Henk Wullems (21 January 1936 – 15 August 2020) was a Dutch

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

manager. In the early sixties he was a defender playing for

Kooger Football Club Alkmaar Zaanstreek (), better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ (), is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan district. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and host ...

( nl) and

Racing Club Heemstede Racing Club Heemstede (RCH) is an association football club from Heemstede, Netherlands. It was founded on 25 February 1911 and won the national title in 1923 and 1953. Honours * Dutch National Football League ;Winners: 1922–23, 1952–53 * ...

. Wullems was the manager of, among others, the

eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

teams NAC Breda (1972–75), SBV Vitesse (1977–83), Go Ahead Eagles (1983–86), and AZ (1990–93). From 1996 to 1997 he was manager of the

Indonesia national football team The Indonesia national football team ( id, Tim nasional sepak bola Indonesia) represents Indonesia in international association football. It was the first Asian team to participate in the FIFA World Cup, particularly in the 1938 edition as Dut ...

, winning a silver medal with them at the

1997 Southeast Asian Games The 1997 Southeast Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara 1997), officially known as the 19th Southeast Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara ke-19; the 19th SEA Games), was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Jakarta, ...

. From 2000 to 2007 he managed a number of Indonesia Super League teams, becoming champion with three of them. Henk Wullems died on 15 August 2020 due to illness after

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Honours

Player

KFC *

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as t ...

: 1959–60

Manager

NAC Breda * KNVB Cup: 1972–73 SBV Vitesse * Eerste Divisie: 1976–77 Bandung Raya * Liga Indonesia Premier Division: 1995–96 Indonesia *

Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

silver medal:

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References

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