Dutch ex-footballer and coach Wim Jansen dies at 76.
This was reported by the press service of the Scottish "
Jansen spent almost his entire career as a player in the Dutch " He also played for Washington and Ajax.. As for Celtic, Jansen won the Scottish Championship as a manager in 1998 with him, preventing the Rangers from taking the tenth title in a row, lifted the League Cup over his head with the Celts and brought Henrik Larsson to the club.
In addition, Jansen played 65 matches for the Netherlands national team, in which he twice became the silver medalist of the World Championships (1974, 1978) and the bronze medalist of Euro 1976.
After the end of his playing career, Jansen, in addition to Celtic, was the coach of Feyenoord, the Belgian Lokeren and Hiroshima, and also worked in the coaching staff of the Saudi Arabia national team.
Last fall, he released an autobiography in which he admitted that he was suffering from an incurable disease - dementia..