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Steve Clarke - Assistant first team coach

Henk ten Cate


Henk ten Cate is best known for being part of the Barcelona setup that won
the 2006 Champions League, but he has a rich coaching history that dates
back as far as 1988.


Chelsea is the 52-year-old's first English club, having already had
coaching spells in Germany and Hungary as well as Spain and his native
Holland.


His most recent post was as first team coach at Dutch giants Ajax, whom he
joined from Barcelona at the start of the 2006/7 season.


At the Amsterdam ArenA, Ten Cate led his side to 2nd in the Eredivisie,
losing out on the title on goal difference, by just one goal, to rivals
PSV Eindhoven. In that season, Ajax scored 85 goals in their 34 league
games, losing just five all season.


In Catalonia, Henk achievements alongside manager Frank Rijkaard are well
known. Arriving at the Nou Camp with his countryman Rijkaard in 2003, he
set about revitalising a flagging Barcelona, culminating in the Champions
League success of 2006. They had knocked Chelsea out along the way, and
the style with which that side played clearly captured Chelsea's
attentions.


On the field, Barca were inspired by the form of Ronaldinho, with whom
Henk is credited with getting the best out of during his spell at the Nou
Camp.


As a player, Ten Cate was a winger in the Marc Overmars or Arjen Robben
mould, capable of playing on either wing, but never at the highest level.
In just over 200 games, he scored 34 goals, the majority for Go Ahead
Eagles, as well as loan spells at NASL side Edmonton Drillers and Telstar.
He finished his playing career in 1986 with Heracles.


By 1988 Henk had returned to Go Ahead as assistant and then manager,
repeating this sequence in 1990 when he rejoined Heracles, before moving
on to amateur side FC Rheden where he had previously been a player.


After just one season with Rheden, he returned to Go Ahead, before taking
over at Sparta Rotterdam for two years, and then Vitesse Arnhem in 1997.


After a season there, Henk moved to Germany with Uerdingen, and then spent
a year in Hungary with MTK Hungaria, before three years with NAC Breda,
where he caught the attention of Rijkaard, and was invited to join him at
Barcelona.