Patrick Pothuizen

Patrick Pothuizen (born 15 May 1972 in Culemborg, Gelderland) is a former Dutch footballer. He is currently the manager of Astrantia SV.

Patrick Pothuizen
Personal information
Full name Patrick Pothuizen
Date of birth (1972-05-15) 15 May 1972
Place of birth Culemborg, Netherlands
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Astrantia SV (Manager)
Youth career
Vriendenschaar
Vitesse
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1994 Vitesse 10 (2)
1994 → Dordrecht'90 (loan) 10 (2)
1994–2000 NEC 178 (14)
2000–2001 Vitesse Arnhem 8 (1)
2001 → Twente (loan) 12 (0)
2001–2004 Twente 88 (4)
2004–2010 NEC 102 (4)
2010–2012 De Treffers 47 (3)
2012–2014 DIO '30
Teams managed
2016–2017 Jong NEC (assistant)
2017–2019 NEC (assistant)
2019– Astrantia SV
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Pothuizen was a defender who was born in Culemborg and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Vitesse Arnhem squad in the 1992–93 season. He also played for Dordrecht'90 and FC Twente before joining NEC Nijmegen for the second time in his career.[1]

To date, Pothuizen owns the record of having had most yellow cards as an Eredivisie Player. His final yellow card, his 84th, is also his most notorious yellow card as critics in media claimed that it should have been a red card. In the incident Pothuizen controversially put his hand to the ball which prevented Luis Suarez from a goalscoring opportunity. After he received the yellow card, Pothuizen pulled his football shirt up in order to show the crowd his white shirt with yellow text marking saying "84", referring to his yellow card record.

After the 2009-10 season, Pothuizen ended his professional career, and joined amateur side, De Treffers.[2]

Coaching career

In the summer 2012, Pothuizen joined DIO '30 where he was going to be a youth coach and he was also registered as a player.[3] In addition, he would also start his own football school. On 13 June 2014 NEC announced, that Pothuizen had joined the team as a team manager for the first team. He would still continue as a youth coach at DIO '30.

Pothuizen became the assistant manager of Jong NEC for the 2016/17 season with Ron de Groot as manager.[4] In April 2017, the duo was promoted to the first team, still with de Groot as manager and Pothuizen as his assistant.[5] NEC announced on 2 April 2019, that he had left the club.[6]

On 2 May 2019, he was appointed as manager of Astrantia SV for the upcoming season.[7]

References
  1. "Patrick Pothuizen" (in Dutch). Voetbal International. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
  2. "Pothuizen gaat bij De Treffers verder in de Topklasse". voetbalzone.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  3. Pothuizen door als trainer en speler bij DIO'30, gelderlander.nl, 10 June 2012
  4. Pothuizen en De Groot naar Jong NEC, omroepgelderland.nl, 22 June 2016
  5. De Groot tijdelijk trainer van NEC, nrc.nl, 26 April 2017
  6. Patrick Pothuizen op non-actief gesteld door N.E.C., nec-nijmegen.nl, 2 April 2019
  7. PATRICK POTHUIZEN NIEUWE TRAINER ASTRANTIA, indewandelgangen.com, 2 May 2019


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