Leo Canjels
Dutch footballer and manager From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Leonard Canjels (1 April 1933 – 26 May 2010) was a Dutch international footballer who played for NAC Breda.
 Canjels in 1973 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leonard Canjels | ||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1933 | ||
| Place of birth | Breda, Netherlands | ||
| Date of death | 26 May 2010 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Breda, Netherlands | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1955–1956 | Baronie | ||
| 1956–1963 | NAC | 149 | (114) |
| International career | |||
| 1959 | Netherlands | 3 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1968–1971 | NAC | ||
| 1971–1973 | Club Brugge | ||
| 1973–1975 | MVV | ||
| 1975–1977 | Patro Eisden | ||
| 1977–1979 | Beringen | ||
| 1979–1982 | Cercle Brugge | ||
| 1982–1985 | KV Mechelen | ||
| 1985–1987 | Eendracht Aalst | ||
| 1987–1989 | Patro Eisden | ||
| 1989–1990 | FC Boom | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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Club
Canjels started playing football at Breda side VV Baronie. He made his debut for NAC in the 1956/1957 season and played seven years for the club before retiring. As a NAC Breda player, Canjels twice won the Eredivisie top goalscorers award, in 1958 and 1959.[1]
Canjels was nicknamed Het Kanon (the Gun) because of his powerful shooting.[2]
International
Canjels made his debut for the Netherlands in a May 1959 friendly match against Turkey and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring 2 goals. He won his other caps in friendlies against Bulgaria and Scotland in the same year.[3]
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After retiring as a player, Canjels became a coach, first at amateur sides Dongen and Baronie and later managed NAC Breda, as well as Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge among others in Belgium.[4] With Brugge he won the Belgian league title in 1973.[5]
He retired from coaching in 1990.
He died on 26 May 2010[6] after a long illness.
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