Lee-Roy Echteld

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Lee-Roy Echteld
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-09-30) 30 September 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Amsterdam, Netherlands
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Jong AZ (head coach)
Youth career
1981–198? Ajax
198?–1988 DWS
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1992 HFC Haarlem 70 (6)
1992–1997 Heerenveen 151 (22)
1997–1998 Cannes 5 (0)
1998 AZ 11 (2)
1998–1999 RKC Waalwijk 27 (3)
1999–2001 Austria Lustenau 20 (0)
2000–2001 → Heracles Almelo (loan) 8 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2011 Blauw-Wit Amsterdam
2013 DVW
2015 Zeeburgia
2018–2019 Paris Saint-Germain B
2022–2024 De Treffers
2023– Netherlands U21 (assistant)
2024– Jong AZ
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lee-Roy Echteld (born 30 September 1968) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Eerste Divisie club Jong AZ. He most notably played for Heerenveen as a midfielder.

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Playing career

Echteld started playing football in youth departments of Ajax and DWS in Amsterdam. [1] He broke through to senior football in 1988 at HFC Haarlem and then played for Heerenveen during a five-year spell. He also played briefly abroad with the French Ligue 1 club Cannes and the Austrian club Austria Lustenau. In 2001, he retired from football at Heracles Almelo. [2] [3] [4]

Echteld also played with the Suriprofs, where he was allowed to participate because of his Surinamese descent. Because his father is of Chinese Surinamese descent, and this was also clearly visible when Echteld was a baby, the Chinese name 'Lee' was added with a dash before 'Roy', which his parents originally wanted to call him. [1]

Managerial career

Echteld became a coach after his playing career and began managing the amateur branch of FC Omniworld. He did an internship at Ajax for the KNVB diploma. In the 2006–07 season he was a youth coach at DoCoS. From 2007, he became active at Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, first as a youth coach and in 2009 as head coach. He then took over as manager of DWV in January 2013. [5] In 2014, he started working as a youth coach at AZ. He took over as manager of Zeeburgia in January 2015, [6] but left that position at the end of 2015, when he was appointed assistant coach of the first team where succeeded Marco van Basten in that position. In the summer of 2018, Echteld left for Paris Saint-Germain to become manager of the reserves competing in the Championnat National 2. [7] In 2019, however, PSG decided to dissolve the second team and Echteld's contract was not renewed. [8]

Echteld was added to the staff of PEC Zwolle in July 2020, where he became responsible for coaching the first-team strikers as well as overseeing the transition of players from under-21 team to first team. [2]

On 5 July 2022, Echteld was appointed the new head coach of Tweede Divisie club De Treffers. [9]

Honours

AZ

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References

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  2. 1 2 Inan, Johan (24 July 2020). "PEC Zwolle voegt veelzijdige Leeroy Echteld toe aan technische staf". De Stentor (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "Vluchtoord voor vergeten voetballers | De Volkskrant". archive.li. 29 February 2020. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "L'inconnu qui entraîne l'équipe réserve du PSG - Le Parisien". archive.li. 29 February 2020. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "DWV in zee met Echteld". Het Amsterdamsche Voetbal (in Dutch). 6 January 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Boegborn, Jurgen (28 January 2015). "Echteld blij om terug te zijn op Zeeburgia". Het Amsterdamsche Voetbal (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Voormalig AZ-assistent Echteld aan de slag als trainer PSG-beloften". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 10 July 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "'AZ heeft het in de jeugdopleiding beter voor elkaar dan PSG'". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 18 July 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Lee-Roy Echteld nieuwe hoofdtrainer". De Treffers (Press release) (in Dutch). 5 July 2022. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "Over Ons". az.nl (in Dutch). AZ Alkmaar . Retrieved 9 February 2021. AZ werd in 1996 kampioen, degradeerde een jaar later, maar keerde in 1998 weer terug onder leiding van trainer Willem van Hanegem.
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