Raymond Atteveld

Raymond Atteveld

Personal information
Full name	Raymond Atteveld
Date of birth	(1966-09-08) 8 September 1966 (age 56)
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Position(s)	Full back, Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1989	Haarlem	85	(6)
1989–1992	Everton	51	(1)
1992	→ West Ham United (loan)	1	(0)
1992	Bristol City	14	(1)
1993–1994	Waregem	14	(2)
1994–1995	Roda JC	27	(9)
1995–1997	Vitesse	42	(3)
1997–1999	FC Groningen	65	(10)
1999–2002	ADO Den Haag	27	(0)
Total		326	(32)
Managerial career
2001–2004	ADO Den Haag (assistant)
2006–2007	Roda JC (assistant)
2007–2008	Roda JC (manager/technical director)
2009–2010	ADO Den Haag (manager/technical director)
2011	AEL Limassol
2011–2012	AEL Limassol (academy director)
2012–2013	FC Banants Yerevan (U19 /supervisor)
2013–2016	FC Kairat Almaty (academy director)
2016–2019	Maccabi Tel Aviv (performance director)
2019–2020	Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam
2020–2021	Maccabi Netanya
2022–2023	Zorya Luhansk (assistant)
2023–	Shakhtar Donetsk (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Raymond Atteveld (born 8 September 1966) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the assistant coach of Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk.

Playing career

Club

Atteveld played for Haarlem before moving to England to join Everton. ^[1]

He made his debut for Everton on 2 December 1989 against Coventry City, in a 2–0 home win. During his career at Everton, he made 41 league appearances from the outset and a further 10 as a substitute, scoring only one goal. Atteveld is one of seven Dutchmen to have played for Everton, the others being Andy van der Meyde, Sander Westerveld, Johnny Heitinga, Royston Drenthe, Davy Klaassen and Maarten Stekelenburg.

Atteveld was one of the first foreigners to get a regular first-team place in the Everton squad although he struggled to make a name of himself in the English game. Atteveld is remembered by Evertonians for stripping during an end of season lap of honour and throwing his kit into the crowd.^{[ citation needed ]}

He joined West Ham United on loan, and became the first Dutch player in the club's history when he made played his only league game for the club on 22 February 1992, a 2–1 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday. He made two FA Cup appearances for the club, for the Fifth Round games against Sunderland on 15 February and 26 February.

The tough-tackling holding midfielder joined ambitious Vitesse in summer 1995 from high-flying Roda JC, ^[2] only to move to FC Groningen a year later. ^[3] In summer 1999, Atteveld left FC Groningen for ADO Den Haag. ^[4]

Managerial career

Atteveld worked as an assistant manager for Roda in 2006, until 2007, where he was promoted to manager/technical director after the departure of Huub Stevens. He qualified for the play-offs for European football, only to miss out going into Europe by 2 draws in the encounter with FC Utrecht. However, due to struggles within the board after the placement of a new technical director, he was sacked on 7 October 2008. On 17 April 2009, he replaced André Wetzel as the new ADO Den Haag manager/technical director. Atteveld managed to keep ADO Den Haag in the Dutch Premier league with scoring 12 goals in the last 4 games of that season. The following season, Atteveld now replaced Wetzel as Technical Director to finish the season. In that summer Atteveld refused to continue in his present role and therefore left the club on mutual terms in the summer of 2010. In February 2011 he moved abroad to coach Cypriot outfit AEL Limassol on an interim basis. ^[5] AEL Limassol reached the play-offs under Atteveld. He mainly played with youngsters due to non salary payment of 1st team regulars. This working with the AEL youngsters resulted in Atteveld taking the Academy Director role the following seasons to come. As an Academy Director Atteveld introduced a successful playing style all throughout the club. 300% increase in National Team players was the result of this approach. Up until today, his philosophy and structure are still used within the club.

Atteveld later went on to supervise as Senior Academy consultant at FC Banants Yerevan in Armenia before moving to Kazakhstan in 2013. In Kazakhstan Atteveld was Academy Director for the U14 until U19 teams. During this time the Kazakh outfit, FC Kairat Almaty, broke all records regarding championships. Many players of the academy broke into the National Team of Kazakhstan. In 2013-2014 season, 3 teams of the Academy became champions of Kazakhstan. In 2014-2015 4 teams took the championship, only to be improved by 5 championship winning teams in 2015-2016. A record set for Kazakhstan by any club, and up until today FC Kairat Almaty still holds this record. At the beginning of the season 2016-2017 Atteveld was offered the role of Head Coach of FC Kairat Almaty B team, operating in Div. 2. ^[6] Atteveld kindly declined for this position and went on to introduce his own Academy, the Dutch Total Football Academy in Almaty. A call from Maccabi Tel Aviv FC in Israel to strengthen their setup ended this private academy adventure early on.

In Israel, at the biggest club of Israel - Maccabi Tel Aviv FC, Atteveld arrived in Sept. 2016 to take charge of the football development of the older Academy coaches & players for the U16, U17 and U19 teams. As a Performance Director, Atteveld introduced, among other things, the concept of Elite training for contract players within the academy while setting out an individual program for every player. Atteveld was tasked with leading a team in Div. 2 with prospects loaned from Maccabi Tel Aviv FC <ref>. The club, named Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam is operating in the 2nd division and presently the youngest team in this league (average age 20yrs). Now in 7th position, before the coronavirus brought a stop to the league. Teams within the positions 1-8 will qualify for the promotion play-offs at the end of the season. With 2 games to go before the regular season will end, Atteveld and Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam are in a perfect position to reach the promotion play-offs. During the winter break some players did move to the IPL, with more on the cards for the next season.<ref>

References

1. Interview with Raymond Atteveld evertonfc.com
2. Vertrek Atteveld naar Vitesse vooral eigen wens van speler - Volkskrant (in Dutch)
3. Vitesse laat Atteveld naar Groningen gaan - Volkskrant (in Dutch)
4. Atteveld van Groningen naar Den Haag - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
5. Trainer Atteveld tekent contract bij AEL Limassol - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
6. 'Voetbal in Kazachstan zit in de lift' - NOS (in Dutch)

• Hogg, Tony (2005). Who's Who of West Ham United. London: Profile Sports Media. ISBN   978-1-903135-50-1.

External links

• (in Dutch) Raymond Atteveld club history
• (in Dutch) Profile