Mario van der Ende
Mario van der Ende ( born March 28, 1956 in The Hague ) is a former Dutch football players, football coaches and football referee. After his playing career, he is active as a referee functionary in Saudi Arabia as well as in the associations FIFA and UEFA as a referee observer. In addition, he founded in 2007 its human resources consulting firm Endless progression.
Career as a football referee
At the beginning of the career of the 187 -centimeter Mario Van played at the end of 1964 to 1966 in Gona The Hague and from 1966 to 1976 at ADO Den Haag active football.
After completing his footballer career, he graduated from 1976-1980 his training as a football coach, where he acquired the licenses D, C and B. At the same time he took over as coach in 1976, the commitment Ado den Haag. More coach stations were Westerkwartier VUC and Haaglandia ( Rijswijk ), before exposure to the youth of the Dutch Football Association (KNVB ) was followed as a talent finder, coaches and trainers. In addition, van der end lecturer for football referees at the Dutch Football Association.
In parallel, van put the end of 1977 the examination for football referee from. By 1985, he was only in the amateur to use. From 1985, he led the Dutch professional football games, where he rose to more than 500 missions.
Mario van der Ende 1990 was appointed as a FIFA referee. This was the start of an impressive international career that had its high points in three game lines at the Football World Cup 1994 in the U.S. and two appearances in the Football World Cup 1998 in France. There were also a application at the European Football Championship in England in 1996, 13 games in the UEFA Champions League, 19 games in the UEFA Cup, three games in the Europa Cup Winners' Cup and two games in the UEFA Supercup.
In 1999, cancer was diagnosed in van der Ende, which led to an interruption of his career. Although the disease was geheil after about a year, he had to end his international career as a football referee on 26 October 2000, having reached the age limit with the UEFA Cup match against Slavia Prague OFI Heraklion ( 2:2 ) after 135 missions. On November 4, 2001 van closed the end with the game Roda Kerkrade vs FC Groningen ( 3-1 ) in front of 13,500 spectators and his national career from.
Thanks to its extensive experience van is the end used since 2002 by the UEFA and FIFA as a referee observer.
Even the Australian Football Federation ( FFA ) recognized the skills van der end and ordered him on 12 August 2008 as a successor to Rob Baan as interim Technical Director for its football referee. As such, he is responsible not only for the sporting interests of the game manager, but also for their personal development, for that matter appearance in public.
As of 2009, a commitment was followed by an adviser to the Saudi Arabian Football Federation ( SAFF ). In this role, he works to this day (December 2011 ).
In the " referee board " van joined the end at the farewell game of Dennis Bergkamp ( July 22, 2006, 54,000 spectators at London's Emirates Stadium ) and Ger Senden (2008) again in the public eye.
International assignments as a soccer referee
The following list is only a sampling of international missions as a football referee Mario van der Ende dar.
Career
Mario van der Ende trained as a teacher. From 1984 to 1996, he worked as a teacher, companion study and dean at the Tinbergen Reyneveld College in The Hague and Delft. Between 1996 and 1999 he was co-founder and academic advisor of Schoevers Business Classes where he escorted top athletes in their development. At the same time he was active between 1996 and 2007 for the Dutch Football Association as heads of departments and professional football referee. Between 1999 and 2007, van der Ende for training, monitoring and selection of the arbitrators of the Dutch Football Association (KNVB ) was responsible.
In 2007, van der Ende his own company Endless progression, a personal coaching and training center.