Marius Johan "Hans" Ooft (born 1947) is a Dutch former football player and manager who became the first foreigner to head the Japanese football team. Under Ooft, Japan won the Asian Championship for the first time in 1992 but was fired a year later for failing to qualify them for the 1994 World Cup in a crucial match against Iraq.

Managerial statistics

Honors

Manager

Japan

• AFC Asian Cup: 1992

• Dynasty Cup: 1992

• Afro-Asian Cup of Nations: 1993

Urawa Red Diamonds

• J.League Cup: 2003

Individual

• Japan Football Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2013

References

External links

• Japan Football Hall of Fame at Japan Football Association