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Rijkaard arrives

AFP, Madrid
Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard will look back on this season with a mixture of satisfaction and relief once the immediate euphoria of winning the Spanish league title on Saturday has subsided.
Satisfaction, because the Catalan club has ended a six-year barren streak that stretched back to when they were last Spanish champions in 1999.
"Winning your domestic championship is a product of all your hard work over the length of a season. It proves that everything and everyone has been working consistently well," said the dread-locked Dutchman.
Into the bargain, Rijkaard ensured that Barca kept a resurgent Real Madrid at bay despite their eternal rivals' big improvement over the second half of the season after the arrival of their new coach Wanderley Luxemburgo in December.
However, there will also be considerable relief in the Rijkaard household because winning the championship finally confirms the former Milan and Ajax player's coaching credentials.
Many pundits had spoken of the 42 year-old former Dutch international's qualities as a tactician and strategist but, until Saturday, he had no silverware to show for the kind words.
Two years at the helm of the Dutch national side saw him take the men of Orange to the semi-finals of Euro 2000, despite repeated dressing room turmoil, but they were ousted from the tournament on home turf after a penalty shoot-out against Italy.
Rijkaard resigned immediately after the defeat.
"My ambition was to win this championship. We have not done so, so I have no other choice than to go," said a glum Rijkaard, in the wake of his departure.
He then went into club management for a season with struggling Sparta Rotterdam but had been out of the game for a year before new Barca president Joan Laporta came calling in the summer of 2003.
The Barcelona lawyer, only a year older than Rijkaard, was looking for a young face and attitude, but
neverthless someone who was prestigious name, that fitted his new philosophy.
Laporta must have had his doubts he had made the right decision as Barca slumped to 12th after the first 18 games of last season and they were slated to finish in the bottom half of the Spanish first division for the first time in more than 50 years.
However, Laporta didn't react like so many Spanish club presidents would have done.
Rather than firing Rijkaard, he gambled and backed his man to the hilt, a risk that paid off.
Rijkaard finally got his players to respond to his ideas and they embarked on a 17-game unbeaten run which saw them rise to second place by the end of last season.
Last summer, he used Laporta's cheque book to sign, among others, Cameroon international striker Samuel Eto'o from Real Mallorca, Portuguese international Deco from Champions League winners Porto, and French international midfielder
Ludovic Guily from Monaco.
As plenty of coaches have found before, buying talented players is one thing but handling a collection of rampant egos is quite another, but the unassuming Rijkaard has proved himself to be a master of this particular skill.
"My aim is to create a team spirit so that every player feels he is contributing to the team's success. Then everybody is happy.
"Ever player is different but whether someone is a 'star' or not is something the public creates, not the player.
"I can guarantee you that wherever our players have come from, they would look around the dressing room and know that whatever success they achieved personally was dependent on the other guys," commented Rijkaard in a recent interview with the respected magazine World Soccer.
Now, after his first title in Spain, the ever-elegant Rijkaard looks dressed for more success as a coach.