Leonard Canjels (1 April 1933 – 26 May 2010) was a Dutch international footballer who played for NAC Breda.
Playing career
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]
Managerial career
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.
References
- ^ Afscheid van Esso-held Leo Canjels - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
- ^ NAC-icoon Leo Canjels overleden - Omroep Brabant (in Dutch)
- ^ Intl career stats - EUFootball
- ^ Profile Archived 20 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine - Club Brugge
- ^ Brugse kampioenencoach Leo Canjels overleden - Nieuwsblad (in Dutch)
- ^ Leo Canjels (77) overleden - NOS (in Dutch)
External links
- Leo Canjels at National-Football-Teams.com
- Player profile at Voetbal International (in Dutch)
- Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 June 2008) (in Dutch)
- Leo Canjels at WorldFootball.net
- Biography at Club Brugge K.V. official site at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 December 2010) (in French)
