Career
In a long coaching career Bonfrére managed several teams in Africa and Asia. He guided Nigeria to their victory in the 1996 Olympic Games. Between 1963 and 1985 Bonfrére scored 50 goals in 335 league appearances for MVV Maastricht, his only club
Nigeria
He was the coach of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahly in Egypt in 2002/03 where he lost the league at the very last match with a difference of two points.
His contract was terminated after that. He also led Nigeria to the 2000 African Cup of Nations co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana.
Bonfrére led the Nigerian team to the finals, where they lost to Cameroon by penalties. Asia and South of Korea
He was hired to coach the South of Korea national football team in June 2004 to replace Humberto Coelho, who was forced to quit after a draw with the Maldives national football team in a Fédération internationale de football association World Cup qualification.
The Dutch coach got off to a promising start by crushing a highly rated German squad of World Cup stars such as Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn, 3-1, with a young Korean team in a friendly match in December 2004.
In 2005, South of Korea qualified for the 2006 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup under him, but a string of disappointing losses thereafter fueled fan and media ire against Bonfrére. He resigned on 23 August that year after poor results in the East Asian Football Championship and a World Cup qualifier loss against Saudi Arabia. of Korea Football Association then hired Dick Advocaat as its third Dutch coach, and Advocaat angered his predecessor by saying he will be another Guus Hiddink, not Bonfrére.
Bonfrére joined former Chinese Super League champions Dalian Shide on a one-year contract in the 2007 league season.
On 29 June 2011, another Chinese Super League club Henan Construction F.C. announced that Bonfrére would lead the team on a 1+1 contract and fight for staying in the Super League.
