Fred Grim

Johann Georg Friedrich " Fred " Grim ( born August 17, 1965 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football coach and former goalkeeper.

Career

Players at Cambuur and Ajax

His career began Grim in the youth of JOS from the district of Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer. In 1984 he came from there to AFC Ajax and also was in the first team squad, but was in no match of the Eredivisie used. During the current season 1986/87 Cambuur coach Fritz Korbach brought him to Leeuwarden in the Eerste Divisie. Under the German instructor he gave in December 1986, his debut in the gate of the second division, as Oscar Zijlstra had suffered a back injury. Grim was equal to regular keeper and remained there for almost seven years. At the end of his first season was a close third place for the previous year's nineteenth, but the highlight was for Grim his first title: after four seasons in mediocrity, the team under coach Rob Baan in the 1991/92 season champion and rose in the Eredivisie on. With the descent 1994 Grim ended after 272 league games his time at SC Cambuur and went back to AFC Ajax.

An old workplace him the same fate seemed fated as before the bench. From the time of his move he came to the end of the 1998/99 season only four times in five years to a use in the Eredivisie. Only when the number one Edwin van der Sar moved to Juventus, Grim was now 34 years -choice goalkeeper at Ajax. For three years he occupied this position until after winning the doubles league and KNVB Cup ended his active career at the end of the season 2001/ 02. 128 games for the Amsterdam, including 101 in the league, were at this time for him to book. "It was hard to stop after such a highlight, " he said later, "but I could my ambitions, coach, will continue to pursue. "

Coach

Fred Grim's coaching career began seamlessly after his playing days at AFC Ajax also, first as a goalkeeper coach in the youth field. In 2003 he made ​​his coaching diploma. As of July 2004, he was responsible together with John van den Brom for the second team of Ajax Amsterdam Jong.

From 2007 to 2009 Grim worked as an assistant, first by Gert Aandewiel, then from Foeke Booy at Sparta Rotterdam. In 2009 he returned to AFC Ajax; now he had acquired his professional coaching license. From 2010 he was coach of the youth of Ajax, his contract ran until 2014. During the season 2010/11 he was in personal union also assistant coach of the Netherlands U-19 national team. In October 2012, he joined as a coach for the second division Almere City FC.

Awards and achievements

  • Master of the Eerste Divisie: 1992
  • Choosing best goalkeepers in the history of SC Cambuur: 2007
  • Dutch champion: 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002
  • Winner of the KNVB Cup: 1998, 1999, 2005
  • Winner of the Johan Cruijff Schaal: 1994, 1995, 2002
  • Champions League winner: 1995
  • Winners of the European Super Cup: 1995
  • Winner of the World Cup: 1995
1998–99 Eredivisie 2001–02 Eredivisie 1994–95 Eredivisie 1995–96 Eredivisie 1997–98 Eredivisie
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