Marcel Groninger

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Marcel Groninger
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-08-19) 19 August 1970 (age 52)
Place of birth Groningen, Netherlands
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Netherlands U21 (caretaker)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1991 FC Groningen 0 (0)
1991–1997 Gronitas
1997–1998 Appingedam
2000–2002 Achilles 1894
2002–2003 Be Quick 1887
Managerial career
0000–2007 VV Helpman
2008–2013 Be Quick 1887
2013–2016 HHC Hardenberg
2013–2018 FC Groningen (assistant)
2019– Netherlands U21 (assistant)
2020 Netherlands U21 (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marcel Groninger (born 19 August 1970) is a Dutch former footballer and current assistant coach of the Netherlands national under-21 football team. In 2013, Groninger won the national Rinus Michels Award for his coaching of Be Quick 1887. [1]

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Footballer career

Groninger was a youth player of GRC Groningen, where he was scouted by FC Groningen. He then played in FC Groningen youth. In the season of 1990-1991 he was a member of FC Groningen's first squad. [2] [3] He played mostly on the second team that won the championship of the Reserveklasse. [4] Groninger then played for SC Gronitas, [5] VV Appingedam and Achilles 1894. [6]

Manager career

Clubs

Groninger started his coaching career at VV Helpman and in 2008 continued to Be Quick 1887. In his 6th season, Groninger and his team took a Hoofdklasse C championship. Following his achievements that season, on 10 May 2013 Groninger received the Rinus Michels Award as best coach in Dutch amateur soccer. [7]

In July 2013, Groninger became the chief coach of then Topklasse-side HHC Hardenberg and an assistant coach of FC Groningen in the Eredivisie. [3] [8] With FC Groningen, Marcel Groninger won the 2014–15 KNVB Cup. With HHC Hardenberg, Groninger caused havoc when his team beat NEC Nijmegen from the Eredivisie in eight finals of the 2015–16 KNVB Cup. Subsequently, in its first KNVB Cup quarter finals ever, HHC Hardenberg lost 1-0 to AZ Alkmaar. At the conclusion of the 2015–16 season, Groninger left HHC to become the first assistant coach of the new chief coach Ernest Faber. [9] At the end of 2017–18 Groninger left FC Groningen. [10]

Netherlands under-21

In 2019 Groninger became assistant coach of the Netherlands national under-21 football team, again under Ernest Faber. [11] [12] [13] [14] In August 2020, he served as caretaker coach after Erwin van de Looi was promoted to the staff of the senior team. [15]

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