Henk Houwaart

This article is about the soccer player and coach Henk Houwaart. His son, also a soccer player, is recorded under Henk Houwaart junior .

Henk Houwaart
Henk Houwaart (1968)
Personnel
Surname	Hendrik Houwaart
birthday	August 31, 1945
place of birth	The Hague ,  Netherlands
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	vv Oranjeplein
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963-1968	ADO	(34)
1967	San Francisco Golden Gate Gales	12 0(9)
1968-1969	FC Twente Enschede	34 0(7)
1969-1975	Club Bruges	170 (25)
1975-1976	Royal Antwerp	3 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1969	Netherlands	1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1977/78	KSV Roeselare
1978/79	Eendracht Aalst
1979-1983	KV Kortrijk
1983/84	Cercle Bruges
1984-1988	Club Bruges
1988	KV Kortrijk
1990/91	Skoda Xanthi
1991-1993	Cercle Bruges
1994	KSV Waregem
1994-2000	KRC Harelbeke
2000	AA Gent
2000/01	Omonia Nicosia
2002/03	Royal Antwerp
2003/04	AEL Limassol
2004/05	Omonia Nicosia
2006/07	VV St. Truiden
2007	FC Knokke
2007	Aris Limassol
2007/08	FC Knokke
since 2008	Club Roeselare
1 Only league games are given.

Hendrik "Henk" Houwaart (born August 31, 1945 in The Hague , Netherlands ; also Henkie Houwaart ) is a naturalized Belgian football coach and former Belgian and Dutch professional player. He was with ADO Den Haag and FC Twente in the Eredivisie and in the Belgian First Division at FC Bruges and Royal Antwerp and made an international match for the Netherlands . As a coach he also celebrated his greatest successes with Club Bruges, with Omonia Nicosia he won the Cypriot championship. In the 2009/10 season he is coach at the lower-class West Flanders Club Roeselare .

Club career

In the Netherlands

Houwaart comes from a football-loving family whose members have played a leading role in club life since the Haagschen vv Oranjeplein was founded in 1936. His father Jac.Houwaart was the treasurer of the small amateur club, named after a street in the Schilderswijk district of Hague , where Henk began his career as a youth player. With the VVO he became 4th class champion in 1963. The midfield all-rounder then went to ADO Den Haag, where he matured to become a regular under Austrian coach Ernst Happel . With ADO he played in the front regions of the Eredivisie table. In 1967, the ADO players spent their free time in the United States , where they played for the San Francisco Golden Gate Gales in the United Soccer Association's USA league . Houwaart was the second best scorer in the competition with nine goals and two assists in twelve games. On June 3, 1968, Houwaart celebrated the first KNVB Cup success in club history with ADO : The Hague won the final with a 2-1 win against champions Ajax Amsterdam after they had previously lost the final four times.

After winning the cup with ADO, Houwaart moved to FC Twente . The reason was that he had lost the joy of football after the death of his parents; Ernst Happel was of the opinion that he could find them again in Enschede - and he was right. His radius of action and his technique made him a pillar of the team, both defensively and offensively. In Houwaart's only season with the Tukkers , under coach Kees Rijvers , he made 34 games for Twente, in which he scored seven goals (two of them against his old club). Houwaart was the third-best shooter after Dick van Dijk and Theo Pahlplatz and thus contributed to the fact that the Enscheder finished their best season in the Eredivisie with third place. During this time, his only appearance in the national team fell .

In Belgium

In the following season, Houwaart moved to Belgium for Club Bruges , which for the first time in its history relied on players and coaches from the neighboring country: In addition to Houwaart, Rob Rensenbrink came from DWS Amsterdam and the Dutch old international Frans de Munck came as coach . Houwaard stayed with the club for six years, during which he also experienced the Dutch coaches Leo Canjels and Jaap de Wit , before he was allowed to play again under Ernst Happel in 1974, whom Bruges brought from Seville on Houwaart's recommendation. With the Bruges he won the Belgian Cup in 1970 and the runner-up for three seasons in a row, before the title competition ended in favor of the club in 1973 .

Houwaart was almost 30 when he moved to Royal Antwerp for the 1975/76 season. Coach Guy Thys wanted him as a playmaker for his team, which also included the young Louis van Gaal and the Dane Flemming Lund . But Houwaart's football career was over by October. The RAFC played in the UEFA Cup first leg on October 22nd at Śląsk Wrocław in Wroclaw . Five minutes after the break, Houwaart equalized the 1-1 final score. He injured himself and was replaced a little later. The cruciate ligament rupture turned out to be so severe that he had to end his active career despite months of rehab .

Stations

• vv Oranjeplein (youth)
• ADO (1963–1968)? Games (34 goals) in the Eredivisie
• San Francisco Golden Gate Gales (1967) 12 games (9 goals) in the USA League
• FC Twente Enschede (1968/69); 34 games (7 goals) in the Eredivisie, 3 games (1 goal) in the Dutch Cup competition
• Club Bruges (1969-75); 170 games (25 goals) in the first class, 19 games (1 goal) in the European Cup, 15 games (5 goals) in the Belgian Cup competition
• Royal Antwerp (1975/76), 3 games (0) in the first class, 1 game (1 goal) in the European Cup

National team

Houwaart played four times for the Dutch national youth team. During his time at ADO, he was appointed to the senior national team, but was not used. Only after switching to FC Twente, when he had found his way back to his old form, was he allowed to play in Oranje . Under bond coach Georg Keßler he was on April 16, 1969 in De Kuip in the starting line-up of the Elftal against Czechoslovakia . The friendly game on a Wednesday evening, between two World Cup qualifying matches , was an opportunity for Keßler to test alternatives. In addition to Houwaart, his Enscheder teammate Epi Drost , Nico Rijnders , Addy Brouwers and Sjaak Roggeveen made their debut , who ensured the 2-0 victory with two late goals; the only veteran in the team was Rinus Israël . Houwaart played a decent game against Karol Dobiaš in right midfield . In the next match, the World Cup qualifier against Poland , Houwaart was again on the bench, but was not used. After moving to Belgium - where he later succeeded in Bruges with his midfield partners from the match against the ČSSR, Wietse Veenstra and Nico Rijnders - the national coach lost track of him, also because in Feijenoord team captain Wim Jansen had a strong player as a regular was available at his position. The match on April 16, 1969 was Houwaart's only international match.

Trainer

After the consequences of his cruciate ligament rupture finally forced him to give up playing football in 1976, Houwaart immediately began to establish himself as a coach. He began the coaching career with the third division club KSV Roeselare and Eendracht Aalst , before he was given the task in 1979 of leading the first division relegated KV Kortrijk to promotion, which he managed within one season. He stayed in Courtrai for another three seasons before moving back to Bruges in 1983. His new employer was initially not the club , but local rival Cercle . When it became known before the end of the season, and of all things before the Bruges Derby , that he had signed for the new season with the club, he was released early. At his old club he succeeded his former Oranje bond coach Georg Keßler in the 1984/85 season . With refreshing attack football around the Ceulemans - Degryse - van der Elst player axis , Houwaart formed a team that was able to build on the successes of his playing days: in the first two years under Houwaart's leadership, the club finished the league as runner-up and won the 1986 cup; In 1988 the club celebrated its sixth championship. Previously, the Bruges had reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup this season after eliminating Borussia Dortmund , among others . When it became foreseeable that the successes in Houwaart's fifth year as a coach at the club would not continue, he was fired and Georges Leekens took over.

For a short time he switched again to his former employer KV Kortrijk, from where he went to Skoda Xanthi in Greece ; here he sat on the bench for 32 games from September 1990. In 1991 he returned to Belgium - again to Bruges, again to Cercle. He stayed a little more than two seasons this time with the smaller Bruges club, but fell short of expectations with places in the midfield, especially since the local rival was able to celebrate another championship in 1992. After a weak start to the season, he was released in November 1993. After the unsuccessful attempt as a "firefighter" to protect KSV Waregem from relegation from the Eerste class shortly before the end of the season, he went to the second division team KRC Harelbeke in the summer of 1994 , which he entered the top division for the first time in a year led. He established the club in the first class and achieved the best placement in 1998 with fifth place. In 2000 he moved to league rivals KAA Gent , but had to vacate the coaching chair after a bitter 6-0 home defeat against Ajax Amsterdam in the UEFA Cup a few weeks later.

In November 2000, Houwaart succeeded Arie Haan as coach of the Cypriot first division club Omonia Nicosia . With the team around top scorer Rainer Rauffmann , he immediately won the Cypriot championship, but was dismissed in November 2001. In the 2002 season he took over from Wim de Coninck as coach at Antwerp FC and saved the team from relegation in 16th place. After a twelfth place in the following season, his time as a trainer at the RAFC ended. He went back to Cyprus, where he was in charge of AEL Limassol from November 2003 until the end of the season and then again Omonia until November 2005, with whom he won the Cypriot Cup and the Supercup this time. In November 2006 he committed first division club VV St. Truiden , where he was dismissed in April 2007. He then took care of the amateur club FC Knokke, interrupted by a two-month engagement with Aris Limassol from Cyprus, which he ended when he learned that his son was terminally ill. Since November 2008, Houwaart has been at his 16th coaching station at the fifth division Club Roeselare - but dreams of being able to take over a first division again soon.

Stations

• KSV Roeselare (1977/78)
• Eendracht Aalst (1978/79)
• KV Kortrijk (1979–1983)
• Cercle Brugge (1983/84)
• Club Bruges (1984–1988)
• KV Kortrijk (1988)
• Skoda Xanthi (1990/91)
• Cercle Bruges (1991-1993)
• KSV Waregem (1994)
• KSV Harelbeke (1994-2000)
• AA Gent (2000)
• Omonia Nicosia (2000/01)
• Royal Antwerp (2002/03)
• AEL Limassol (2003/04)
• Omonia Nicosia (2004/05)
• VV Sint-Truiden (2006/07)
• FC Knokke (2007)
• Aris Limassol (2007)
• FC Knokke (2007/08)
• Club Roeselare (since 2008)

successes

as a player

• Belgian champion: 1973 (and runner-up in 1970, 1971, 1972; with Club Bruges )
• Belgian Cup Winner: 1970 (with Club Brugge)
• Dutch Cup Winner: 1968 (and finalist 1964, 1966; with ADO Den Haag )

as a trainer

• Belgian champion: 1988 (and runner-up 1985, 1986; with Club Bruges )
• Belgian Cup Winner: 1986 (with Club Brugge)
• Belgian Supercup winner: 1986, 1988 (with Club Bruges)
• Cypriot champion: 2001 (with Omonia Nicosia )
• Cypriot Cup Winner: 2005 (with Omonia Nicosia; and 2004 finalist with AEL Limassol )
• Cypriot Supercup winner: 2005 (with Omonia Nicosia)

Private

Houwaart lives in Knesselare with his third wife Dorine and their younger son . His older son Henk Jr. also became a football player and was active for Club Bruges , Germinal Beerschot and Royal Francs Borains . He died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 41.

Web links

• Eén keer in Oranje: Henk Houwaart (ndl.)
• Biography at Club Bruges (Dutch) / ( French )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile at Club Bruges ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2010 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. 
2. ^ Association history ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2012 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. on the website of vv Oranjeplein 
3. ↑ vv Oranjeplein , De Haagse Voetbalhistorie
4. ^ The Year in American Soccer - 1967 , Steve Holroyd; sighted on October 26, 2009
5. ↑ Entry Henk Houwaart , in: Gijs Eijsink, Top 50 van FC Twente , FC 50 BV en Gijs Eijsink Teksten Et Cetera, Enschede 2015, ISBN 978-90-822235-1-4
6. ↑ Player statistics on the FC Twente website
7. ↑ Player profile on the RAFC Museum website
8. ↑ Portrait ( Memento of the original from November 24th, 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. on the Skoda Xanthi website, viewed October 27, 2009 
9. ↑ Cyprus Cup 2004/05 , rsssf.com
10. ↑ ^{a b} As he is een God, waarom laat hij dan de varkens leven? , from Nieuwsblad , on the Club Brugge fan website Blue-Army.com on November 22nd, 2008, sighted on October 28th, 2009
11. ↑ Henk Houwaart (63) blijft also as trainer bezeten van voetbal , Nieuwsblad-SportWereld from November 15, 2008, seen on October 27, 2009
12. ↑ canteens; Henk Houwaart Jr. , De Volkskrant of March 30, 2008, viewed October 26, 2009