Cor Van Der Hart - Coaching Career

Coaching Career

After his playing career he became a football manager and started in 1966 at Holland Sport. He also managed AZ '67, Standard Liège, Fortuna Sittard, Fort Lauderdale Strikers, FC Amsterdam, MVV, FC Den Haag, FC Volendam, Telstar, WAC Casablanca, the Ajax youth academy (1985 and following years) and Sariyerspor. In 1978 he finished 3rd with AZ'67 in the Dutch league and the Dutch Cup (KNVB-Cup) was won (Final AZ'67-Ajax 1-0). In 1973 was added to the staff of the Dutch national team as an assistant manager next to Frantisek Fadrhonc. During the 1974 FIFA World Cup he was the assistant of Rinus Michels when the Dutch national team lost the final to Germany.

In 1999 Van der Hart was wearing the orange shirt one more time, when he was part of the so called "Oranje of the Century team". Van der Hart died on 12 December 2006 at the age of 78. In the UEFA Cup 2006-07 Ajax played their match versus Zulte Waregem wearing black armbands in his memory.