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Dirk Heesen

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Dirk Heesen
Dirk Heesen in 2017
Personal information
Full name Dirk Heesen
Date of birth (1969-09-15) September 15, 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Utrecht, Netherlands
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
ADO Den Haag
(assistant coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1990 FC Utrecht 5 (0)
1989–1990FC Wageningen (loan) 25 (0)
1990–1992 FC Wageningen 70 (5)
1992–1998 FC Den Haag/ADO Den Haag 249 (32)
1998–2002 TOP Oss 119 (9)
Total 468 (46)
Managerial career
2010–2012 FC Oss
2012 Team VVCS
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dirk Heesen is a Dutch association football coach and former player who is currently assistant coach at ADO Den Haag.

Playing career

Heesen played for FC Utrecht, FC Wageningen, ADO Den Haag and FC Oss in a career which spanned from 1988 to 2002.

Coaching career

After retiring in 2002, he began coaching at FC Oss, and continued in an assisting role until 2010, when he was appointed their manager. He remained as Oss' manager until 2012, winning them promotion from the Topklasse Sunday League in the process. In 2012, he was the head coach of Team VVCS. He then worked as assistant manager at Willem II from 2013 to 2015. He worked in China in 2015 with Guangzhou Evergrande as a coach before moving, on 15 December 2015, to Queens Park Rangers as the First Team Coach.[1][2] He left that role in November 2016,[3] and rejoined ADO Den Haag, where he played in the '90s, as an assistant coach in February 2017.[4]

References

  1. ^ "DIRK HEESEN JOINS QPR AS FIRST TEAM COACH". Queens Park Rangers. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  2. ^ Fifield, Dominic (23 January 2016). "Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes education will be key to success at QPR". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2016. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "QPR: David Oldfield and Dirk Heesen leave Loftus Road roles". BBC. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  4. ^ "ADO DEN HAAG VOEGT DIRK HEESEN TOE AAN TECHNISCHE STAF" [ADO DEN HAAG ADDS DIRK HEESEN TO TECHNICAL STAFF] (in Dutch). ADO Den Haag. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.