'Fitness and recovery coach' Laszlo Jambor to leave Ajax after 14 seasons
28 May: Season's end is traditionally a moment of goodbyes.
After the game against SC Heerenveen the ArenA crowd will get
to say goodbye to players such as Richard Witschge and Aron
Winter, as well as chairman Michael van Praag, but also to a
man who served as Ajax's 'fitness, rehabilitation and stamina
coach' for no less than fourteen seasons: Laszlo Jambor, who
will join his former Ajax colleague Gerard van der Lem in
Saudi-Arabia, to become the finess coach of the Saudi-Arabian
national team on 01 July.
Laszlo Jambor started his sports career as a professional
basketball player in his native country of Hungary. Injuries
forced him to quit his player career, after which he coached
several basketball teams on the highest level in Hungary. He
also worked as a gymnastics teacher at a Budapest highschool
and at the Physical Education & Sport Science Institute of
Budapest's Szemmelweiss University, before he moved to Holland
as a basketball coach of Dutch side BV Hoofddorp.
The man to surprisingly add Jambor to the Ajax coaching
staff as a fitness coach was Leo Beenhakker, Ajax's head-coach
at the time, in 1989. For fourteen years Laszlo Jambor designed
training schedules for all Ajax teams, from the F-youth to the
first team, to improve the fitness, stamina, pace,
co-ordination and physical power of the players. He also
designed training schedules for players recovering from
injuries.
As a member of the Ajax technical staff Laszlo Jambor
witnessed the winning of six Dutch championships, four Dutch
cups, four Dutch Super Cups, the UEFA Cup, the Champions
League, the European Super Cup as well as the World Cup for
club teams. He served under head-coaches Leo Beenhakker, Louis
van Gaal, Morten Olsen, Hans Westerhof, Co Adriaanse and Ronald
Koeman.
In a special farewell letter Jambor wrote to all of his Ajax
colleagues and the supporters: "I can say with great
satisfaction that few coaches have had such a fantastic time in
football as me (...) It find it very hard to say goodbye and
Ajax will always have a very special place in my heart."
Immediately after the 29 May home game against SC Heerenveen
in the Amsterdam ArenA Ajax will officially say goodbye to
Laszlo Jambor, as well as to departing players Richard
Witschge, Aron Winter, Joey Didulica, Davide Mendes da Silva
and Henk Timmer and chairman Michael van Praag, who will step
back officially on 01 July, making way for his successor John
Jaakke. (MP)
Source: Ajax.nl
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