Wim Koevermans
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Full name | Wilhelmus Jacobus Koevermans | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 28 June 1960 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Vlaardingen, Netherlands | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1978–1980 | FC Vlaardingen | 43 | (6) | ||||||||||
1980–1988 | Fortuna Sittard | 255 | (37) | ||||||||||
1988–1990 | FC Groningen | 42 | (5) | ||||||||||
Total | 340 | (48) | |||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1988 | Netherlands | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1990–1993 | FC Groningen (Assistant manager) | ||||||||||||
1993–1994 | FC Groningen | ||||||||||||
1994–1996 | RBC Roosendaal | ||||||||||||
1996–1997 | NEC Nijmegen | ||||||||||||
1998–2001 | MVV Maastricht | ||||||||||||
2002–2008 | Netherlands (Youth coach) | ||||||||||||
2008–2012 | Ireland (High Performance Director) | ||||||||||||
2010 | Republic of Ireland U21 (Temporary) | ||||||||||||
2012–2014 | India | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Wilhelmus ("Wim") Jacobus Koevermans (born 28 June 1960 in Vlaardingen, South Holland), a former football central defender from The Netherlands, who earned one cap for the Netherlands national football team. He was a member of the Dutch team that won the European title at the 1988 European Football Championship in West Germany, although he didn't play under manager Rinus Michels.
Koevermans played for Fortuna Vlaardingen, FC Vlaardingen, Fortuna Sittard, and FC Groningen. He ended his professional career in 1990. After that he became a football manager, who worked for clubs like NEC Nijmegen, RBC Roosendaal and MVV Maastricht.[1] He was the International High Performance Director of the FAI until he was appointed the coach of India.[2] He resumed his office as the Chief Coach of Indian football team on 1 July 2012.[3] He left the post in October 2014 after India's loss against Palestine.[4]
India[]
Wim Koevermans was the head coach of the Indian National Football Team from the period of 2012 to 2015. He was succeeded by Stephen Constantine.
Coaching Statistics[]
Period | Matches | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win % |
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2012–2015 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 40.0 |
Honours[]
Manager[]
- India
References[]
- ^ "Wim Koevermans" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ "Wim Koevermans appointed new India coach". Chris Punnakkattu Daniel. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
- ^ "Wimp Koevermans announced as the new coach of Indian football team". Live Indian Football. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
- ^ Prasad, Vishnu (2014-11-07). "Heartbreak for Wim". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Dutch footballers
- Netherlands international footballers
- Dutch football managers
- Dutch expatriate football managers
- Eredivisie players
- Eerste Divisie players
- Association football central defenders
- Fortuna Vlaardingen players
- FC Groningen players
- Fortuna Sittard players
- UEFA Euro 1988 players
- UEFA European Championship-winning players
- People from Vlaardingen
- FC Groningen managers
- NEC Nijmegen managers
- RBC Roosendaal managers
- MVV Maastricht managers
- India national football team managers
- Dutch expatriates in India
- Expatriate football managers in India
- Dutch football defender stubs