Danny Blind

Danny Blind is one of those figures whose name carries real weight inside the game even if casual fans miss it. A Dutch defender born in 1961, he anchored Sparta Rotterdam, then Ajax, then the national team, and the detail that grabs me is that he and Arnold Muhren are the only two Dutchmen to win every UEFA club competition. That is a quiet, almost obsessive kind of greatness. He then crossed over into coaching Ajax and the Netherlands, which always tells me a player understood the game intellectually, not just physically. At 176 cm he wasn't a towering stopper, so the achievements lean on reading and timing. I respect that.

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Name (English)

Danny Blind

Name (Japanese)

ダニー・ブリント

Reading

だにー・ぶりんと

Born

August 1, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Oost-Souburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Blind
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434702

Tags

• Zeeland
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.