Feyenoord sticks with coach despite big thrashing
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October 26, 2010, Tuesday
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FEYENOORD is sticking with coach Mario Been despite the team's 0-10 thrashing by PSV Eindhoven, technical director Leo Beenhakker said yesterday.
League leader PSV scored eight second half goals on Sunday to condemn Feyenoord to its worst defeat in club history and underscore how far the once-powerful Rotterdam club has fallen in recent years, amid crippling debt and the departure of experienced players.
Feyenoord now stands 15th in the 18-team Dutch Eredivisie with just two wins in 10 matches this season and is 16 points behind PSV.
Even so, Beenhakker insisted the club was unified in support of Been.
"Let me say on behalf of the entire Feyenoord leadership ... that for us there is no reason whatsoever to change our (coaching) staff," Beenhakker told a press conference.
Been made no comment to the media yesterday after saying in the aftermath of the defeat he would quit if his players and directors had lost faith in him.
Fans also appear to be standing by Been. Dozens of angry supporters gathered at Feyenoord's stadium on Sunday night as the players' bus returned. But they also chanted support for the coach.
Beenhakker called the defeat "a historic deep point" for Feyenoord.
"But it happened and you can't turn back the clock," he added.
Feyenoord has a proud history as one of the Netherlands big three clubs, along with PSV and bitter rival Ajax. The fallen Rotterdam giant has won the Dutch league 14 times, but its last title came in 1999. The club won the European Cup, predecessor of the Champions League, in 1970 and the UEFA Cup in 1974 and 2002.
League leader PSV scored eight second half goals on Sunday to condemn Feyenoord to its worst defeat in club history and underscore how far the once-powerful Rotterdam club has fallen in recent years, amid crippling debt and the departure of experienced players.
Feyenoord now stands 15th in the 18-team Dutch Eredivisie with just two wins in 10 matches this season and is 16 points behind PSV.
Even so, Beenhakker insisted the club was unified in support of Been.
"Let me say on behalf of the entire Feyenoord leadership ... that for us there is no reason whatsoever to change our (coaching) staff," Beenhakker told a press conference.
Been made no comment to the media yesterday after saying in the aftermath of the defeat he would quit if his players and directors had lost faith in him.
Fans also appear to be standing by Been. Dozens of angry supporters gathered at Feyenoord's stadium on Sunday night as the players' bus returned. But they also chanted support for the coach.
Beenhakker called the defeat "a historic deep point" for Feyenoord.
"But it happened and you can't turn back the clock," he added.
Feyenoord has a proud history as one of the Netherlands big three clubs, along with PSV and bitter rival Ajax. The fallen Rotterdam giant has won the Dutch league 14 times, but its last title came in 1999. The club won the European Cup, predecessor of the Champions League, in 1970 and the UEFA Cup in 1974 and 2002.
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