Ruud Brood

Ruud Brood
	Brood in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	19 October 1962 (age 61)
Place of birth	Gorinchem, Netherlands
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	TOP Oss (manager)
Youth career
	SVW
	Unitas
1973–1983	Feyenoord
Senior career*
Years	Team
1983–1985	Feyenoord
1985–1987	RBC
1987–1989	Den Bosch
1989–1990	Willem II
1990–1998	NAC
Total
Managerial career
1997–2004	NAC (youth coach)
2004–2006	Helmond Sport
2006–2007	Heracles
2008–2012	RKC
2012–2013	Roda JC
2014–2015	NEC
2015–2018	PSV (assistant manager)
2019	NAC
2020–2022	ADO Den Haag
2023–	TOP Oss
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ruud Brood (born 19 October 1962) is a Dutch football manager and a former player who is the manager of TOP Oss.

Football career

Player

Brood was born in Gorinchem. After joining the Feyenoord youth academy from hometown amateur side Unitas, Brood was not able to break into Feyenoord's senior squad. He then served RBC (1985–1987), FC Den Bosch (1987–1989), Willem II Tilburg (1989–1990) and NAC Breda (1990–1998).

With Den Bosch, he finished 7th in the 1987–88 Eredivisie season and that won him a place in Rinus Michels' preliminary Euro 1988 squad. Unfortunately, he did not make the final squad which went on to win the Euro 1988 title.^[1]

Manager

He previously coached Helmond Sport,^[2] the second team of NAC Breda, Heracles Almelo,^[3] RKC Waalwijk and Roda JC Kerkrade.^[4] He was appointed manager of relegated NEC in 2014^[5] and immediately led the club back to the Eredivisie.^[6] In summer 2015 he became assistant to Phillip Cocu at PSV Eindhoven.^[7]