Hans Ooft, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hans Ooft

Dutch association football player

Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.