Erik ten Hag is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on February 2, 1970 in Haaksbergen, Netherlands. Erik ten Hag (born 2 February 1970) is a Dutch professional football manager and former defender currently the manager of Eredivisie team Ajax.
He was the head coach of Bayern Munich II from 6 June 2013 to June 2015, after which he was succeeded by the team’s Heiko. The final game he played during his time as Bayern Munich II head coach was a 1-0 defeat to Nurnberg II on 22 May 2015.
On 21 December 2017, he was appointed as the head coach of Ajax after the club dismissed Marcel Keizer. In 2019, he led his Ajax team to the semi-finals of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League for the first time since 1997, by winning against holding champions Real Madrid 4–1 in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium at the round of 16 stage , and also beating Juventus away 1–2 having drawn the first leg 1–1 at home in the quarterfinals. In the first leg of the semifinal, he led his team to take a 1–0 lead against Tottenham Hotspur in the recently completed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. However in the second leg, a second half hat-trick by Lucas Moura for Tottenham Hotspur, with the last goal being scored in the 96th minute to make it 3–2 (3–3 on aggregate) to win on away goals, ended Ajax’s hopes of playing in the final.
He won his first managerial trophy with Ajax on 5 May 2019, the 2018–19 KNVB Cup, beating Willem II in the final. Only 10 days after winning the cup, Ajax, led by Ten Hag won the Eredivisie as well after a 1–4 away victory over De Graafschap and brought the double back to the club.
In 2012 Ten Hag was appointed in 2012 as the head of Go Ahead Eagles in the Eerste Divisie by Marc Overmars who was also an owner of the club.
