Ernest Faber

Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber ( born August 27, 1971 in Geldrop ) is a Dutch former football player and current coach. With PSV Eindhoven, he won the championship four times, once the Cup six times and the Supercup. The defender was beyond even the national team to use.

Club career

Faber came in Geldrop, a few kilometers east of Eindhoven, to the world and began playing football at the Eindhoven football club DBS. Even in the C1 youth he moved to the neighboring big club; 1990 gave him the PSV a contract as a professional. The regular central defender or Vorstopper who occasionally played on the outer positions in defense, however, was borrowed as early as the first season of the Premier League rivals NEC Nijmegen. Here he was two days before his 19th birthday, on 25 August, 1990, his debut in the Eredivisie; NEC won at MVV Maastricht 2:1. NEC rose at the end of the season, in the Faber came to 30 stakes, as Table with 62 goals conceded from. In the following season PSV gave him at Sparta Rotterdam, where he completed 32 games in the Eredivisie. In the 1992/93 season he stayed with PSV and was on 2 September 1992 its first use in the red-white- striped jersey to celebrate: in 72 minutes he was substituted in the 3-0 victory over Cambuur Leeuwarden for Erwin Koeman. Only 14 days later, he also gave his international debut for the Eindhoven: in the Champions League he came in the first round first leg against Zalgiris Vilnius to use, just then in the second round and in five games in the group stage.

Until the winter break 1993/94 Faber came in one and a half years to 23 league games for PSV before he was in the second round in 1994 again, this time on loan at FC Groningen. However, this was his last stop outside of Eindhoven; the rest of his career, he spent the summer of 1994 to the end of the 2003/04 season at PSV. He was, however, prone to injury and had to undergo multiple surgeries on knees, ankles and Achilles tendon. So he came in this decade only on 152 league games. The first of its only six league goals he scored for PSV in the match in Maastricht on April 14, 1995; only one minute after Richard Roelofsen MVV had brought in, Faber equalized to 1:1; the game ended 3-2 for PSV.

In the 2003 /04 season, he only came twice to the square. His last game for PSV was the home game against Feyenoord on 14 March 2004. After 67 minutes, he came as a substitute for Remco van der Schaaf into play. Then his professional career was ended after 248 games with six goals in the Eredivisie, 45 games and one goal in European Cup competitions as well as 13 operations.

National

In February 1998, invited Bond Coach Guus Hiddink Faber, who had played a very solid season with the reigning Dutch champions to a training camp of the national team in Florida a. The team should prepare himself for the upcoming World Cup; Faber should fly with as a freshman. The main cast in the center of defense were at the time Frank de Boer and Faber's club colleague Jaap Stam, who had all World Cup Qualifiers disputed together since October 1996.

In the first game of training camp at Pro Player Stadium in Miami began as usual Stam and de Boer. At half-time Winston Bogarde came into the team for Stam, Faber remained 90 minutes on the bench. The Dutch won against the U.S. team 2-0. Three days later, on February 24, de Boer and Bogarde were chosen against Mexico. After Patrick Kluivert had brought a double whammy and Wim Jonk her team within three minutes on the clock, the game after 20 minutes was already as good as decided; Hiddink had the opportunity to experiment. After he had changed in the interval three times, was allowed to Faber in the 58th minute for Bogarde on the field and so came to his debut in Oranje, however, reach the Mexicans after this Substitutes two goals to the final score of 2:3 - the second of a penalty, caused Faber. Maybe he would have been appointed yet in the squad for the World Cup, he had not in the last home game of the season with PSV again touched on the Achilles tendon. So Faber's first international match was also his last.

Coach

After the end of his active career Faber was first junior coach at PSV. In September 2006 he went as assistant coach to local rivals FC Eindhoven, in which he dismissed the transitional Louis Coolen took on 24 October 2007 as head coach. Lacking the license, Gerald Vanenburg was engaged as successor, but remained only three months; 25 March 2008 Faber was again interim coach, this time until end of season. Then he returned to PSV, where he took over the responsibility for the A1- boys team. For the 2010/11 season, he took over as the successor of Jan Poortvliet athletic responsibilities as head coach at FC Eindhoven in the Eerste Divisie. Since the end of January 2011, he was also the successor of Frank de Boer one of the assistant coach Bert van Marwijk in the national team; this task ended with the termination of the contract van Marwijk after the Euro 2012. Upon dismissal Fred Rutten at PSV, he returned on March 12, again in 2012 to his hometown club, where he initially cared for together with interim head coach Phillip Cocu the Eredivisie team. Then Faber worked as assistant to the new head coach Dick Advocaat. The collaboration with Faber's PSV is scheduled for the end of the 2013/14 season.

Achievements

• Dutch champion: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003 ( PSV)
• Dutch Cup: 1996 ( PSV)
• Dutch Supercup: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 (PSV )