Ernie Brandts

Ernie Brandts
Ernie Brandts, 1978
Personnel
Surname	Ernestus Wilhelmus Johannes Brandts
birthday	3rd February 1956
place of birth	Didam ,  Netherlands
size	187 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
until 1973	VV Sprinkhanen
1973-1974	De Graafschap
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1977	De Graafschap	38 (3)
1977-1986	PSV Eindhoven	252 (23)
1986-1988	Roda Kerkrade	68 (4)
1988-1989	MVV Maastricht	16 (0)
1989-1991	Germinal Ekeren	59 (5)
1991-1992	De Graafschap	20 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1977-1985	Netherlands	28 (5)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1993-1998	Jong PSV
1998-2001	PSV Eindhoven (Co-Tr.)
2002-2004	RKSV Nuenen
2005-2006	FC Volendam
2006-2008	NAC Breda
2009	Rah Ahan
2010–2012	APR FC
2012-2013	Yanga
2014–	FC Dordrecht
1 Only league games are given.

Ernestus "Ernie" Wilhelmus Johannes Brandts (born February 3, 1956 in Didam ) is a Dutch football coach and former national player .

Club career

Brandts, son of the local baker, played as a teenager in his home village of Nieuw-Dijk for the club VV Sprinkhanen ("grasshoppers"). He was discovered there at the age of 17 - according to various statements either by Guus Hiddink or by Piet de Visser , then a scout at De Graafschap . Brandts joined the first division club, initially played in his youth and began his professional career here in 1974. He stayed in Doetinchem for three first division years , and when de Graafschap had to relegate in 1977, he was already so established that he received offers from various first division clubs. Feyenoord , Twente and Go Ahead Deventer were left behind when he signed a contract with PSV Eindhoven .

At PSV he was able to gain a regular place immediately. In his first season in Eindhoven he made all 34 league games and made a significant contribution to the PSV championship. He later said of his debut in Eindhoven: “PSV needed [in front of goalkeeper Jan van Beveren ] someone who could head the balls away. I was that type of guy; tall, with a good header and someone who could take out an opponent. ”He was also an integral part of his team in the UEFA Cup competition . With two goals in the 4-2 win in the quarter-final second leg against 1. FC Magdeburg , he played a major role in PSV winning the title after the successful final against SEC Bastia . In the meantime his career in the national team had also begun.

After three successful years injuries set him back; 1983/84 he played another very good season, but soon he had to surrender again injuries. He himself saw the reason in his ambition - “I should have taken breaks more often,” he says; often it came back too quickly and thus provoked new injuries. In 1986 he was champion again with PSV; but a persistent injury to the Achilles tendon prevented further seasons at the top level. The following season he moved to Roda JC after nine years in Eindhoven and two years later to MVV Maastricht , which he helped prevent relegation from the Eredivisie . In 1989 he turned his back on his native Netherlands and moved to Germinal Ekeren in Belgium . After two seasons in the First Division , Brandts came back to De Graafschap in 1991, where he finally ended his career in early 1992 due to a worn hip joint.

National team

Brandt's good performances at PSV Eindhoven also made bond coach Jan Zwartkruis aware of him. On October 5, 1977, Brandts made his national team debut in a friendly game . In the 63rd minute he was substituted on for Ruud Krol in De Kuip against the Soviet Union . Zwartkruis' successor Ernst Happel appointed him six months later to the squad for the World Cup in Argentina . Brandts benefited here from the fact that Wim Rijsbergen was injured and Wim Suurbier did not find his normal form in the defeat against Scotland . Brandts got his chance in the opening game of the second group stage . And he used it: in his second international match in Córdoba, with his first international goal, he initiated the 5-1 win against the team from Happel's home country Austria . Happel left Brandts in formation; and he caused a curiosity a few days later in the last group game against Italy : he gave the Italians the lead with an own goal in the 19th minute; shortly after half-time, however, he made up for his faux pas and equalized with a long shot. After the Netherlands had won 2-1, he also played 120 minutes in the final against Argentina and was runner-up in the world championship.

Two years later, Brandts took part in the European Championship in Italy . The Netherlands were eliminated in the preliminary round as third in the group. In total he played 28 times for the oranje elftal , scoring five goals. His last use was in September 1985 in a match against Bulgaria in Heerenveen . Coach Leo Beenhakker replaced him in the 1-0 win against Huub Stevens at halftime .

Coaching career

Brandts started at PSV in 1993 as an assistant coach. Here he worked with the coaches Dick Advocaat , Aad de Mos , Bobby Robson and Eric Gerets . After differences with Gerets, with whom he had already played one season at PSV, he left the club and worked for a short time as a businessman in Spain. On his return to the Netherlands, Brandts started as a coach at an amateur club in Nuenen . In 2005, Wim Jonk brought him in charge of the second division club FC Volendam , with whom he reached the playoffs for promotion to the honor division. Only in the semi-finals was Volendam stopped by the NAC Breda - the club to which Brandts then moved. His coaching contract with the honorary division expired in the summer of 2008 and was not renewed, although he brought the team to the cup semi-finals and third place in the championship round .

In July 2009 he became the coach of the Iranian club Rah Ahan . However, he was released in December; At the time, his Tehran team was in 16th and third-last place in the Iranian Pro League . From summer 2010 he coached the top Rwandan club APR FC from Kigali , which he led to the championship in 2011 and 2012. He then coached the first division team Yanga in neighboring Tanzania , with whom he was also able to celebrate the championship in 2013. He was sacked in January 2014 after 50 games, of which the team lost only eight, although Yanga was in first place in the table at that time. The reason was that the team lost 3-0 in a friendly against Yanga's arch-rivals Simba SC . For the 2014/15 season, Brandts took over the position of coach at the newly promoted Eredivisie, FC Dordrecht , but was dismissed in February 2015; his team was at the bottom of the table at the time.

successes

as a player

• two Dutch champions (1978, 1986)
• once UEFA Cup winner (1978)
• Vice World Champion (1978)

as a trainer

• Rwandan champion with APR FC (2011, 2012)
• Tanzanian master with Yanga (2013)

Web links

• Ernie Brandts in the weltfussball.de database
• Statistics of the stakes for the Dutch national team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Didam is given as place of birth at the KNVB. Other sources speak of Nieuw-Dijk , which at that time was a district of Didam.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Johan Derksen, Ernie Brandts, goedzak en morele winnaar , in Voetball international from March 10, 2008, online version ( memento from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) viewed on April 10, 2008
3. ↑ ^{a b} Profile at PSVZone.nl ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed on April 10, 2008 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rob de Bruyn, Van Doetinchem naar Buenos Aires , in: Eindhovens Dagblad of February 27, 2008, online version , viewed on April 10, 2008
5. ^ Ernie Brandts named Iran's Rah Ahan FC coach. (No longer available online.) Presstv.com, June 25, 2009, archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Brandt's Named Rah Ahan Coach. (No longer available online.) Kayhanintl.com, June 27, 2009, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 13, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Brandts presented as Iran's Rah Ahan coach. Tehrantimes.com, July 2, 2009, accessed October 13, 2009 . 
8. ↑ Brandts ontslagen bij Iraanse club ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OnsOranje website of the KNVB from December 17, 2009 
9. ↑ Het avontuur van Ernie Brandts in Rwanda , BN DeStem.nl of March 20, 2011
10. ↑ Brandts kampioen van Rwanda ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OnsOranje website of the KNVB from May 9, 2011 
11. ^ Brandts held in Rwanda , De Telegraaf -Telesport, May 16, 2012
12. ↑ Brandts ziet brood in Roda , De Telegraaf Telesport of December 24, 2013
13. ↑ Ernie Brandts over ontslag bij FC Dordrecht: 'Dit hoort bij het vak van voetbaltrainer' , Omroep Brabant from February 20, 2015.