente. He earned his first cap for the Netherlands national football team in October 1980 while at Twente. In 1981, Jol moved to England, joining West Bromwich Albion. In 1981–82, he appeared in the semi-finals of both domestic cup and international cup tournaments. He signed for Coventry City in 1984, but wanted to leave the club after manager Bobby Gould was asked to leave. Jol returned to Den Haag in 1985 and received the 1985 Dutch Footballer of the Year award in the Eerste Divisie league.

Jol obtained ten schoolboy caps, 20 'B' caps, 12 Under-21 caps, and 12 Under-23 caps on the international stage. He made three appearances for the senior team as well as competed at the 1980 Mundialito tournament in Uruguay.

Coaching career

Jol's teaching career began in 1991 when he took over at ADO Den Haag's amateur team and moved them to the top local amateur division in the region. Jol then joined SVV Scheveningen, the country's top local amateur team, where he won the national non-league championship. Jol served as a director with the young E JC from Kerkrade, where he won the Dutch Cup in 1997, Roda's first trophy in 30 years. Jol was president of the Dutch professional team RKC Waalwijk from 1998 to 2004. He started at the bottom of the table in November with only three points. In their first year, he saved them from relegation and was in contention for European football in the years after. He was honoured with the Dutch Football Writers Coach of the Year 2001 and the 2002 Dutch Players and Coach of the Year awards.

RKC Waalwijk denied claims that Jol was going to be the Tottenham Hotspur assistant manager in June 2004. Jol was fired by Tottenham's current coach, Jacques Santini, despite being recruited by Tottenham's sporting director Frank Arnesen several days later. Santini resigned from the manager's position after just 13 games, and Jol was announced as his replacement on October 8, 2004. Jol's first season as president, boosted their league esteem and scrapped Santini's defensive style of play. Tottenham's best run of form since the 1992-1993 season ended, and he was strongly linked in the media with his then-united managerial job at AFC Ajax of Amsterdam. Jol, on the other hand, had already ruled out moving clubs early. Following a final day draw at home to Blackburn Rovers, Jol led Tottenham Tottenham to the start of European qualification, but the season came to an end. Spurs were left out by two points on the UEFA Cup. In August 2005, he began a new three-year deal with Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham won the Peace Cup pre-season tournament, which featured players such as PSV, Olympique Lyonnais, Boca Juniors, and Lyon; Tottenham defeated Lyon in the final, kicking up for the 2005–06 season. Though Tottenham failed to qualify in both cup competitions at the first hurdle, the club never fell out of the top six spots in the league, and Tottenham remained fourth place, a UEFA Champions League spot. Tottenham's squad was downplayed by sickness and Spurs were defeated by West Ham United on the final day of the season, putting them out of Champions League qualification and finishing fifth. Nonetheless, Jol had led Tottenham Hotspur to their highest league finish since 1990, ensuring they qualified for the UEFA Cup via the league for the first time since the ban on English clubs playing in Europe was lifted in 1990. Tottenham conceded only 38 league goals this season, the fewest the club has conceded since 1971.

Jol beat Chelsea in the 2006–07 season, marking the first time the club has beaten them in the league since 1990. They were knocked out in the semi-finals by rivals Arsenal in the Football League Cup. Tottenham took 27 points from their final 12 league games, losing just once in a 4–0 FA Cup victory over Fulham. Spurs soared into fifth place, winning UEFA Cup qualification on the final day of the season, making Jol the first Spurs boss since Keith Burkinshaw to qualify for European football in successive seasons. Tottenham also reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup and FA Cup, losing to the eventual winners in both events.

Tottenham signed a number of high-end players in the summer of 2007. According to reports, some of these players were signed on the request of Director of Football Damien Comolli and that Jol was not allowed to choose players he wanted to buy, such as Martin Petrov. "I'd rather die" when Jol's suggestion of selling star striker Dimitar Berbatov arose, Jol said.

Spurs were projected to challenge for a top-four finish in the 2007–08 season, due to the large amount of money that had been spent. After Tottenham losing their first two games, however, Chelsea Secretary John Alexander and Director Paul Kemsley were photographed in a Spanish hotel with Sevilla FC boss Juande Ramos, who then said that Tottenham had given him a "dizzying bid" to become their manager, although Tottenham's chairman Daniel Levy denied it. Jol's position was jeopardized, and he was eventually fired by the Tottenham board on October 25, 2007, following their 2–1 loss to Getafe CF in the UEFA Cup. The sacking was widely broadcast around the streets long before Jol was aware of it. Jol confessed that he first became aware of the decision after his nephew told him of a text message announcing that Jol was supposed to leave the job.

In November 2007, Birmingham City declined to discuss their managerial vacancy, but Jol was announced at the time as keen to return to Premiership football to lead one of the club outside the top four.

Jol began coaching Hamburger SV in the 2008–09 season. Hamburg was ranked in fifth place in the league standings and ended up in fifth place, qualifying for the Europa League for the following season. Both Hamburg and the German League Cup were also lost against Werder Bremen in the semi-finals. It was the first time since the 1980s that Hamburg reached the semi-finals in both leagues.

Jol was to be the new head coach of AFC Ajax on May 26, 2009, the first coach to take over from Marco van Basten, who resigned at the end of the season. Jol expressed his joy in returning to his home country, and he officially signed a three-year contract on May 28.

The Ajax lost away to PSV and then drew with Sparta Rotterdam at home, a result that saw them fall to seventh place in the Economies after winning their first two games of the season. This was their only game, however, in which they lost points at home all season. They finished the season with the league's best defense and fewest league goals conceded by any Dutch team in five years, with just four conceding at home all season. Even more impressively, they scored 106 league goals, an average of more than three goals per game, the most any Dutch team has scored since the 1997–98 season. Ajax finished the season with a goal difference of +86. PSV, the team with the largest goal difference in the league, had only half of it, with +43.

Since winning their final 14 games of the season in January, Jol's side did not lose a single point. They finished with 85 points, a 17-point increase over the previous season, and a figure that might have been enough to win the league in just two seasons since 1995, when the Eligibility rules were changed to give three points rather than two. They were defeated by a single point by Steve McClaren's FC Twente, who won their first-ever Eivisie title.

Jol had some consolation for the season, winning the Dutch Cup for the first time since winning the same competition 13 years ago with Roda JC, winning the first two-leg final since 1983. Jol was the subject of Fulham's vain attempt to make him their new manager during the summer of 2010; Ajax refused to allow him to leave the club. For the first time since the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League, Jol led Ajax to the Champions League in the same month. After a one-point home draw to NEC Nijmegen that dropped the Amsterdam-based club in fourth place and a five-point distance from the top of the league after 17 games, Jol resigned as the head of Ajax with immediate effect on December 6, 2010. Under new boss Frank de Boer, Ajax will win the Elysian championship.

Following Mark Hughes' departure, Jol had agreed to a two-year deal to take up the vacant post at Fulham's Premier League team. He joined the club almost a year after losing to be their boss before Hughes' appointment. "I am delighted to join Fulham." "It's a club with solid foundations and a large fan base," he said. "I am looking forward to being part of the Fulham family and thank the chairman for the trust shown in me." Fulham's first game in charge of the team was the UEFA Europa League first leg against Faroese side NS Runavk on June 30, 2011. Fulham defeated Fulham 3–0. On August 13, 2012, Jol's first Premier League game in charge was held at home against Aston Villa, resulting in a 0–0 draw. He led them to ninth position in the Premier League in their first season with the club, earning 52 points, one point shy of Fulham's record points total count in the top division. During the season, they won over Arsenal, Newcastle United, and Liverpool, as well as a tense 2–2 draw against eventual league champions Manchester City. They also earned two strong draws against Chelsea in London, and defeated Queens Park Rangers first 6–0 at home and then 1–0 away, beating local rivals Queens Park Rangers first 6–0.

Jol had fallen out with striker Bobby Zamora during the first half of the season, according to a story. Zamora left Fulham to play for QPR and team up with former Fulham boss Mark Hughes. Fulham finished only 12 points and three places outside of Europa League qualification, making it a fruitful first season for the club.

Fulham finished 12th in the second season and Jol extended his deal until June 30th, 2014. Jol was fired as Fulham boss on December 1, 2013, the last of which was a 3–0 loss to West Ham in which Fulham failed to get a single shot on target.

Jol was named as the Egyptian Premier League's next coach on February 24th. Al-Ahly is a footballer from Egypt. Jol was suspended on August 19, 2016, following his poor results in the 2016 CAF Champions League competition. Ahly SC held a farewell party on August 20th to honor Jol and celebrate the premier league's achievement.

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