Joel's coaching career

In June 2004, Warwick denied the report that Joel would be the assistant coach of the Premier League Tottenham, but a few days later, he was hired as the assistant coach of the new manager of Tottenham, jacques santini. Santigny resigned after teaching 13 games, and Joel was confirmed to take his place on June 8th, 2004. In his first season in charge, he improved the team's performance in the league and abandoned the defensive formation advocated by Santigny. After winning five games in a row, he achieved the best trend since the 1992/93 season, which made him the "Premier League coach of the month". There are even rumors that he will take the vacant coaching throne of Ajax, a Dutch powerhouse, but Joel denied this rumor. Under Joel's leadership, Tottenham ranked ninth in the league and drew with Blackburn Rovers in Shakirk, only two points away from the UEFA Cup. In August 2005, Joel signed a new three-year contract with Tottenham Hotspur.

Before the 2005/06 season, Tottenham participated in the Peace Cup held in South Korea as a warm-up match. The participating teams include Lyon, PSV Eindhoven and Royal Society Boca Juniors. In the group stage, Tottenham beat Boca Juniors by 1 with the same score and goal difference to enter the final. In the final, Lyon and Robbie Keane scored twice, and the other side gave 1 own goal. Although Tottenham were eliminated early in two local cup competitions, they never dropped six places in the league and were in the top four for six months. Until the league day, it still beat Arsenal, the arch-rival of North London, by 1, ranking fourth, and the place in the European Champions Cup seemed to be as secure as Mount Tai. However, the guests in the closing match infected West Ham's players in the first half with Norovirus. Although he asked for an extension, it was not accepted, and the result was 1-. Meanwhile, Arsenal beat Wigan Athletic 4-2 at home, so Tottenham only finished fifth and qualified for the UEFA Cup. This is the first time that Tottenham won the FA Cup by ranking in the league since 1990 England was allowed to resume participating in European competitions. This season, the team only conceded 38 goals in 38 league matches, which is the least since 197 1.

Before the 2006/07 season, Tottenham Hotspur bought Berbatov from Leverkusen for10.60 billion euros, but in the first half of the season, the team performed repeatedly, and the only highlight was to break the spell and beat Chelsea in the league for the first time since10.990. Until mid-February 2007, Tottenham remained in the lower half of the league table and was eliminated by Arsenal in the semi-final of the English League Cup. It is rumored that the management is not satisfied with Joel's coaching performance. However, the team successfully turned the corner after beating Fulham 4-0 in the fifth round of the FA Cup. In the remaining 12 league games, only 1 game was lost, accumulating 27 points. In the end, he won the fifth place for two consecutive seasons and won the UEFA Cup ticket again. This is the first coach since Keith Shaw Kim to lead the team into Europe for two consecutive seasons. Tottenham Hotspur also advanced to the UEFA Cup and FA Cup1/quarter finals, losing to the final champions Seville and Chelsea.

After winning the fifth place for two consecutive seasons, Tottenham Hotspur is bent on breaking the monopoly of the Big Four. Before the 2007/08 season, it spent more than 40 million pounds to bring in new players, including darren bent, who voted for the club's record-breaking 654.38+65 million pounds. However, it is said that Damien Comoli, the football director, is in charge of buying and selling players in the club, with Joel as the head coach. Regarding the suggestion of selling star striker Berbatov, Joel insisted that he would rather die than sell. With heavy expectations, after Tottenham lost to Sunderland and Everton in the first two games of this season, club secretary john alexander and director Paul Kensley were photographed secretly meeting Seville coach Ramos in a Spanish hotel. Ramos later said that Tottenham had made a "dizzying offer" to invite him to coach, but Tottenham Chairman Daniel Levy denied it. This incident gradually damaged Joel's position and the team's performance continued to be sluggish. 2007125 October, after losing to Getafe in the UEFA Cup group match, he was finally dismissed by the club. Joel admitted that his nephew received a text message telling him that he first learned of his dismissal. On June 5438- 10, 2007, Joel refused the invitation of Birmingham City to take over the vacant head coach position, but it is reported that he is still interested in returning to the Premier League to coach a team that is not one of the "Big Four".

hamburg

In the 2008/09 season, Joel moved to Germany to coach Hamburg, a traditional German team, and led the team to the top of the league once. At the end of the season, it even went to the "three consecutive championships". But both the UEFA Cup and the German Cup were defeated by Werder Bremen in the semi-finals. Among them, the German Cup home 1- 1 draw, overtime 1 loss. However, the first leg of the FA Cup was 1-0, and the second leg was 2-3. With the preferential goal of the visiting team, it won the championship 3-3 again, and the league finally ended the season with the fifth place.

Ajax

On May 26th, 2009, Joel and Hamburg terminated their contract in advance and switched to Ajax, a declining Dutch powerhouse. He said that he had been overseas for many years, and his level was very high. He returned to his motherland to teach. On May 28th, the contract was formally signed for three years. Player: Holland Cup winner in The Hague:1974–75;

Coach: Rhoda Dutch Cup champion:1996–97; Tottenham Peace Cup champion: 2005;