Dirk Heesen

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Dirk Heesen
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Heesen with ADO Den Haag in 2017
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-09-15) 15 September 1969 (age 54)
Place of birth Utrecht, Netherlands
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Beerschot (Assistant-coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1990 Utrecht 5 (0)
1989–1990 → Wageningen (loan) 25 (0)
1990–1992 Wageningen 70 (5)
1992–1998 FC Den Haag 249 (32)
1998–2002 FC Oss 119 (9)
Total468(46)
International career
1992 Netherlands U21 0 (0)
1992 Netherlands Olympic 1 (0)
Managerial career
2010–2012 FC Oss
2012 Team VVCS
2015-16 Queens Park Rangers (Assistant-coach)
2017-2020 ADO Den Haag (Assistant- coach)
2019 ADO Den Haag (caretaker)
2023- Beerschot (Assistant- Coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dirk Heesen (born 15 September 1969) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is assistant coach of Challenger Pro League side Beerschot.

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Playing career

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

Coaching career

After retiring in 2002, Heesen began coaching at FC Oss and continued in an assisting role until 2010, when he was appointed their manager. Heesen remained as Oss' manager until 2012, winning them promotion from the Topklasse Sunday League in the process. In 2012, he was head coach of Team VVCS. Heesen then worked as assistant of 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] Heesen 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] After leaving ADO, Heesen became assistant manager alongside Dirk Kuyt at Challenger Pro League team K Beerschot VA.

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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.
  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.
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