André Hoekstra
André Hoekstra ( born April 5, 1962 in Baarn ) is a Dutch football coach and former professional player. With Feyenoord he won as a player in 1984, the league and cup double. In the 2009/10 season, he is responsible for the common second team of Excelsior and Feyenoord as assistant coach at Excelsior Rotterdam.
Club career
Hoekstra began his career at De Zwervers ( " The Tramp " ) and the VV Capelle in Capelle aan den IJssel, before moving to Feyenoord. Here he came in the 1981/82 season in the squad for the first team, in April 1982 he made his debut in the Eredivisie. In the following season conquered Koko ( he got his nickname because of a Friesian former football player named Koko Hoekstra ) is a place in the right side of midfield.
For the 1983/84 season came coach Thijs Libregts and Johan Cruijff to Feyenoord; with the two wanted the Rotterdam finally break the dominance of the Amsterdam AFC Ajax, with the Cruijff had won in the previous two seasons the championship. Who really was the man of the two, Hoekstra could even years later not to say; on the field, it was certainly Cruijff. The young Hoekstra - the way sports student who just twice a week could participate in the training of the first team - learned a lot from the now 36 -year-old "King Johan ": " Harnessing the rooms, for example; to indicate by means of a passport, what is intended;. sharp as possible to fit " on the right side roulierten Sjaak Troost, Hoekstra and Ruud Gullit in their positions; Cruijff kept order in the game: the gain achieved its effect. Of the first six league games won five Feyenoord and played once in a draw; then, however, there was at Ajax with 2:8 a bitter defeat. In the second round they beat their rivals but then with 4:1, in addition to Cruyff, Gullit and Henk Hoekstra Duut also achieved the results. And also at the end of the season Feyenoord had ahead: with five points ahead of PSV, Ajax were six before the Rotterdam champion; Hoekstra had scored 19 goals in 33 games, Peter Houtman as the best striker 20, Gullit 15, Cruiff 11 In the cup final beating Fortuna Sittard and picked up the sixth time the KNVB Beker.
Cruyff ended after this season his career; without him Feyenoord PSV and Ajax was again ousted from the top. Three times Hoekstra could still reach third place with Feyenoord. In his last season in Rotterdam 1987/88 he scored again ten goals in 20 missions, but the team this season was only sixth in the championship. Also in the UEFA Cup flourished Hoekstra, scored three goals in six games. Feyenoord reached the second round for the first time since 1982; in the first leg against Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored by Hoekstra 0:2 behind the equalizer, but in the second leg would retire with a goal by Falko Götz from.
For the season 1988/89 Hoekstra joined RKC Waalwijk, the straight - was first ascended in the Eredivisie - with Hoekstra's former teammate Stanley Brard. With the club from North Brabant, he reached good midfield places in the table in the following years. In 1994 he ended his active career here.
National
In the spring of 1984 Bondscoach Kees Rijvers received some cancellations of regular players. The Netherlands had the European Championship qualifier in December missed a goal after Spain had won the last game in Malta with 12:1, and the shock was still deep. What should serve on the EM to prepare, had become an unimportant friendly match; Hoekstra was one of the spare men who called Rijvers for the game on 14 March 1984 against Denmark. In Amsterdam, the embarrassment team but left no slouch. Wim Kieft and René van der Gijp provided the 2-0 halftime lead forth. After the break, increased Hoekstra's team-mate Houtman 3-0; 4-0 Hoekstra scored in the 59th minute. Every once Houtman and van der Gijp set the final score of 6:0 ago. Hoekstra later remembered the match: " Before, I was glad that I was allowed to play at all. To score a goal, which turned out to be much more beautiful out. " Danish team reached at the European Championships in France then the semi-finals and retired there after a penalty shoot- out against the Spaniards.
The next match of the Oranje took place in the World Cup qualifiers in October. Hoekstra was not considered again; the match against Denmark was his only appearance in the Orange.
Coach
Hoekstra became a coach after his playing days. He began as an assistant coach at RBC Roosendaal, before he moved in the same capacity to ADO Den Haag. There he took over in season 1987/88 the Office of the head coach, as Mark Wotte moved to FC Utrecht. After the season 1998/99 he went as a coach to Excelsior Rotterdam, where he has since worked at youth level. In the 2009/10 season, he is responsible for the B team, the first time there as a joint team composed of players from Excelsior and Feyenoord since the beginning of the season.
Achievements
- Dutch Champion 1984 ( Feyenoord )
- KNVB Cup winner 1984 ( Feyenoord )