Pieter Huistra
Pieter Egge Huistra ( born January 18, 1967 in Goënga ) is a Dutch former football player and current coach. He has played in the Eredivisie for FC Twente in the Belgian First Division for Lierse SK in the J. League for Sanfrecce Hiroshima and was with the Rangers from Glasgow five times Scottish champion. Eight times he came in the Dutch national team for use.
Club career
Huistra came from the youth of the Drachtster Boys, an amateur club from Drachten. At age 16, he went to FC Groningen. His professional debut was the Left Wing at the Green White in the 1984/85 season: September 5, 1984, the 17 -year-old against FC Volendam in the 60th minute came in to replace the ten years older than Anne Mulder. The young Friesian played here together with Adri van Tiggelen, Erwin Koeman and FC Groningen veteran Jan van Dijk. His first goal he scored on 3 November 1984. Huistra came on in the 84th minute and made as " Joker" the equalizer at 1-1 at AZ. But he could conquer a regular place and became the 1986/87 season on loan at newly promoted BV Veendam, Groningen while his teammate Anne Mulder and Harris Huizingh changed. Here he belonged beginning of the season to the root formation and scored five goals in 33 games this season. Nevertheless, the Veendamer had to return to the Eerste Divisie at the end of the season. Huistra should return to the Green White to Groningen now actually. However, he had the attention of Kees Rijvers, the former coach and now technical director of FC Twente, excited, brought him to Enschede.
Rijvers formed by goalkeeper Theo Snelders, Fred Rutten, Mika Lipponen and Theo ten Caat with the young Andy Scharmin and Huistra a team that - after a start to the season with one point from six games - at the end of the season reached the third place in the table. The FC Twente was the third force in the Eredivisie, behind Ajax and PSV; Huistra was on the left wing of one of the guarantors of success: in his three years at FC Twente was the club three times a third party; Huistra scored in 93 league games 17 goals, playing in the UEFA Cup and became a national player.
For the season 1990/91 he followed Snelders in the Scottish Premier League. Snelders played at FC Aberdeen; Huistra joined the Rangers from Glasgow. The club had become with coach Graeme Souness twice in a row champion; Huistras during the first season, he was replaced by Walter Smith. Huistra was a solid force in the team that went through a successful time: during his five years there, the Rangers five more times in a row champions were; Huistra played in the European Cup of Champions and the Champions League. The former Dutch international Wim Jansen, Manager of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, took Huistra 1995 to Japan in the J. League. In Hiroshima, he played until the end of the 1996 season he; in winter 1996/97 he joined then for the rest of the season back to his former club at Groningen.
For the season 1997/98 Huistra went to the Belgian First Division for Lierse SK. Here he spent two years active before he could no longer compete due to a severe hamstring injury. Although his contract in Lier ran for another year and he stayed then also even if they do have a contract with training at RBC Roosendaal fit, but did not return back to the square. After 394 first division matches in four countries, in which he scored 71 goals, Huistras ended 16 years long professional career.
Stations
As a professional football player:
- FC Groningen (Eredivisie 1984-1986, 17 appearances / one goal)
- BV Veendam (Eredivisie 1986/87, 33/5 )
- FC Twente (Eredivisie 1987-1990, 93 /17)
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima ( J. League from 1995 to 1996, 63 /13)
- FC Groningen (Eredivisie in 1997, 9/2)
- Lierse SK ( Eerste Klasse 1997-2000, 54 /11)
National
After winning the 1988 European Thijs Rinus Michels took over from Libregts as Bondscoach the Dutch Oranje. While Libregts let in the first two games after the games, the two games of the World Cup qualifiers against Wales and the DFB, more experienced players go first, he was able to test in subsequent friendlies young players. On November 16, 1988, he sent in the Olympic Stadium Rome with Huistra, the Bochum Rob Reekers, René Eijkelkamp from FC Groningen as well as the substitute in the second half Enscheder Fred Rutten four debutants on the lawn; came to two players who had previously only one had a short stint in the Elftal with Adick Koot of PSV and fellow substitute John van Loen Kerkrader. Although the new ragtag team defeated the Italians 0-1, but delivered from not a bad game. Libregts occupied in the coming games, the Left Wing position of Orange with Huistra, so also in the him afterwards " most important and most exciting game" in the national team. On 26 April 1989, the Netherlands met in de Kuip in the World Cup qualifiers for the return again to their old rivals Germany. A goal by Karl Heinz Riedle the home lead after 70 minutes to return with 0:1; the compensation by Marco van Basten fell only after Huistra was already replaced.
In winter 1989/90 with a groin injury Huistra threw back, in March 1990, he was able to come back into playing mode - to be appointed too late to re-enter the national team. Although he was shortlisted for the World Cup squad, but did not succeed in the final 22 - he squad for Italy, which had something to do with his opinion with the change in the coaching reins of Libregts to Leo Beenhakker, the player of Ajax preferred. Only in April 1991, when Huistra had already been successful in Glasgow, Rinus Michels national coach called him back into the team. In the European Championship qualifier he came in two games against Finland for use; then he made against Poland on 11 September 1991 at the Eindhoven Philips Stadium his last international game.
After his playing career was Huistra coach. Even as he hoped at RBC, return to the place he received the offer of the KNVB, as assistant to Arno Pijpers for the Dutch U- 17 national team at the European Championships in 2000 in Israel to act, where the team finished in third place. He then worked for a time as assistant coach for the national team of Hong Kong, where he was also responsible for the U-17 team. A year later he returned to him "the most important club," who had been " the basis for his future career ": he was a youth coach at FC Groningen. From 2005 he was assistant coach Aad de Mos at the SBV Vitesse Arnhem. In 2009, he was briefly as a substitute for the injured Rob Witschge assistant coach at AFC Ajax. The Amsterdammers he was hired for the season 2009/10 as coach of the second team Jong Ajax, and thus as the successor to Adrie Koster. In December 2009, his obligation as head coach of FC Groningen for season 2010/ 11 was known. In the 2010/11 season he led the team to fifth place, but missed in the penalty shootout of the playoffs the European Cup participation. His contract was valid until the end of the 2012/13 season, but after he just had not reached the 14th place in the table, once again the season goal of European competition in 2011/ 12 with the FC, the club's co-operation ended in May 2012 ahead of schedule. Overall Huistra stood in 68 league appearances for Groningen on the sidelines, 27 of which were recovered. For the 2012/13 season, he took over as coach at relegated De Graafschap in the Eerste Divisie.