Foppe de Haan
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| Full name | Foppe de Haan | |
| Date of birth | June 26, 1943 | |
| Place of birth | Lippenhuizen (Opsterland), Netherlands | |
| Playing position | Manager | |
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| 1974-1978 1976-1977 1977-1980 1980-1983 1983-1985 1985-2004 2004-2008 2008- |
VV Akkrum SC Heerenveen (youth) Drachtster Boys ACV Steenwijk SC Heerenveen Netherlands national under-21 football team Southampton |
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Foppe de Haan (born June 26, 1943 in Lippenhuizen, Friesland) is a Dutch football coach.
De Haan is former coach of the Netherlands national under-21 football team (Dutch: Jong Oranje), with whom he won the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. A semi final spot in the latter tournament also qualified the Dutch for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is a former coach of the club SC Heerenveen from 1985 till 2004, the longest time a coach worked for a Dutch professional football club. He brought the club back to the Eredivisie in 1993. In 1999 he reached second place in the Eredivisie with Heerenveen and thus qualified for the Uefa Champions League for the first time in the club's history.
In 2003 he received the Sport award and on May 10, 2004, after his final game as coach of SC Heerenveen, he was given the title knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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