Bert Jacobs
Bert Jacobs ( born March 5, 1941 in Zandvoort, † 14 November 1999) was a Dutch football player and coach
Playing career
As a player, Jacobs was less successful. In his brief playing career he represented the colors of Zandvoortmeeuwen and HFC Haarlem
Coaching career
At the age of 27 years, Jacobs came to his first coach station. In Velox, one of the three previous clubs of FC Utrecht, he was but a year before he took over the fate of the newly founded club FC Utrecht. His best finish with the FCU achieved Jacobs was 1971/72 earned a sixth place. After four years the coach changed in the summer of 1974 to league rival Roda JC Kerkrade. There he took over from the set until February Fritz Pliska. With Kerkrade Jacobs has always played in the top third of the table. But the big league success did not happen. In 1976 to the final of the KNVB Cup. A goal by Ralf Edström, however Roda defeated 0-1 against PSV Eindhoven. 1980/81 it took Jacob to Willem II Tilburg. He remained, however, only two season, without being able to celebrate their successes. Finally, Seiko SA attracted soccer teacher to Hong Kong. There he could win the national title in the summer of 1983 and returned back to the Netherlands. Sparta Rotterdam secured the services of the trainer. However, a sixth place was not sufficient and Jacobs left the team again. In Fortuna Sittard, the seventh coach station, Jacobs remained three years. In 1985, he led the club to seventh place in the Eredivisie, the best finish in the club's history. Only 1991 and 1999, this success was repeated. The year before we made it to the finals of the KNVB Cup. Again, Jacobs failed in the final. Nevertheless, the club was entitled in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 / 85 to start. Only in the quarter-finals was against the eventual winners FC Everton statements. In December 1986 he gave up his office to focus on the occurred in him cancer. After improvement Jacobs signed in the summer of 1987 at Vitesse Arnhem. After initial difficulties, he led the then second division in 1989 back in the highest Dutch league. There he established the team and led it until 1992, three times in a row in the top 5 in the league. During the winter break 1992/93 brought him the Spanish representative Sporting de Gijón. Already in April 1993, Jacobs was released. When RKC Waalwijk he was eventually again two years active, played with the club but always against relegation. After a short year at FC Volendam, Jacobs went back to Waalwijk, supervised the team for a year as a coach and was then technical director of the club.
On 14 November 1999, the football coach succumbed to cancer.
Achievements
- Master with Seiko SA: 1983
- Winning the Eerste Divisie with Vitesse Arnhem: 1989