John van den Brom

John van den Brom
John van den Brom, 2016
Personnel
birthday	4th October 1966
place of birth	Amersfoort ,  Netherlands
size	190 cm
position	Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1972-1984	APWC
1984-1986	AFC Quick 1890
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986-1993	Vitesse Arnhem	225 (80)
1993-1995	Ajax Amsterdam	44 0(7)
1995-1996	İstanbulspor	22 0(3)
1996-2000	Vitesse Arnhem	99 (13)
2001-2003	BV De Graafschap	42 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1990-1993	Netherlands	2 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2004	VV Bennekom
2004-2007	Ajax Amsterdam II
2007-2010	AGOVV Apeldoorn
2010-2011	ADO The Hague
2011–2012	Vitesse Arnhem
2012-2014	RSC Anderlecht
2014-2019	AZ Alkmaar
2019–	FC Utrecht
1 Only league games are given.

John van den Brom (born October 4, 1966 in Amersfoort ) is a Dutch football coach who has been a coach at FC Utrecht since the 2019/20 season . As a player he was twice Dutch champion with Ajax Amsterdam ; In 1990 he made two appearances in the national team .

Club career

Van den Brom began his career with the amateurs of APWC in Amersfoort and switched to AFC Quick 1890, also an amateur club in Amersfoort, as a teenager. He made his professional debut in 1986 with Vitesse Arnheim in the Eerste Divisie , the second Dutch league, in a 3-1 win at FC Eindhoven . With Vitesse, the defensive midfielder rose to the Eredivisie in 1989 . In 1990 and 1992, the team qualified for the UEFA Cup and reached the round of 16 ; van den Brom was used in all games and scored four goals, including the winning goal in the 1-0 win against KV Mechelen in 1992, which brought Vitesse into the round of 16 against Real Madrid .

After seven years in Arnhem, during which he scored 80 goals in 225 games, he accepted an offer from coach Louis van Gaal to join Ajax Amsterdam in 1993 . There he should succeed Wim Jonk , who went to Inter Milan . In his first year at AFC Ajax, he made 27 Eredivisie games and made five European appearances . But in the following season, returning Frank Rijkaard took over the position in which van den Brom should play, so that he was only used in 17 games in the Eredivisie and not at all in the Champions League. In both seasons he was Dutch champion and Supercup winner and in 1995 he also won the Champions League and the World Cup .

For the 1995/96 season he went to the Turkish first division club Istanbulspor , only to return to his first professional club in Arnhem a year later. With Vitesse he completed another four and a half seasons in the Eredivisie and came to an additional five appearances in the UEFA Cup. When he lost his regular place, he moved to De Graafschap during the winter break of 2000/01 , where he let his career come to an end in 2003 - after 432 league games.

National team

In his first period at Vitesse, the two international A matches that van den Brom played for the KNVB fell. In December 1990, bond coach Rinus Michels appointed him to the squad for the European Championship qualifier at the Ta 'Qali Stadium against Malta . In the 8-0 win on December 19, 1990, in which Marco van Basten scored five goals, he came on in the 66th minute for Ruud Gullit when the score was 7-0. He then sat again, in the 1991 European Championship qualifier against Finland in Helsinki , on the Elftal bench , but he was not called into the squad for the European Championship .

It was not until 1993, when Dick Advocaat had taken over the position of bond coach, that he was returned to the Oranje squad. In the World Cup qualification , the Dutch competed on March 24, 1993 in Utrecht against San Marino . Advocaat started with Erik Meijer and Regi Blinker, two debutants, and Marc Overmars , John de Wolf and van den Brom, three players who only made their second international match; after the break, Ronald de Boer also made his debut in Orange . After less than three minutes of play, Van den Brom scored the first goal in his second and last international game to win the Dutch “second choice” 6-0.

Trainer

After his professional career, van den Brom initially stayed as chief scout for De Graafschap in Doetinchem. He then coached an amateur team from Bennekom before returning to AFC Ajax on April 29, 2004. Together with former Ajax goalkeeper Fred Grim , he took over from Marco van Basten and John van 't Schip , who joined the national team, looking after Ajax's youth. In 2007 he started his first coaching position in a professional league at AGOVV Apeldoorn in the Eerste Divisie . After he was the first first division team to look after ADO Den Haag in the 2010/11 Eredivisie season , he moved to his old club Vitesse Arnheim in 2011 . He led this to seventh place and thus into the Europa League qualification . When Arnheim started there, however, van den Brom was already the coach of RSC Anderlecht , who had bought him from his contract for around 500,000 euros during the summer break. At the beginning of his tenure, he first led the reigning Belgian champions into the Champions League group stage .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Game statistics at voetbalstats.nl
2. ↑ Setup of the game  ( 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. at the KNVB  
3. ↑ Match dates at voetbalstats.nl
4. ↑ John van den Brom nieuwe trainer Vitesse  ( 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. , Association website of SBV Vitesse from June 30, 2011  
5. ↑ Kicker Champions League special issue 12/13, p. 77

Web links

• Player profile at the KNVB
• Van den Brom, Grim are new Young Ajax coaches , short portrait at Ajax USA
• European cup statistics at voetbalstats.nl