Dutch football manager and former player

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wilhelmus "Wim" Gerardus Rijsbergen (Dutch pronunciation: ; born 18 January 1952) is a Dutch football manager and former player who played as a defender. He was last the manager of Solomon Islands' national team.

Contents

• 1 Playing career
• 2 Managerial career
• 3 Managerial statistics
• 4 Honors
  • 4.1 As a player
  • 4.2 As a manager
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Playing career

Rijsbergen was born in Leiden, South Holland. Playing for Feyenoord Rotterdam, he was part of the Netherlands national football team which finished second in both the 1974 and 1978 World Cups. He later played in the North American Soccer League, for the New York Cosmos. Rijsbergen began his professional career at PEC Zwolle, and ended it in 1986 at FC Utrecht.

Managerial career

Rijsbergen, an *istant to Leo Beenhakker at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, *umed control of the Trinidad and Tobago national team in his own right following the World Cup. As of December 2007, he was suspended by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation for six (6) months, through 4 June 2007 and replaced.

He was manager of Indonesia from 2011 to 2012, after which he stayed in Indonesia to become technical director. After a short spell at Persibo Bojonegoro, Rijsbergen joined the Solomon Islands and guided the island nation to a fourth place in group B in the 2019 Pacific Games.

Managerial statistics

Honors

As a player

PEC Zwolle

• Tweede Divisie runner up: 1970–71

Feyenoord

• Eredivisie: 1973–74
• UEFA Cup: 1973–74

New York Cosmos

• Soccer Bowl: 1980, 1982
• Soccer Bowl runner up: 1981

Utrecht

• KNVB Cup: 1984–85

Netherlands

• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1974, 1978
• UEFA European Championship third place: 1976

As a manager

FC Volendam

• KNVB Cup runner up: 1994–95

References

External links

• NASL stats
• Wim Rijsbergen at FootballDatabase.eu