André Hoekstra

André Hoekstra
Personnel
birthday	April 5, 1962
place of birth	Baarn ,  Netherlands
position	Right midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1988	Feyenoord Rotterdam	181 (66)
1988-1994	RKC Waalwijk	132 (35)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984	Netherlands	1 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-1999	ADO The Hague
2002-2009	Excelsior Rotterdam (Assistant)
2011-2013	Excelsior Rotterdam (Assistant)
1 Only league games are given.

André Hoekstra (born April 5, 1962 in Baarn ) is a Dutch football coach and former professional player. With Feyenoord he won the double of championship and cup as a player in 1984 . In the 2009/10 season he was assistant coach at Excelsior Rotterdam, responsible for the joint second team of Excelsior and Feyenoord.

Club career

Hoekstra began his career at De Zwervers (“The Landstreicher”) and at VV Capelle in Capelle aan den IJssel before moving to Feyenoord. Here he came in the 1981/82 season in the first team, in April 1982 he made his debut in the Eredivisie . In the following season Koko (he got his nickname because of a Frisian former football player named Koko Hoekstra ) conquered a regular place in the right midfield .

For the 1983/84 season coach Thijs Libregts and Johan Cruijff came to Feyenoord; With the two of them, the Rotterdam team wanted to finally break the domination of the Amsterdam AFC Ajax , with which Cruijff had won the championship in the previous two seasons. Even years later, Hoekstra was unable to say which of the two really had the say; In any case, in the field it was Cruijff. The young Hoekstra - incidentally a sports student who was only able to participate in the training of the first team twice a week - learned a lot from the now 36-year-old “King Johan”: “Using the rooms, for example; indicate what one intends to do with a passport; to fit as tightly as possible. ”On the right, Sjaak Troost , Hoekstra and Ruud Gullit rolled in their positions; Cruijff ensured order in the game: the reinforcement had its effect. Of the first six league games, Feyenoord won five and drew once; after that, however, there was a bitter defeat at Ajax with 2: 8. In the second half of the season, however, they beat their rivals 4-1, alongside Cruijff, Gullit and Henk Duut , Hoekstra also scored one of the goals. And at the end of the season, Feyenoord was ahead: with five points ahead of PSV and six ahead of Ajax, the Rotterdam champions were; Hoekstra had scored 19 goals in 33 games, Peter Houtman as the best striker 20, Gullit 15, Cruiff 11. In the cup final they beat Fortuna Sittard and won the KNVB Beker for the sixth time .

Cruijff ended his active career after this season; without him, Feyenoord was ousted from the top by PSV and Ajax. Hoekstra was able to reach third place three times with Feyenoord. In his last season in Rotterdam 1987/88 he scored another ten goals in 20 appearances, but the team was only sixth in the championship this season. Hoekstra also flourished in the UEFA Cup , scoring three goals in six games. Feyenoord reached the second round for the first time since 1982; In the first leg against Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Hoekstra scored the equalizer after falling 2-0, but in the second leg they were eliminated by a goal from Falko Götz .

For the 1988/89 season, Hoekstra moved to RKC Waalwijk , which had just - with Hoekstra's former teammate Stanley Brard - risen to the Eredivisie for the first time. With the club from North Brabant he achieved good midfield positions in the table in the following years. In 1994 he ended his active career here.

National team

In the spring of 1984, Bondscoach Kees Rijvers received several rejections from regular players. The Netherlands missed out on European Championship qualification by one goal in December after Spain won their last game 12-1 in Malta , and the shock was still deep. What was supposed to serve as preparation for the EM had become an unimportant friendly game; Hoekstra was one of the substitutes Rijvers called up for the March 14, 1984 game against Denmark . In Amsterdam, however, the embarrassment team did nothing. Wim Kieft and René van der Gijp created the 2-0 half-time lead. After the break, Hoekstra's club-mate Houtman increased to 3-0; Hoekstra scored the 4-0 in the 59th minute. Houtman and van der Gijp each produced the final score of 6: 0. Hoekstra later remembers the match: “Before that I was glad that I was allowed to play at all. Scoring a goal turned out to be even nicer. ”The Danish team then reached the semi-finals at the European Championships in France , where they were only eliminated after a penalty shoot-out against the Spaniards.

The next game of the Elftal took place in October in the World Cup qualification . Hoekstra was not considered again; the match against Denmark was his only appearance in Oranje .

Trainer

Hoekstra became a coach after his playing days. He started as an assistant coach at RBC Roosendaal before moving to ADO Den Haag in the same role . There he took over the position of head coach in the 1987/88 season when Mark Wotte moved to FC Utrecht . After the 1998/99 season he went to Excelsior Rotterdam as a trainer , where he has been working in the youth field ever since. In the 2009/10 season he is responsible for the B-team, which for the first time since the beginning of the season consists of players from Excelsior and Feyenoord.

successes

• Dutch champion 1984 (with Feyenoord)
• KNVB Cup winner 1984 (with Feyenoord)

Web links

• Player portrait at FR-Fanatic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ De roes van de Koning van de Kluts , De Volkskrant of April 21, 1999
2. ↑ 'Ruimtes used bijvoorbeeld, door middel van een pass aangeven wat je bedoelt, zo hard mogelijk fit.' De roes van de Koning van de Kluts , De Volkskrant of April 21, 1999
3. ↑ Hoekstra's European Cup statistics ( Memento from August 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at Voetbalstats.nl
4. ↑ Feyenoord - Bayer Leverkusen (November 25, 1987) at lunaticnews.nl
5. ↑ “In the first instance what ik blij dat ik mee likes to do. Een doelpunt maken, bleek real nog veel mooier te zijn. “ Eén keer in Oranje: André Hoekstra ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), OnsOranje website of the KNVB from December 10, 2008
6. ^ Trainer of ADO Den Haag ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the club's website