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Leonard "Leo" Canjels (1 April 1933 – 26 May 2010) was a Dutch international footballer who played for NAC Breda.

Leo Canjels

Canjels in 1973
Personal information
Full name	Leonard Canjels
Date of birth	(1933-04-01)1 April 1933
Place of birth	Breda, Netherlands
Date of death	26 May 2010(2010-05-26) (aged 77)
Place of death	Breda, Netherlands
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1955–1956	Baronie
1956–1963	NAC	149	(114)
National team
1959	Netherlands	3	(2)
Teams managed
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

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 May 26, 2010[6] after a long illness.

References

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 June 1, 2008) (in Dutch)
• Leo Canjels at WorldFootball.net
• Biography at Club Brugge K.V. official site at the Wayback Machine (archived December 24, 2010) (in French)

На других языках

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- [en] Leo Canjels

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[fr] Leo Canjels

Leonard Canjels, dit Leo Canjels, est un footballeur néerlandais et entraîneur, né le 1er avril 1933 à Bréda (Pays-Bas)[1] et mort le 26 mai 2010[2] à Bréda.

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[it] Leo Canjels

Leo Canjels (Breda, 1º aprile 1933 – Breda, 26 maggio 2010) è stato un calciatore olandese, di ruolo attaccante.

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[ru] Каньелс, Лео

Лео Каньелс (нидерл. Leo Canjels; родился 1 апреля 1933, Бреда — 26 мая 2010, Бреда) — нидерландский футболист и тренер, главный тренер бельгийского «Брюгге» (1971—1973).

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