Dutch footballer and manager

Johannes "Johan/Jan" Boskamp (born 21 October 1948) is a Dutch former football player and manager.

He played the majority of his career for hometown club Feyenoord and Belgian side RWDM and managed primarily in the Belgian leagues. Currently he is a regular sports commentator on two Dutch and Belgian football television programs. He is commonly addressed as "Jan" in the Netherlands and "Johan" in Belgium.

Contents

• 1 Playing career
  • 1.1 Club
  • 1.2 International
• 2 Coaching career
• 3 Career statistics
  • 3.1 Club
  • 3.2 International
• 4 Managerial statistics
• 5 Honours
  • 5.1 Player
  • 5.2 International
    • 5.2.1 Netherlands
  • 5.3 Individual
  • 5.4 Manager
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Playing career

Club

His former clubs as a player include RVV HOV, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Holland Sport, R.W.D. Molenbeek (with whom he won the Belgian First Division in 1975), and Lierse. Boskamp was furthermore voted Belgian Golden Shoe winner in 1975.

International

He was part of the Dutch team for the 1978 FIFA World Cup, making one subs*ute appearance against Scotland.

Coaching career

Later Boskamp became a manager and coached Belgian clubs Lierse, Dender, Beveren, Kortrijk, Anderlecht, Gent. He then moved to Georgia in 1999 to manage Dinamo Tbilisi and also the Georgia national team. After a return to Belgium with Genk he moved to the Middle East and managed United Arab Emirates side Al Wasl and Kuwait club Kazma.

He became manager of English side Stoke City for the 2005–06 season. Stoke's Icelandic board wanted the club to start mounting a serious attempt at gaining promotion to the Premier League and so decided a change in style was required with Boskamp replacing Tony Pulis. He brought in a number of foreign players which included Carl Hoefkens, Hannes Sigurðsson, Junior N'Galula and Martin Kolář as well as domestic based players, Marlon Broomes, Paul Gallagher, Mamady Sidibe, Peter Sweeney and Luke Chadwick. He also broke the club record transfer fee with a £950,000 signing of Standard Liège striker Sambégou Bangoura. However results were often poor and after a number of heavy home defeats to Watford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff City, and supporters began asking questions. Bangoura then went on a good run of form scoring seven goals in six matches as Stoke won six matches in November and December to give them a platform to build on going into the new year. But in one of those wins away at Coventry City Boskamp and his *istant Jan de Koning and director of football John Rudge were involved in an argument which led to Boskamp almost resigning.

Stoke began 2006 in terrible form winning just one match in ten and scoring a mere six goals in that time. Bangoura had been away on international duty with Guinea and failed to return to the club at the agreed date which caused the shortage of goals and with Stoke's season fizzling out with no chance of promotion Boskamp was not offered a new contract by Gunnar Gíslason. With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the Premier League and with debts now at around £5million chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale and he sold the club back to former chairman Peter Coates. Coates then re-appointed Tony Pulis as manager who had spent the season with Plymouth Argyle.

He was then briefly manager at Standard Liège in 2006. In November 2007 he became coach of another Belgian club: FCV Dender EH, on 19 May 2009 he quit Dender after an argument with his coaching *istant Patrick *elman, who has been named new coach.

In June 2009, Boskamp signed with SK Beveren but was sacked in December 2009 after poor results.

Career statistics

Club

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International

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Managerial statistics

Johan Boskamp in 1977

Honours

Player

Feyenoord

• Eredivisie: 1968–69, 1970–71, 1973–74
• KNVB Cup: 1968-69
• Intercontinental Cup: 1970
• UEFA Cup: 1974
• Intertoto Cup: 1967, 1968, 1973

RWD Molenbeek

• Belgian First Division: 1974–75
• Jules Pappaert Cup: 1975
• Amsterdam Tournament: 1975

International

Netherlands

• FIFA World Cup: 1978 (runners-up)

Individual

• Man of the Season (Belgian First Division): 1974-75, 1977-78
• Belgian Golden Shoe: 1975

Manager

SK Beveren

• Second Division: 1990-91

RSC Anderlecht

• Belgian First Division: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95

Dinamo Tbilisi

• Umaglesi Liga: 1998–99

Racing Genk

• Belgian Cup: 1999–2000

References

External links

• Johan Boskamp at National-Football-Teams.com
• Weltfussball profile
• Johan Boskamp management career statistics at Soccerbase
• Just who is Johan Boskamp?
• Johan Boskamp trainer Stoke City