Henk ten Cate

Quick Facts

Full Name	Henk ten Cate
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Dec 9, 1954(1954-12-09)
Age	70
Birthplace	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Holland
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Henk ten Cate Biography

Henk ten Cate is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on December 9, 1954 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. Henk Ten Cate (Dutch pronunciation, [‘heNGk 10 ‘ka.t@]) is a former professional football player and Dutch football manager who was most recently the head coach at Al-Ittihad in the Saudi Professional League.

Ten Cate was a professional player and later became an assistant manager at Fritz Korbach’s Go Ahead Eagles. He played in the Eerste Divisie. Ten Cate became the manager of Korbach’s SC Heerenveen team in February 1990. He won the period title, earning an Eerste Divisie team a place at the end-of-the season’s promotion playoffs. These play-offs saw Go Ahead Eagles place equal to Korbach’s SC Heerenveen. However, Heerenveen was promoted to the Eredivisie based on goal difference.

In the 1997–98 winter break Ten Cate switched to manage Vitesse Arnhem, which he led to their best Eredivisie ranking in their history, a third position with records in both the number of points won as the number of scored goals. After a disappointing start in the following season he left Vitesse and led KFC Uerdingen 05 until March 1999 without success. In the 1999–00 season he managed Hungarian side MTK Hungária FC to win the Hungarian Cup and a runners- up place in the PNB League. He returned to the Netherlands and became manager of NAC Breda which he led until 2003 earning them a spot in the UEFA Cup for the 2003–04 season.

In June 2003, Ajax gave him an offer as a manager, however, he decided to join Frank Rijkaard at FC Barcelona and became his assistant manager because Frank Rijkaard had the lack of experience as a top manager at that time. Thus, Frank Rijkaard believed that Ten Cate was able to compensate for his weak points as a manager. Rijkaard explained that “I was a motivator, Henk [ten Cate] was a strategist for the team”. Indeed, Ten Cate was responsible for strategies and tactics of FC Barcelona during its training sessions. Together they managed Barça to a Champions League Trophy and two La Liga titles. In 2006, he replaced Danny Blind as a manager at Ajax, where he won the Johan Cruijff- schaal in 2006 and 2007 and the KNVB Cup in 2007. Ajax finished equal on points with PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie in 2006, only to be denied the championship by a single goal in goal difference.

Ten Cate quit Go Ahead Eagles to return to SC Heracles, where he was the assistant manager of Henk van Brüssel. Ten Cate was appointed the first manager of SC Heracles after Van Brussel became ill in November 1990. He was then told that his contract would not be renewed. He returned to FC Rheden, the amateur club that started his football career. He managed them for a year.

Henk ten Cate Net Worth

Henk ten Cate is one of the richest Association Football Player from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Henk ten Cate 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ten Cate began his football career with FC Rheden, before signing his first professional contract with Go Ahead Eagles. In the 1979-80 season, he made his Eredivisie debut and scored four goals. These performances earned him a transfer from Eredivisie to the NASL side Edmonton Drillers, Canada.

He returned to Go Ahead Eagles after the North American season and continued his Eredivisie campaign. However, he became unsure about his position and was sent to Telstar’s Eerste Divisie side Telstar as a loan player. He returned to Deventer after the Telstar season and was a regular on Go Ahead Eagles’ first team for three more seasons. He switched to SC Heracles in 1985 and ended his professional playing career.

In 1993, Go Ahead Eagles appointed Ten Cate yet again as their manager, this time to replace Jan Versleijen who left the club to manage De Graafschap. In his first year, he did well, but when Go Ahead Eagles was at the bottom of the Eerste Divisie during the winter break of the 1994–95 season he was fired. Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam offered him a contract and he led the team to a sixth position in the Eredivisie in 1996, they also reached the final of the KNVB Cup that year, which was lost to PSV Eindhoven 5–2.

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On 13 June 2008, Ten Cate signed a two-year deal with a Greek Superleague team, Panathinaikos FC. Ten Cate gave the following statement on his appointment:

Facts & Trivia

Henk Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Henk ten Cate celebrates birthday on December 9 of every year.

Following the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final, Ten Cate expressed his disappointment with Didier Drogba for his sending-off (if Drogba had not been sent off, he would have taken the fifth penalty). Drogba’s expulsion led to John Terry taking Chelsea’s fifth penalty, which he failed to convert as he slipped on the rain-soaked turf. Had he scored, Chelsea would have secured their first Champions League Title.

Top Facts about Henk ten Cate

1. Henk ten Cate is a retired Dutch soccer player.
2. He played for Ajax Amsterdam and won multiple titles.
3. Ten Cate coached several clubs in the Netherlands, Greece, and UAE.
4. He was an assistant coach at Barcelona during their Champions League win in 2006.
5. In 2017, he led Al-Jazira to the final of the FIFA Club World Cup.
6. Ten Cate has also managed the national teams of Qatar and United Arab Emirates.
7. He is known for his attacking style of play and tactical flexibility.
8. Ten Cate has won numerous domestic league titles as a manager.
9. He was named Coach of the Year in both Greece and UAE.
10. Ten Cate is highly respected in the soccer world for his knowledge and experience.