Tragedies that, along with football, unite Ten Hag with Twente

He Manchester United It begins this Wednesday in the 2024-25 Europa League and will do so against a team where the Old Trafford coach, the Twenty. For football (he played for that club in three seasons) and for tragedies.

As the BBC explained, Ten Hags will always lead to Twentiethe in his heart, for all the good things he experienced as well as the tragedies. When technician now United He played on that team, one of his teammates died in a plane crash and another player, a year later, in a traffic accident. AND Ten Hags is the captain of Twenty when an explosion at a fireworks store in Enschede caused 23 deaths. All this is marked, always according to said medium, as it is Ten Hags at present. The former Ajax coach’s three spells in the first team Twenty as a player they were: 1989-90, 1992-94 and 1996-2002.

Andy Scharmin He was the captain of the Netherlands Under-21 team when, along with 16 other players, he was killed in a plane crash while traveling for a friendly in Suriname. In total 176 people died. Charminwho was seen as a future Dutch soccer star, was a friend of Ten Hagsthey played together in the lower category of Twentythey are the same age, from the same town, Haaksbergen. The technical tip of United He spoke about the pain that his loss caused him.

In 1990, Tom Krommendijk23 years old, signed for Twenty from Feyenoord and after the first game of the season he lost control of his car while driving home and died. Ten Hags has left the Twenty (he would return in 1992) but the club was still united.

As the BBC reported, in May 2000, when Have a Hag, after leaving for Waalwijk in 1984, he returned in 1996 for his last stage before retirement, an explosion in Enschede, the city of Twentycaused 23 deaths, 950 injuries and the Roombeek neighborhood had to be rebuilt. Ten Hags He was the captain of Twenty and a year later, he led them to win the Dutch Cup, the club’s first trophy in 24 years.

retired, Ten Hagstowards his technical stage, Steve McClaren (which led to Twenty and what is England coach between 2006 and 2007) he was allowed to attend the first two months of training. And it can be said Ten Hags contributed to the shaping of modern Twente.