- Ştefan Kovács
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playername= Ştefan Kovács
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dateofbirth = 2 October 1920
cityofbirth =Timişoara
countryofbirth =Romania
dateofdeath = death date and age|df=yes|1995|5|12|1920|10|2
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position = Manager
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clubs =CFR Cluj
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manageryears = 1956-1957 1967-1970
1971-1973
1973-1975
1976-1980
1982-1983
1986-1987
managerclubs = Universitatea ClujSteaua Bucuresti Ajax France RomaniaPanathinaikos AS Monaco FC Ştefan Kovács (Hungarian: Kovács István, also known in Romanian as Ştefan Covaci), (2 October 1920 in
Timişoara ,Romania - 12 May 1995), is with 15 major titles one of the most successfulassociation football coaches in the history of the game. This ethnic Hungarian fromRomania will be foremost remembered for his outstanding successes with Ajax Amsterdam in the early 1970s.Career
Ştefan Kovács had his first major coaching successes at the helm of
Steaua Bucuresti , where he won between 1967 and 1971 once the championship and three times the cup of Romania.After this he succeeded
Rinus Michels at the head of Ajax in 1971, continuing and expanding on his "total football " philosophy. With Ajax he achieved 1972 and 1973 two consecutiveEuropean Champions Cup s. In 1972 he even won the Intercontinental Cup and also the first edition of European Supercup (1973). Further to that he led Ajax to the double of cup and championship in 1972 and another national championship in 1973.After he left Ajax in 1973, he was called up by the French football federation to take the reins of the national side. In this position he did not leave any lasting impression.
After this episode he returned to Romania becoming its national team coach. Later he had further successes with
Panathinaikos andAS Monaco , with which he won the national cup competitions in 1982 and 1987, respectively.External links
* [http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=71854 weltfussball]
* [http://www.fff.fr/servfff/historique/selectionneur.php?id=KOVACS Profile on French federation site]
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