Leo Beenhakker, Dutch soccer great who coached Real Madrid and two World Cup teams, dies at 82
'Beenhakker was a coaching icon and a truly unique figure at Ajax,' the storied Amsterdam club said in a statement announcing his death late Thursday. The cause of death was not given.
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