Arjan van der Laan

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Arjan van der Laan
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Personal information
Full name Arjan van der Laan
Date of birth (1969-11-10) 10 November 1969 (age 53)
Place of birth Nieuwkoop, Netherlands
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 RKSV Altior (manager)
Youth career
SV Nieuwkoop
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1992 ARC
1992–1999 Sparta Rotterdam 213 (54)
1999–2002 Twente 93 (14)
2002–2004 ADO Den Haag 44 (8)
2004–2006 Dordrecht 75 (12)
Managerial career
2013 Sparta Rotterdam (caretaker)
2013–2014 Sparta Rotterdam (caretaker)
2015 Lisse
2015–2016 Netherlands Women
2019–2020 TEC
2020– RKSV Altior
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Arjan van der Laan (born 10 November 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder. He is the current head coach of the seventh-tier Tweede Klasse club RKSV Altior from Langeraar.

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Early life

Van der Laan was born in Nieuwkoop and started playing football at the age of six, at local club SV Nieuwkoop. [2] [3] After advancing to the senior team, he wanted to play at a higher level, and applied to ARC from Alphen aan den Rijn, who were competing at the highest amateur level. [2]

Playing career

Sparta Rotterdam

While playing at ARC, Van der Laan was scouted by Sparta Rotterdam, and at the age of 22, he made the switch to professional football. [2] [3] In his first season, he was used sporadically, [3] but from the 1993–94 season on, he was a regular in the midfield of the Eredivisie side. [1] [2] In 1996, Van der Laan reached the final of the KNVB Cup with Sparta, which they lost 5–2 against PSV. [2] [3]

Twente

In the summer of 1999, Van der Laan was transferred to FC Twente. He immediately became an important player for the team, and achieved the biggest honour of his playing career by winning the 2000–01 KNVB Cup. [2] [3] As a result, FC Twente played in the UEFA Cup in the next season, where they were knocked out in the second round by Grasshoppers, losing 5–6 on aggregate despite two goals from Van der Laan. [3] Nevertheless, he considers playing in these European matches "a great experience." [2] [3]

ADO Den Haag

In July 2002, Van der Laan moved to Eerste Divisie side ADO Den Haag. [1] His first season was a success, as ADO became champions and achieved promotion to the Eredivisie. [2] In the following Eredivisie season, however, Van der Laan experienced internal strife within the club and expressed a desire to leave ADO. [3]

Dordrecht

On 25 January 2004, it was announced that Van der Laan would be loaned to Eerste Divisie club FC Dordrecht for the remainder of the season, with the intention of joining them on a free transfer after the summer break. [4] At the end of the 2005–06 season, he retired from professional football. [2] [3]

Managerial career

Early managerial career

Van der Laan started his managerial career in his last years of playing for FC Dordrecht, coaching various youth teams of ARC. [2] After retiring as a player, he took up a job as youth couth at Sparta Rotterdam. [2] He also had a one-year internship at NEC, after which he qualified for his coaching licence. [2] Eventually, he became assistant manager of Sparta's first team. [2] [3] He served as interim manager twice: first in April 2013 after the dismissal of Michel Vonk, and for a second time in December 2013 after Adrie Bogers was sacked. [5] In total, he managed Sparta for four games. [2] In the summer of 2014, he left Sparta to become a youth coach at FC Utrecht. [5] [2]

Lisse

In December 2014, it was announced that Van der Laan would become the new manager of Topklasse side FC Lisse, starting from the 2015–16 season. [6]

Netherlands Women

After only two months in charge of FC Lisse, [1] on 24 September 2015, it was announced that Van der Laan would succeed Roger Reijners as head coach of the Netherlands women's national football team. [7] [8] He said it was "an honour" to become the national women's coach and that it was "fantastic to contribute" to the development of the team. [7] [8] His first major tournament in charge of the Netherlands was the 2016 Olympic Qualifying Tournament, where the Netherlands competed with Sweden, Norway and Switzerland for a place at the football tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Netherlands finished in second place, with group winner Sweden taking the Olympic ticket.

On 23 December 2016, Van der Laan was sacked by the KNVB, having been in charge of the Netherlands for fifteen months. [9] According to the KNVB, they had "insufficient confidence" Van der Laan would achieve good results with the team at the Women's Euro 2017. [9]

Later managerial career

In 2019, Van der Laan was appointed head coach of TEC alongside Gery Vink. He left the position after one season. Ahead of the 2020–21 season, he has signed a one-year contract as head coach for Sunday Tweede Klasse club RKSV Altior from Langeraar. [10]

Honours

FC Twente
ADO Den Haag

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