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Leonard Canjels (1 April 1933 – 26 May 2010) was a Dutch international footballer who played for NAC Breda.
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.
Canjels was nicknamed Het Kanon (the Gun) because of his powerful shooting.
= 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.
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. With Brugge he won the Belgian league title in 1973.
He retired from coaching in 1990.
He died on 26 May 2010 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 1 June 2008) (in Dutch)
Leo Canjels at WorldFootball.net
Biography at Club Brugge K.V. official site at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 December 2010) (in French)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cercle Brugge K.S.V.
- Leo Canjels
- Eredivisie
- NAC Breda
- MVV Maastricht
- List of Dutch football champions
- Breda
- K.V. Mechelen
- Cercle Brugge K.S.V.
- List of Eredivisie top scorers
- Deaths in May 2010
