Wiljan Vloet

Wiljan Vloet (born 10 September 1962) is a Dutch football manager, executive and former player. He serves as the sporting director of FC Den Bosch.

Wiljan Vloet
Vloet with ADO Den Haag in 2007
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-09-10) 10 September 1962
Place of birth Schijndel, Netherlands
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
RKSV Schijndel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1979 RKSV Schijndel 182 (69)
1979–1982 VV Heerenveen 94 (12)
1982–1983 RKSV Schijndel 33 (12)
1983–1984 Dijka Steenwijk 24 (4)
Managerial career
1984–1985 SV Heusden
1985–1987 Dijka Steenwijk
1987–1989 Cuijk
1989–1993 Sparta '25
1993–1999 OJC Rosmalen
2001–2002 Den Bosch
2002–2005 Roda JC
2005–2007 Sparta Rotterdam
2007–2008 ADO Den Haag
2009–2011 NEC
2014 Niki Volos
2016–2017 Den Bosch
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

As a footballer, Vloet never played for a professional club. He started his career at hometown club RKSV Schijndel from Brabant, with whom he reached the Eerste Klasse. In 1979, he moved to Friesland at the age of 16, where he went to study at the CIOS, a vocational education centered around physical education.[1] He went to play for VV Heerenveen in Friesland after being considered unfit for the professional branch of the club, SC Heerenveen, after a trial.[2] Vloet played with VV Heerenveen in the Derde Klasse of amateur football. Vloet would, however, begin coaching at SC Heerenveen, where he took care of one of the under-15 team. In 1982, he returned to Brabant and started playing for RKSV Schijndel again. After a year, however, he decided to return to Friesland to coach at VV Akkrum, located close to Heerenveen, and to play at Dijka Steenwijk, where coaching legend Foppe de Haan became his head coach.[2]

Managerial career

Vloet started working as coach in 1979, when he took charge of the youth team of amateurs VV Heerenveen while still playing there. In 1984, he took his first head coaching job, at amateurs SV Heusden. In 1999, after six seasons in charge of Hoofdklasse club OJC Rosmalen, he was appointed by Den Bosch as youth coach; in 2001 he received head coaching duties at the same club, being however unable to save it from relegation to the Eerste Divisie. He successively moved to Roda JC, where he stayed in charge from 2002 to 2005. He then moved to Sparta Rotterdam and was replaced at the end of the 2006–07 season by Gert Aandewiel, who came over from HFC Haarlem. Vloet then signed with ADO Den Haag, who he guided back to the Eredivisie in the spring of 2008. He then worked as youth coach of PSV until November 2009, when he was appointed head coach of Eredivisie club NEC. After two seasons in charge of the Nijmegen club, he left in June 2011 to accept a move back at Sparta Rotterdam, this time as technical director for the club.[3]

Vloet signed a three-year deal with Greek club Niki Volos in June 2014, who had just been promoted to the Super League at the time.[4] After losing the first three consecutive league matches to Olympiacos, Atromitos and PAOK, the club dismissed him three months after his arrival.[5]

On 10 February 2016, Den Bosch announced Vloet would succeed René van Eck as manager of the club, thereby starting his second term at the club.[6] In March 2017, he was promoted to the position of director of football within the club. In that role he became responsible for the entire youth academy and the club's scouting apparatus. He signed a contract for an indefinite period.[7] He was succeeded at the head coach position by Wil Boessen.[8]

References
  1. "Jeugdige trainer voor Steenswijk". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). No. 55. Groningen: Nieuwenhuis. 6 March 1985. p. 29. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  2. "'Foppe maakte het bed op, ik trek de lakens recht'". Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). Leeuwarden: Stichting Leeuwarder courant 1947. 26 October 1985. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  3. "Wiljan Vloet vertrekt naar Sparta Rotterdam, Alex Pastoor wordt de nieuwe hoofdtrainer van N.E.C." N.E.C. Nijmegen (in Dutch). 6 April 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  4. "Vloet aan de slag als trainer in Griekenland". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 18 June 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  5. "Vloet ontslagen: 'Voorzitter ging over de rooie'". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 14 September 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  6. "Vloet bedenkt zich en wordt coach van Den Bosch". fcupdate.nl (in Dutch). 10 February 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  7. Martens, Jan (2 March 2017). "Wiljan Vloet stopt als trainer en wordt manager voetbalzaken bij FC Den Bosch". Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  8. "Boessen na Thaise avonturen aan de slag bij Den Bosch". Voetbal International (in Dutch). 8 April 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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