Jan Van Winckel

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Jan Van Winckel
Personal information
Full name Jan Van Winckel
Date of birth (1974-03-26) 26 March 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Duffel, Belgium
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Al-Ahli Saudi (Technical Advisor)
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1994–2000 University of Leuven (head-coach)
1994–2000 Stade Leuven (assistant manager)
2000–2002 KV Mechelen (assistant manager)
2002–2003 Al-Hilal Saudi (assistant manager)
2003–2004 United Arab Emirates (assistant manager)
2005–2006 United Arab Emirates U23
2006–2008 Belgium national football team (scout)
2006–2011 Club Brugge KV (assistant manager)
2011–2012 Beerschot AC (assistant manager)
2012–2014 Al-Ahli Saudi (technical director)
2014–2015 Olympique de Marseille (assistant manager)
2015–2018 Saudi Arabian Football Federation (technical director)
2019–2022 United Arab Emirates Football Association (Senior technical Consultant)
2022– Al-Ahli Saudi (technical advisor)

Jan Van Winckel (born March 26, 1974) is a Belgian football coach, UEFA and AFC Pro License Instructor and a FIFA Technical Expert. He is senior technical consultant at the United Arab Emirates Football Association and technical advisor of Al-Ahli Saudi.

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Van Winckel holds a UEFA Pro-licence and graduated with a Master in Sport Sciences and a Master in Business Economics from the University of Leuven. He remains faculty of the Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group [1] and is the author of various book and academic articles [2]

Van Winckel was Assistant Coach at Al-Hilal Saudi in 2004. He held the same role at the national team of the United Arab Emirates in 2005.

In 2002, he was at the heart of Belgium's footballing renaissance with Michel Sablon, Marc Van Geersom, Werner Helsen, and Bob Browaeys. [3]

At Olympique de Marseille, Van Winckel acted as Marcelo Bielsa's right hand and first team assistant. [4]

After resigning at Olympique de Marseille, Van Winckel became the technical director of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation in 2015. As technical director, Van Winckel led the Saudi Arabian football team to the World Cup in Russia in 2018. [5]

In 2019, Jan Van Winckel signed as a senior technical consultant to the United Arab Emirates Football Association. He set up the UAE FA 2nd and 3rd division and has launched projects to privatise football clubs in the United Arab Emirates. In 2022, he extended his contract.

In 2022, Van Winckel signed an agreement with Al-Ahli Saudi as technical advisor. He was technical director at the club in 2014-2015 and became vice-champions of Asia. [6]

Career

As Player

As Coach

As Technical Director

Others

Honours

Bibliography

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