Dr Jo Venglos RIP

[Legion]

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/doctor-who-when-trailblazer-jozef-venglos-baffled-aston-villa-and-english-football

[OCD]

When you consider the culture clash at Arsenal when Arsene Wenger arrived, with how well established they were as a football club, you would imagine that the appointment was ahead of it's time. A few years too many unfortunately.

[CT]

RIP Dr Jo. Will always remember those European nights, home and away, very fondly.

They were good days.

[Richard E]

It probably didn’t help that to be honest we had overachieved in the final season of Graham Taylor’s first stint.

[Brend'Watkins]

Seemed a decent man. One of Ellis’s more daring experiments which sadly didn’t come off.
 I thought he was at least in his 70’s when he became our manager. He looked really old, maybe it was just an Eastern bloc look after years of communism.

[TopDeck113]

Doug ahead of his time or realising that in the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain, there were Eastern Europeans who could be hired on the cheap? I know where my money would be.

Dr Jo is one of the great Villa what might of beens.  I was sad when it didn't work out, but, then again, the fact that it didn't ushered in three and half years of BFR, much of which I wouldn't have missed for the world. 

RIP

[Londonvilla]

When I think about Dr Jo I remember his first game and Kent Nielsen goal v Inter was fantastic I was in the holte end  and the noise was off the chart......great days

[manic-road]

I remember when he was appointed and everyone said who? A decent man who had a good career as a coach.

[The Edge]

RIP Dr Jo.You left us with some great memories. It seemed at the time to be a really exciting direction that the club were going in and we were going to mop up all the young talent from around Europe.

[eamonn]

The first Villa manager I remember as a kid. Vague memories of him being ridiculed at the time but as has been said, Villa were a first-mover when it came to adopting a broader horizon with regards to modern coaching. I wonder did Wenger ever lean on him for advice. Would also be interested if Jo had given any interviews in recent times about his spell at Villa.

[Legion]

Ahead of his time.

[andyh]

I remember Doug introducing him at the press conference and asking the reporters if anyone knew who he was.
I remember going to the Makita pre season tournament at Wembley, hoping for a new dawn with a foreign manager.

He was a forward thinking appointment by Doug that blazed a trail but didn’t work out for us.
Jo seemed a very decent and honourable man.

Another Holte Ender in the Sky.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

That Inter Milan game is one of my favourite games I’ve ever attended, great memories.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Speaking when he was 80.

"I learned a lot," said Venglos, who still follows the results of the team. "I watch Aston Villa. I feel joy when things go well for the club."

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1008271/sports

RIP

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

That's lovely to read that.

RIP Dr Jo and thanks for what you managed to for us. X