Theo Bos (footballer)
Theo Bos (2011)
Theo Bos ( born October 5, 1965 in Nijmegen, † 28 February 2013 in Elst ) was a Dutch football player and coach. Because of his many years of loyalty to Vitesse Arnhem, both as a player and as a coach, he was known as " Mister Vitesse ».
Playing career
Theo Bos played his whole career at Vitesse Arnhem. He made his debut on 31 August 1983 against FC Wageningen ( 3-0 Vitesse ), his last league game was on 25 March 1998 against NAC Breda ( 4-1 Vitesse ). In the fifteen years of his professional career Bos played six years in the Eerste Divisie and nine years in the Eredivisie. While he was only a league use in the second Dutch league in his first year 1983/84, he was from summer 1985 to summer 1996, constantly starting players and performers and never graduated less than 27 games per season. Only in his last two years as a professional Bos was propagated in the spectator role. His greatest success with Arnhem celebrated the defensive player 1988/89, when he won first place in the First Division and rose. In the first year after the rise Bos was with his club fourth, the best league result of Arnhem in the history of the history of the Eredivisie. In order to qualify for the UEFA Cup for the first time. In the same year they failed in the final of the KNVB Cup at PSV Eindhoven. In his last year as a pro, the black and yellow third in the league were. Thus Bos said goodbye to his active playing career.
Together with his former teammate Edward Sturing Bos was on 27 January 1999, his farewell game in the UEFA Cup against German side FC Schalke 04
After the 1989/90 season Theo Bos was elected by the supporters of the clubs best player of the team. Thus he was the first Vitesse kicker this award, which was first launched in 1990. The following year he was succeeded by René Eijer. Other well-known bearer of this title were Phillip Cocu and Dejan Stefanović.
Successes as a player
- Winning the Eerste Divisie with Vitesse Arnhem: 1989
- Finalist KNVB Cup with Vitesse Arnhem: 1990
- Award for Vitesse Player of the Year: 1990
Coaching career
Bos first job as coach was at his home club Vitesse Arnhem, where he was active as a youth coach of the A and B youth. In the meantime, he also worked as assistant coach Ronald Koeman, Mike Snoei and Edward Sturing. In the summer of 2005 left " Mister Vitesse " the club, and went to FC Den Bosch, where he replaced the interim coach Trio Jan van Grinsve, Fred van der Hoorn and Wim van der Horst, to create the re-emergence in the highest Dutch league. In the first year in the Eerste Divisie he led the team to seventh place, in the following year in fifth place. Only in 2008 /09 he led the fcdb in the play-offs for the Eredivisie. After a 1-0 win against FC Zwolle, followed by two defeats and therefore you missed the final relegation match against De Graafschap. Over the 2008/09 season, the winter break, he returned to poor results of Hans Westerhof back to Vitesse. His coach debut, for which he was fifteen years for the club active as a professional, Bos was 18 games, 17 January 2009 in the away match against FC Twente Enschede. The game was lost 1:2. Finally, he secured the black and yellow in the league. For the new season, a new investor got in at Vitesse and gave Bos possible new players as Guram Kashia, Slobodan Rajković Ismail Aissati, Nemanja Matic, Nacer Barazite and Marcus Pedersen to commit to make the team competitive for the title fight. After a poor start to the new season Bos was terminated after 9 matches and so far only two victories achieved by the Vitesse managers. In early 2011, Bos Coach of Polonia Warsaw, but after two months he was released due to poor results. For the 2011/12 season he took over the head coaching reins at FC Dordrecht, he resigned due to his progressive disease in July 2012.
Death
In December 2011 she was diagnosed with Theo Bos pancreatic cancer. On February 28, 2013 Theo Bos died in Elst in Gelderland, he leaves behind his wife and three children.