Foppe de Haan

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Haan, not Haan.
Foppe de Haan
De Haan in 2017
Personal information
Full name Foppe Geert de Haan
Date of birth (1943-06-26) 26 June 1943 (age 81)
Place of birth Lippenhuizen, Netherlands
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1956–1957 SV THOR
1957–1961 GVAC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1963 GAVC
1963–1965 VV Heerenveen
1965–1968 GAVC
1968–1970 Zuid Eschmarke
1970–1973 Akkrum
1973–1974 Enschedese Boys
Managerial career
1974–1978 VV Akkrum
1976–1977 Heerenveen (youth)
1977–1980 Drachtster Boys
1980–1983 ACV
1983–1985 Steenwijk
1985–1988 Heerenveen
1992–2004 Heerenveen
2004–2009 Netherlands U21
2008 Netherlands U23[1]
2006–2007 Indonesia U23
2009–2011 Ajax Cape Town
2011 Tuvalu
2015−2016 Heerenveen (interim)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Netherlands (as manager)
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Winner 2006
Winner 2007
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Foppe Geert de Haan[1] (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɔpə də ˈɦaːn], born 26 June 1943) is a Dutch football coach.[2] He is known for his long association with Frisian club Heerenveen. De Haan was the manager of the Tuvalu national team during 2011 and then rejoined Heerenveen's youth programme. He is also a politician for the Partij van de Arbeid.

Career

De Haan was born in Lippenhuizen, Friesland. He started his managerial career in 1974 with VV Akkrum. After two years, he combined this role with the youth team manager's position at Heerenveen. By 1978, he had become the manager for Drachtster Boys. He then moved to ACV in 1980, and to Steenwijk in 1983. In 1985, de Haan re-joined Heerenveen, this time as an assistant coach. He continued to spend the next 20 years with the club—the longest time a coach worked for a Dutch professional football club.[3] De Haan was promoted to become the head coach in 1992. In 1993, he led the club back to the Eredivisie. They finished in the Eredivisie with Heerenveen in 2000, as the second place. Thus, they qualifyied for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history.[3]

In 2003, he received the Sport Award and on 10 May 2004, after his final game as coach of Heerenveen, he was acknowledged as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[4] He was successively appointed as coach of the Netherlands U21 national team (Dutch: Jong Oranje), with whom he won the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.[5][6]

De Haan was accused by Steven Taylor of calling him a "cheat" as he had been injured in the match and was originally not going to take a penalty in the semi-final penalty shoot-out. Taylor eventually took and scored his penalty in the shootout which made the Netherlands won despite the act. A semifinal spot in the latter tournament also qualified the Dutch for the 2008 Summer Olympics football tournament, leading his side to the quarter-finals where they were ultimately defeated by Argentina after extra time.[1]

De Haan had announced that he would retire from football at the end of the 2008–09 season, when his contract with the KNVB expired.[3] Instead he returned to work as a senior advisor at SC Heerenveen, before being appointed head coach at South African Premier Soccer League club Ajax Cape Town.

De Haan managed the Tuvalu national team through their 2011 Pacific Games campaign.[7] De Haan left his post after the tournament to rejoin Heerenveen's youth programme.[8]

On 20 October 2015, De Haan became interim coach of SC Heerenveen after the team had a disappointing start of the season and Dwight Lodeweges left as head coach. Under De Haan the team went on to win four of their first six games, drawing and losing one.[9][10]

Honours

Netherlands

References

  1. ^ a b c ARG – NED 2:1 a.e.t., FIFA, Olympic Football Tournament Beijing 2008
  2. ^ Vrolik, W. (1855). "Foppe de Haan tot tranen toe geroerd". Verslagen en Mededeelingen. 3: 399–408.
  3. ^ a b c "Dutch legend De Haan to retire from coaching". UEFA.com. 30 March 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  4. ^ "Indrukwekkend afscheid van Ridder Foppe voor eigen publiek". SC Heerenveen (in Dutch). 9 May 2004. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  5. ^ UEFA.com (8 June 2009). "De Haan reveals secrets of success". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  6. ^ a b "'Goudhaan' Foppe maakte Jong Oranje volwassen". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 3 June 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  7. ^ "De Haan: We will be a surprise package". Oceania Football Confederation. 26 August 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  8. ^ De Haan terug bij Heerenveen Archived 12 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine – De Telegraaf (in Dutch)
  9. ^ "Foppe de Haan interim-trainer sc Heerenveen na vertrek Lodeweges - NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl". www.nu.nl. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  10. ^ Editorial, Reuters. "Kramer hat-trick seals derby win for Feyenoord". reuters.com. Retrieved 6 July 2018. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)[dead link]