Johan Boskamp

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Johan Boskamp
Johan Boskamp 1978c.jpg
Boskamp in 1978
Personal information
Full name Johannes Boskamp
Date of birth (1948-10-21) 21 October 1948 (age 75)
Place of birth Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1955–1965 RVV HOV
1965–1966 Feyenoord
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1966–1974 Feyenoord 102 (14)
1969–1970Holland Sport (loan) 31 (7)
1974–1982 RWD Molenbeek 238 (36)
1982–1984 Lierse 60 (3)
Total431(60)
International career
1978 Netherlands 2 (0)
Managerial career
1981 RWDM
1984–1987 Lierse
1988–1989 Verbr. Denderhoutem
1989–1992 Beveren
1992–1993 Kortrijk
1993–1997 Anderlecht
1997–1998 Gent
1999 Dinamo Tbilisi
1999 Georgia
2000–2001 Genk
2001–2002 Al Wasl
2004–2005 Kazma
2005–2006 Stoke City
2006 Standard Liège
2007–2009 Dender
2009 Beveren
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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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.

Playing career

Club

His former clubs as a player include RVV HOV, Feyenoord, Holland Sport, RWD 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 substitute appearance against Scotland. [1] He also won the 1970 Intercontinental Cup with Feyenoord.

Coaching career

Later, Boskamp became a manager, and coached Belgian clubs Lierse, Dender, Beveren, Kortrijk, Anderlecht and Gent. He then moved to Georgia in 1999 to manage Dinamo Tbilisi, as well as the Georgia national team. After a return to Belgium with Genk, he moved to the Middle East and managed the United Arab Emirates side Al Wasl, and the Kuwaiti club Kazma. [2]

He became manager of English side Stoke City for the 2005–06 season. [3] [4] 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 domestically-based players such as 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, 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. [4] But, in one of those wins away at Coventry City, Boskamp and his assistant Jan de Koning and director of football John Rudge were involved in an argument, which led to Boskamp almost resigning. [4] [5]

Stoke began 2006 in terrible form, winning just one match in ten, and scoring a mere six goals in that time. [4] 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; with Stoke's season fizzling out, with no chance of promotion, Boskamp was not offered a new contract by Gunnar Gíslason. [6] With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the Premier League, and with debts now at around £5 million, chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale, and he sold the club back to former chairman Peter Coates. [7] [8] Coates then re-appointed Tony Pulis as manager, who had spent the season with Plymouth Argyle. [9]

Boskamp was then briefly manager at Standard Liège in 2006. [10] In November 2007, he became coach of another Belgian club: Dender. On 19 May 2009, he quit Dender after an argument with his coaching assistant Patrick Asselman, who was subsequently named as his replacement. [11]

In June 2009, Boskamp signed with Beveren, [12] but was sacked in December 2009 after poor results. [13]

In June 2024, Boskamp put an end to his career as an analyst and Standaard Uitgeverij published in collaboration with Boskamp's partner the autobiography Boskamp - Mijn leven (Boskamp - My Life).

Career statistics

Club

Source: [14]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague
DivisionAppsGoals
Feyenoord 1966–67 Eredivisie 10
1967–68 Eredivisie152
1968–69 Eredivisie100
1969–70 Eredivisie00
1970–71 Eredivisie222
1971–72 Eredivisie214
1972–73 Eredivisie51
1973–74 Eredivisie285
Total10214
Holland Sport (loan) 1969–70 Eredivisie317
RWD Molenbeek 1974–75 Belgian First Division 335
1975–76 Belgian First Division326
1976–77 Belgian First Division284
1977–78 Belgian First Division307
1978–79 Belgian First Division326
1979–80 Belgian First Division282
1980–81 Belgian First Division263
1981–82 Belgian First Division293
Total23836
Lierse 1982–83 Belgian First Division292
1983–84 Belgian First Division311
Total603
Career total43160

International

Source: [14]

National teamYearAppsGoals
Netherlands 197820
Total20

Managerial statistics

Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamFromToRecord
PWDLWin %
Stoke City [15] 29 June 20051 May 200651181023035.3
Johan Boskamp in 1977 Johan Boskamp 1977.jpg
Johan Boskamp in 1977

Honours

Player

Feyenoord [16]

RWD Molenbeek

International

Netherlands

Individual

Manager

SK Beveren [23]

RSC Anderlecht [24]

Dinamo Tbilisi [25]

Racing Genk [26]

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