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Jan Wouters
Dutch footballer (born 1960)
Jan Jacobus Wouters (born 17 July 1960) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player. He played as a defensive midfielder and was Dutch Footballer of the Year in 1990.
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| Full name | Jan Jacobus Wouters | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1960-07-17) 17 July 1960 (age 63) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980–1986 | Utrecht | 168 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Ajax | 150 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Bayern Munich | 66 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | PSV | 52 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 434 | (55) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1994[1] | Netherlands | 70 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Utrecht (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Utrecht (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Ajax (youth) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2006 | Rangers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | PSV (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | PSV (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | PSV (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Utrecht (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Utrecht | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Kasımpaşa (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Feyenoord (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Fortuna Sittard (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022-present | Ajax youth (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Wouters played for several clubs including PSV, Utrecht, Bayern Munich and Ajax. He was also a Netherlands international team member (70 caps, four goals) and was hugely influential in 1988 when the Netherlands won the European Football Championship.
He was a coach of Scottish Premier League club Rangers under Dick Advocaat and then Alex McLeish. He left Rangers at the end of the 2005–06 season, along with McLeish and Andy Watson.
Wouters is infamous to England supporters after elbowing Paul Gascoigne and fracturing his cheekbone during a World Cup qualifier in 1993 at Wembley Stadium. Gascoigne was forced to wear a Phantom of the Opera style facemask to protect his fractured cheekbone until his injury healed. The following day, the Daily Mirror labelled Wouters a "Dutch thug". The match was drawn 2–2 and damaged England's hopes of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States, despite England leading the match 2–0.
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Utrecht | 1980–81 | Eredivisie | 19 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1981–82 | 33 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1982–83 | 27 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1983–84 | 31 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1984–85 | 25 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1985–86 | 33 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Total | 168 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Ajax | 1986–87 | Eredivisie | 32 | 4 | ||||||||
| 1987–88 | 28 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1988–89 | 22 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1989–90 | 28 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1990–91 | 30 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1991–92 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 150 | 19 | ||||||||||
| Bayern Munich | 1991–92 | Bundesliga | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| 1992–93 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 35 | 4 | |||
| 1993–94 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | 4 | 0 | 24 | 2 | |||
| Total | 68 | 6 | ||||||||||
| PSV | 1993–94 | Eredivisie | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| 1994–95 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 25 | 1 | |||
| 1995–96 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | 27 | 3 | |||
| Total | 52 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 63 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 438 | 51 | ||||||||||
Utrecht
Ajax
Bayern Munich[3]
PSV
Netherlands
Individual
- Dutch Footballer of the Year: 1989–90
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1988[4]
- kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1992–93[5]
Wouters was repeatedly referenced in a Saturday Night Live sketch on 4 February 2023 featuring James Austin Johnson as a British rapper named Milly Pounds.[6]
- Stokkermans, Karel (16 January 2009). "Jan Wouters - International Appearances". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- "Jan WOUTERS". Retrieved 21 November 2008.
- "Jan Wouters" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- "UEFA 1988 Team of the Tournament". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- "Bundesliga Historie 1992/93" (in German). kicker.
- Weekend Update ft. Michael Longfellow, James Austin Johnson and Devon Walker - SNL, retrieved 6 February 2023
- profile Jan Wouters (in Dutch)
- Jan Wouters at Wereld van Oranje (archived) (in Dutch)