Joop Brand

Joop Brand

Brand in 1978
Personal information
Date of birth	(1936-06-11) 11 June 1936 (age 88)
Place of birth	Dubbeldam, Netherlands
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1947–1955	Xerxes
1955–1957	DFC
1957–1960	HVC
1960–1961	DFC
1961–1964	Heracles
Managerial career
1969–1971	DWS
1971–1973	Haarlem
1973–1976	AZ
1978–1980	Go Ahead Eagles
1980	Sparta
1980–1983	Telstar
1985–1986	AZ
1996	FC VVV
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joop Brand (born 11 June 1936) is a Dutch former football player and manager.

Playing career

A defender,^[1] Brand played for Xerxes, DFC,^[2] HVC and Heracles Almelo.^[3]

Managerial career

Brand coached DWS,^[4] HFC Haarlem, AZ, Go Ahead Eagles, Sparta Rotterdam and Telstar.

He was appointed head of the Sparta academy after working as caretaker manager at FC VVV.^[5]

Brand was dismissed as head of Vitesse's football academy in 2003 after criticizing the club's directors.^[6] He was named academy manager at ADO Den Haag,^[7] but resigned before he ever worked for the club and left them for PSV in summer 2003.^[8] He quit PSV in 2006.^[9] He later worked for amateur side IJsselmeervogels.^[10]

References

1. Joop Brand at WorldFootball.net
2. Trainersstaf DFC (1): Joop Brand technisch adviseur – Gerrit de Man looptrainer Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine - DFC (in Dutch)
3. Spelers A-Z Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine – Heracles (in Dutch)
4. "Kranten » Ruim 14.000.000 Nederlandstalige pagina's | Delpher". Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
5. Joop Brand hoofd opleiding Sparta - NRC (in Dutch)
6. Brand op staande voet ontslagen bij Vitesse - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
7. Joop Brand aan de slag bij ADO Den Haag - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
8. Joop Brand nieuwe Hoofd Jeugdopleiding - PSV (in Dutch)
9. Joop Brand na dit seizoen weg bij PSV - PSV (in Dutch)
10. Joop Brand en Jan Vedder versterken jeugdopleiding - IJsselmeervogels (in Dutch)

External links

• Profile (in Dutch)