Dirk Heesen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dirk Heesen | ||
| Date of birth | September 15, 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team |
Queens Park Rangers (First Team Coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1990 | FC Utrecht | 5 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | → FC Wageningen (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 1990–1992 | FC Wageningen | 70 | (5) |
| 1992–1998 | FC Den Haag/ADO Den Haag | 249 | (32) |
| 1998–2002 | TOP Oss | 119 | (9) |
| Total | 468 | (46) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2010–2012 | FC Oss | ||
| 2012 | Team VVCS | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Dirk Heesen is a Dutch association football coach and former player who is currently the First Team Coach of Queens Park Rangers.
Playing career
Heesen played for FC Utrecht, FC Wageningen, ADO Den Haag and FC Oss in a career which spanned from 1988 to 2002.
Coaching career
After retiring in 2002, he began coaching at FC Oss, and continued in an assisting role until 2010, when he was appointed their manager. He remained as Oss' manager until 2012, winning them promotion from the Topklasse Sunday League in the process. In 2012, he was the head coach of Team VVCS. He then worked as assistant manager at Willem II from 2013 to 2015. He worked in China in 2015 with Guangzhou Evergrande as a coach before moving, on 15 December 2015, to Queens Park Rangers as the First Team Coach.[1][2] He still holds this position as of 2016.
References
- ↑ "DIRK HEESEN JOINS QPR AS FIRST TEAM COACH". Queens Park Rangers. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ↑ Fifield, Dominic (23 January 2016). "Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes education will be key to success at QPR". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2016.