Robert Maaskant

Robert Maaskant ( born January 10, 1969 in Schiedam ) is a Dutch football coach and former professional football player.

Career

As a player

Robert Maaskant started in the 1989/90 season his career at Go Ahead Eagles. Then he moved for one year to RBC Roosendaal, after which he accepted the offer of the Scottish first division club FC Motherwell. After a one year stint, he returned to Holland, where he most recently 1995/1996 played the next three years for FC Zwolle and for Excelsior Rotterdam.

As a coach

His career as a coach began Robert Maaskant in 1996 as an assistant coach at FC Zwolle. There he was employed until 1999, a total of three years. He then went for three years, first as a head coach to RBC Roosendaal. This was followed by a one-year commitment at his former club Go Ahead Eagles before he coached 2004/2005 Willem II Tilburg. In the season 2006/2007 he was for the second time at RBC Roosendaal active as a coach before he became a 2007/2008 head coach of second division club MVV Maastricht. From summer 2008 to August 2010, trained Robert Maaskant the first division club NAC Breda. On 21 August 2010, he was coach of the Polish first division club Wisła Kraków and the Cracow in his first season Polish Champion. After several failures Maaskant was released in November 2011 in Krakow and took after a short Gage Movement in the United States in May 2012 an offer from FC Groningen. After his contract was not renewed in 2013, Maaskant signed in June 2013 as coach of Belarus Dinamo Minsk.

Success as a coach

• Polish Champion 2011 ( with Wisła Kraków )
• Promotion to the Eredivisie in 2000 and 2002 ( with RBC Roosendaal )