Rob Reekers
| Rob Reekers | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Robert Reekers | |
| birthday | May 7, 1966 | |
| place of birth | Enschede , the Netherlands | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| KVV Losser | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| -1982 | KVV Losser | |
| 1982-1985 | FC Twente II | |
| 1985-1986 | ASC Schöppingen | |
| 1986-1995 | VfL Bochum | 244 (8) |
| 1995-2000 | FC Gütersloh | 90 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1988-1989 | Netherlands | 4 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2000-2003 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (assistant coach) | |
| 2003-2004 | FC Gutersloh 2000 | |
| 2005 | FC Twente (A-2) | |
| 2006-2008 | SuS city wages | |
| 2008-2009 | Neftschi PFK (assistant trainer) | |
| 2009–2012 | FC Augsburg (assistant coach) | |
| 2012-2015 | Hertha BSC (assistant coach) | |
| 2015 | SC Paderborn 07 (Assistant Trainer) | |
| 2017-2018 | SuS city wages | |
| 2018-2020 | SpVgg Vreden | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Robert "Rob" Reekers (born May 7, 1966 in Enschede ) is a Dutch football coach . As a defender , he played for VfL Bochum in the German Bundesliga for nine years . He played four times for the Dutch national team .
Club career
Youth in Twente
Rob Reekers grew up in the twentchen village Losser directly on the German border; At the age of eight he became a member of the local football club KVV Losser , where he was “shaped for my later football career”. Above all, he benefited from the fact that “we played there against older children from the age of twelve, so we always had to give one hundred percent.” When he was fifteen, his coach let him appear in the KVV first team. After a few games in the amateur league, however, he broke his ankle and was only used again towards the end of the 1981/82 season. Nevertheless, he was also appointed to a Twente regional team.
He received an offer from FC Twente , in whose second team he changed. Here he was the youngest player under coach Epi Drost . The team played in a league for reserve teams of Dutch professional clubs; Within this system, the Enscheders were promoted to first class in 1983. The 17-year-old Reekers became team captain of these eleven and made his first international experience in the youth national team.
Move to Germany
After three years in which he waited in vain for a contract for the professional team, he moved to Germany to ASC Schöppingen in the Oberliga Westfalen . The successful 1985/86 season was completed by the ASC as Westphalian champions, but failed in the promotion round to the second division. Reekers was voted the best player of the season and, like his Dutch team-mate Bennie Brinkman , was appointed to the Westphalian selection, which won the country cup .
Bundesliga professional in Bochum
The VfL Bochum took him then in his Bundesliga squad. On the first day of the 1986/87 season , he made his debut against 1. FC Köln ; In this game on August 9, 1986, the central defender got - mostly as a man hit - his first of a total of 35 yellow cards in German professional football (twice he had to go into the dressing room prematurely with yellow / red, once with red). He scored his first Bundesliga goal for VfL a year later; he contributed the third goal to the 5-0 win against KSC . In this 1987/88 season , Reekers achieved one of the greatest successes in the club's history with VfL: the DFB Cup final . On May 28, 1988, VfL lost 1-0 in the Olympiastadion Berlin with a goal from Lajos Détári against Eintracht Frankfurt . For Reekers it was "one of the most beautiful experiences of my entire football career."
In the 1992/93 season, Reekers received seven yellow cards in 34 games; VfL rose to the second division after 22 years . After the direct resurgence Reekers could not play for a long time because of a back injury; he only returned to the pitch on matchday 19, but could not prevent Bochum's second relegation within two years. On the last day of the match he scored his last goal in the VfL jersey - an own goal in a 2-2 draw at the Wildparkstadion for Karlsruher SC . In total, Reekers made 219 Bundesliga and 25 second division games for VfL Bochum.
Career finale in Gütersloh
After the descent of VfL Bochum, Reekers moved to the regional division FC Gütersloh , where he was still active for five years. With the Ostwestfalen he rose to the second division in his first season , in which the club was placed in the top five for almost the entire season in his second professional season. At the end of the 1997/98 season , only four points were missing for promotion to the elite class. Three points were missing in the following season to stay in the league. Reekers and FC had to return to the Regionalliga.
Reekers acquired his coaching license during his time in Gütersloh and stayed with the Ostwestfalen in the third division, but was no longer only active as a player, but also as a manager and assistant coach to Gerhard Kleppinger . But in the current season, the FC had to file for bankruptcy; Kleppinger and Reekers became unemployed.
National team
Reekers played four times under bond coach Thijs Libregts him in 1988 and 1989 in the national team . His first appearance was at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on November 16, 1988. In addition to Reekers, René Eijkelkamp , Pieter Huistra and Fred Rutten made their debut in this friendly game, which ended 1-0 for Italy , alongside established national players such as Hans van Breukelen , Ronald Koeman and Frank Rijkaard or Marco van Basten . In two other games Reekers was substituted on; in his last match, a 1-0 loss to Brazil on December 20, 1989, he played 90 minutes again. After this game, Libregts was replaced as Bondscoach; under Leo Beenhakker , who trained the team for the World Cup finals , Reekers was no longer appointed to the Elftal. Today he is one of six Dutch internationals who never played in the Eredivisie ; the other five are Jordi Cruyff , Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink , Wim Hofkens , Tim Krul and Willi Lippens .
Trainer
Three months after the bankruptcy of FC Gütersloh, Gerd Kleppinger started as a coach at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ; as assistant coach he brought Reekers to the Lower Rhine. While the head coach changed (followed Kleppinger Dragoslav Stepanovic , to "Stepi" followed Aleksandar Ristić ) remained Reekers three years assistant coach of the "clover", but announced in 2003 to serve as head coach to succeed his old club, FC Gütersloh 2000 to go . For two years he coached the team in the Oberliga Westfalen, after which his contract was not extended. He went back to Enschede, where he coached the A2 youth team of the FC Twente / Heracles Almelo game community and set up a football school in which, following the example of Wiel Coervers , young talents are trained. Since 2006 he has been the coach of SuS Stadtlohn , with whom he competed in the new Westphalia League in 2008.
In September 2008 he gave up this position to go to Azerbaijan together with Hans-Jürgen Gede . As an assistant coach at the first division club Neftschi PFK from Baku , he received a two-year contract. In March 2009 Gede was sacked after only five wins in 15 games.
Reekers worked from the end of June 2009 to the end of June 2012 as an assistant coach under Jos Luhukay at FC Augsburg . For the 2012/13 season he moved with him to Hertha BSC . On February 5, 2015, he was released together with Markus Gellhaus and Luhukay. From the 2015/16 season he was under contract as an assistant coach at SC Paderborn. Here he was released from his duties on October 6, 2015 together with head coach Markus Gellhaus. From September 19, 2017 to June 30, 2018, Rob Reekers trained again for the Westphalia league team SuS Stadtlohn . From July 1, 2018, he was a coach at SpVgg Vreden , also a Westphalian league team with whom he was promoted to the Oberliga Westfalen in 2020.
From the 2020/21 season he will be the sporting director of his former club FC Gütersloh in the Oberliga Westfalen.
Web links
- VfL legends: Rob Reekers
- Rob Reekers in the database of weltfussball.de
- Rob Reekers in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rob Reekers - Mijn tijd bij KVV Losser Website of the KVV Losser. Archived from the original on November 7, 2008 ; Retrieved April 18, 2009 .
- ↑ 01-12-2005: Rob Reekers nieuwe trainer A2 , report on the FC Twente website, viewed on May 25, 2009
- ↑ Stadtlohn: Coach Rob Reekers moves to Azerbaijan - Bajorath, Gravermann take over , RevierSport from September 6, 2008, seen on April 16, 2009
- ↑ Neftchi's head coach Hans-Jurgen Gede dismissed ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Hertha BSC: Separation from coach Jos Luhukay , February 5, 2015, accessed on February 5, 2015.
- ↑ Rob Reekers back at SuS at www.muensterlandzeitung.de, accessed on November 25, 2017
- ↑ FC Gütersloh: The Return of Rob Reekers on www.fupa.net, accessed on May 17, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reekers, Rob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reekers, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Enschede |