Jack Reynolds (footballer born 1881)

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Jack Reynolds
Personal information
Full name	John Reynolds
Date of birth	23 September 1881(1881-09-23)
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Date of death	8 November 1962 (aged 81)
Place of death	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Playing position	Winger
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1902 1903 1904–1905 1905–1906	Manchester City Burton United Grimsby Town Sheffield Wednesday Watford New Brompton Rochdale	00 (0) 32 (3) 29 (3) 02 (0)
Teams managed
1912–1914 1915–1925 1919 1925–1928 1928–1940 1945–1947	St. Gallen Ajax Amsterdam Netherlands Blauw Wit Ajax Amsterdam Ajax Amsterdam
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John "Jack" Reynolds (23 September 1881 in Manchester, England – 8 November 1962 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) was an English football manager and player. He was the manager of Ajax Amsterdam from 1915-1925, 1928-1940, and 1945-1947. He was one of the pioneers of the Total Football system of playing and is considered to be among the best managers the team has had. He was also the manager of the Swiss side St. Gallen.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 2.1 F.C. St. Gallen 2.2 Ajax Amsterdam 2.3 Netherlands national football team 3 Personal life 4 Honours 4.1 Ajax Amsterdam 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Reynolds was not highly regarded as a player and played for several clubs without much success, the high point being a season in the Second Division with Grimsby Town in 1904-05.

[edit] Managerial career

[edit] F.C. St. Gallen

Reynolds started his career as a coach with St. Gallen in 1912, but after a two year stay he left to become coach of the German national football team. The outbreak of World War I prevented that, and he moved to the Netherlands instead.

[edit] Ajax Amsterdam

In 1915, Reynolds started his 27 year association with Ajax, during which he pioneered the Total Football system of playing and started the highly successful Ajax youth system. During his three spells with the club they won the Eredivisie (the Dutch top division) 8 times and the KNVB Cup (Dutch FA cup) once; Ajax had not won either prize before. After Reynolds retired in 1947, he lived in Amsterdam until his death in 1962. Three years later in 1965 a stand at the De Meer Stadion was named after him.

[edit] Netherlands national football team

In 1919, Reynolds became the first manager to coach the Netherlands since the suspension of international football due to World War I. He assumed the honours for the match against Sweden on 9 June 1919. The Dutch won the match 3–1. After this match, the Royal Netherlands Football Association appointed Fred Warburton as the coach of the national team.

[edit] Personal life

When the Nazis invaded The Netherlands in 1940 during World War II, Reynolds was interned in Tost (now Toszek) in Upper Silesia (now in Poland), along with other foreign nationals including P. G. Wodehouse.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Ajax Amsterdam

• Eredivisie: 8
  

1918, 1919, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947

• KNVB Cup: 1
  

1917

[edit] References

• Kuper, Simon (2003). Ajax, the Dutch, the War. Orion Books. ISBN 0-7528-4274-9. 
• Lamming, Douglas (1985). A Who's Who of Grimsby Town AFC 1890-1985. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-34-2. 

[edit] External links

• El Bombín - Jack Reynolds, The Founder Of The ‘Ajax-Style’
• Ajax USA - 1915 - 1949: The Jack Reynolds Era
• electronicfishcake.com - The Jack Reynolds Story

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