Mark Wotte
Mark Wotte ( born December 16, 1960 in Enschede) is a Dutch former football player and current coach.
Playing career
Wotte began his active career in 1980 at FC Vlaardingen in the Eerste Divisie, the second highest Dutch professional league. Right away he made a breakthrough and there was a regular player. So good was his personal development, so bad was that of the clubs. In the league, it was only enough to last place and finally had the club to file for bankruptcy, which led to relegation. But Wottes services also noticed the Dutch first division, so he moved to Feyenoord Rotterdam in the summer of 1981. His debut in the Eredivisie he was then on October 18, 1981 in a 4-2 victory against AZ Alkmaar. This Wotte came on in the 84th minute for André Stafleu. There, however, he was rarely used and the ways both in the summer of 1982, they parted again. His last Erstligabegegnung graduated from the defender on May 22, 1982 against FC Twente, where he was in the starting of the club. Until then, he was only seventeen league minutes. Wotte signed in the summer of 1982 in the Eredivisie relegation FC Den Haag, where he came to more missions again. As relegated you missed its chances of promotion. The defender transferred again and contributed to the new season 's jersey league rival Voetbal Vereniging Schiedamse. There he was then three years of active without having significant success. 1986 ended Wotte at the age of 25 years, his active career.
Coaching career
During his playing days, he moved into coaching Wotte business. For the season 1982/83 he was already active in youth coaching staff of ADO Den Haag before he oversaw from 1983 head coach at the club unterklassigen VV Rijswijk, the Wotte to 1988. In the same year he enlisted ADO Den Haag, where he became the youth supervised. 1990 Wotte moved into coaching team of Co Adriaanse to train the Eredivisie team with. After this was eliminated, Wotte was briefly head coach until Neutrainer Nol de Ruiter let him move into second place again. 1994 lured him of amateur club FC Lisse, where the football coach for two years remained before the Hague is reported again. Wotte took over from Theo desire and led the team in 1996/97 and 1997/98 in the play- off round to climb to the Dutch House of Lords. However, these were each missed. At his side as an assistant coach stood André Wetzel, with whom he worked in the following years. For the new season, FC Utrecht secured the services of the trainer. After only one year signed Wotte at FC Den Bosch. Once again this commitment has been completed, the football coach was responsible for the U- 21 team of the Netherlands, where he Wetzel, then head coach of the U19 team, again assisted. At the same time Wotte works under Louis van Gaal for senior national team. With the U21 is Wotte wanted to qualify for the U-21 European Football Championships 2002, they managed after but after failing in the play- off matches 2:2 and 0:1 against England. He later coached A- national team stars such as Dirk Kuyt and Rafael van der Vaart. After the failure Wotte moved back into the club coach business and sparked Hans Westerhof from the Willem II Tilburg. But the team had only Mid-level successes. After the coach Willem left, took over his longtime helper Wetzel. After a spell at Feyenoord Rotterdam served as athletic director, dared Wotte step abroad and signed in 2006 a contract with Egyptian club Ismaily SC. After half a year, he moved back to the Netherlands, where he was coach of RKC Waalwijk in November. After only one season with the Waalwijkern to Wotte tried in Qatar with Al -Ahli SC. In summer 2008, the English second division side FC Southampton promoted him from where he should be responsible as an assistant coach. In January 2009, he broke land husband Jan Poortvliet from as head coach. In July of the same year, after the born in Germany Markus Liebherr bought out the club the day before and saved it from bankruptcy, even Wotte was replaced. Shortly before he was even in the league of the FCS is not secure, so that the club relegated to the Football League One. Even for Liebherr's takeover agreed to the Saints board and Wotte to a further work. After half a year break, he was hired by the Romanian club FC Universitatea Craiova. These were located at that time in the fight to avoid relegation. Already in May 2010, on leave him FCUC managers after Wotte lost two games in a row. Overall, he won only five out of thirteen games with Universitatea. Only two weeks later, he was introduced as the new coach of his former club Ismaily SC. With them he not only started in the Egyptian Premier League, but also in the CAF Champions League. About the Kenyan club Sofapaka FC, the club Stade U.S. Tamponnaise from the island of Réunion and the representative of the Sudan Al- Hilal Khartoum to Wotte qualified with his club for the group stage of the competition. There you missed after only two wins and four defeats in six games the next round and placed himself behind JS Kabylie, Al -Ahly Cairo, but before Heartland FC.
Trivia
- Wotte has two sons, Boy Wotte and Sem Wotte, both actively playing football, the leap into the professional league but have not yet succeeded. Boy playing in the current youth of ADO Den Haag.