René Hofman

René Hofman ( born March 8, 1961 in Heerlen ) is a Dutch former football player. He was active in the Eredivisie Roda JC, Feyenoord and Fortuna Sittard and made an international match for the Netherlands.

Club career

Hofman began his career at KEV in his hometown of Heerlen. His professional debut in the Eredivisie he gave in the 1979/80 season at Roda JC. The attacker used mostly as a right winger became a committed donor template within the next two years for regular players. In total, he spent ten years in Kerkrade active, interrupted by three seasons at Feyenoord from 1986 to 1989, where he coach Rinus Israël attracted, who was eager to have him in his team, with whom he but did not get along. Nevertheless, he achieved in three years a total of 33 goals for Feyenoord, 14 of them, and eleven assists in his first season. After his return he played until 1992 Roda, before he moved to Limburg rivals to Sittard. With the Fortunen he dismounted in 1993 and left it there end his career with a then season in the Eerste Divisie. Overall, he came to 389 inserts in the Eredivisie, while he scored 97 goals. Twelve times he played with Roda and Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup; his only goal in the competition, on 1 October 1986 in the 84th minute of the second leg of the first round of the 1986/87 to make it 2-0 against the MSC Pécs, preserving the Rotterdam before renewal and possible early exit.

National

Hofman was appointed in November 1982, 21 years of Bond coach Kees Rijvers in the national team. In the friendly against France in which goalkeeper Edward Metgod and Jan Wouters made ​​their debut in Oranje, he had to spend 90 minutes on the bench. To his own surprise, he stood six weeks later in the starting lineup, as the Netherlands competed on 19 December 1982 in the European Championship qualifier against Malta. The Maltese had their home game moved to Germany at the Aachen Tivoli, just a few kilometers from the Dutch border and Hofman's hometown Heerlen. The game drew 17,000 mainly Dutch viewers to Aachen - so many had never pursued a "home game" of the Maltese. Under the leadership of the German referee Dieter Pauly the Netherlands won 6-0. Hofman was not satisfied with his performance itself; neither he scored a goal nor could he give an assist. Rijvers joined him and Gerald Vanenburg 66 minutes with the score at 5-0 off, for they came Ruud Gullit and Jurrie Koolhof. That he then got no chance in the national team, Hofmann found in retrospect strange. " At 30, I have played a lot better than when I had yet to learn ," he said in March 2009. Way, he has not changed after the game his Orange jersey. It is - as each a shirt of clubs for whom he played - still with him at home in the closet.

After the active time

After his playing career Hofman has coached numerous amateur clubs niederklassige. He works as a physical education teacher for people with intellectual disabilities.