Erwin Koeman

Erwin Koeman 2010

Erwin Koeman ( born September 20, 1961 in Zaandam, Netherlands ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach.

  • 3.1 As a player

Career as a player

Association

Koeman has grown up in a family footballers. Father Martin played for years GVAV in Groningen; Erwin's younger brother Ronald also played football at the top level. Erwin Koeman made ​​his debut in professional football at FC Groningen. After the first six missions in the Eredivisie, he moved to PSV Eindhoven in 1979, but returned after three seasons back to Groningen. Again, three years later he went in 1985 to the then Belgian top club KV Mechelen. With the KV it was 1987 Belgian Cup winners 1988 and won in the final against Ajax Amsterdam the European Cup Winners' Cup.

After his time in Mechelen in 1990, he returned to the Netherlands and initially played four more seasons for PSV, with whom he became Dutch champion in 1991 and 1992. He finished his career at the club where this began, FC Groningen, for whom he was once again active from 1994 to 1998.

National

Erwin Koeman played 34 times for the Dutch national football team, scoring three goals. In Germany in 1988 he was European champion. This tournament Koeman graduated four games.

Career as a coach

After his active football career Koeman has only youth, later assistant coach alongside Eric Gerets at PSV. In the season 2004/ 05 he was head coach of RKC Waalwijk. His contract with RKC was terminated prematurely because Koeman was committed on 1 July 2005 as manager of Feyenoord Rotterdam. Here he came into effect on May 3, 2007 the play-offs for the UEFA Cup places back - at a time when his brother Ronald had just secured as manager of PSV the championship. On 1 May 2008, he took over from Péter Várhidi the coach of the Hungarian national team, which he was to lead to the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. In July 2010, broke up the association of Koeman, once the team did not qualify for the World Cup. His successor was appointed Sándor Egervári. For the 2011/12 season he followed sound you Chatinier after as coach of FC Utrecht. After a short stint at FC Eindhoven RKC Waalwijk signed him for two years from the 2012/13 season.

Achievements

As a player

  • Belgian Cup winner with KV Mechelen: 1987
  • European Cup winner with KV Mechelen: 1988
  • UEFA Super Cup with KV Mechelen: 1988
  • European Championship: 1988
  • Belgian champion with KV Mechelen: 1989
  • Dutch champion with PSV Eindhoven: 1991, 1992
  • Dutch Supercup with PSV Eindhoven: 1992
Martin Koeman Ronald Koeman 2011–12 Eredivisie 2013–14 Eredivisie Arjan van Dijk Michael Lamey Dennis Lemke Frank van Mosselveld Imad Najah Dennis Rommedahl Evander Sno
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