Jan Everse (born 5 January 1954 in

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) is a retired

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player and manager, who is currently head coach at amateur side BVCB.

Playing career

Club

He made his professional debut for

Feyenoord Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after its ...

in a November 1973

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match against

Roda JC Sportvereniging Roda Juliana Combinatie Kerkrade (; Ripuarian: ), also known as Roda JC Kerkrade () or commonly Roda JC or Roda, is a Dutch professional football club based in Kerkrade, Netherlands. Roda JC Kerkrade plays in the Eerste Divisie. ...

and also played for their arch rivals

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in the 1970s. In 1980 Everse was forced to retire from professional football due to a heavy injury, his final game was in December 1979 against

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International

Everse made his debut for the

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in an April 1975

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against

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and he won his second and final cap in May that year against

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Managerial career

After his player career, he coached several amateur sides before taking charge of

FC Zwolle PEC Zwolle is a Dutch football club based in Zwolle, Netherlands. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation from the Eredivisie in the 2021–22 season. They have played in the Eredivisie for a total ...

in 1996. He then managed

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and Finnish outfit

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, where he left after a row with the club's chairman. He then had spells at amateur sides Zwart-Wit '28 and

Excelsior Maassluis Excelsior Maassluis is a football club from Maassluis, Netherlands, founded in 1918. The club's home ground is the 5,000 capacity arena known as Sportpark Dijkpolder. Excelsior won the Hoofdklasse of 2013 and became champions of the Topklasse jus ...

before joining Zwolle for a second spell in 2006. He was given the sack in March 2009 after a highly publicized incident involving the son of a member of the club's board. On 6 February 2010

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officials hired Everse as their coach until June 2010, replacing

Jan de Jonge Jan de Jonge (born 8 May 1963 in Emmen, Drenthe) is a retired football striker and is currently working as the manager of De Treffers. As a player, he served three clubs in the Netherlands: FC Groningen, SC Heerenveen and FC Emmen. Manage ...

. He coached

for a second time during the 2010–2011 season, but left the club in February 2011 due to poor results. In 2015, he managed Dutch

side

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, only to quit in March 2016 over a feud with technical director

Marco Boogers Marco Boogers (born 12 January 1967) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a forward. Boogers spent almost all of his career in the Netherlands, apart from an ill-fated spell at English club West Ham United. He later worked a ...

. He was appointed head coach at BVCB Bergschenhoek in summer 2017.

Personal life

Everse lives in

Bergschenhoek 270px, Town sign Bergschenhoek () is a town and former municipality in the municipality of Lansingerland, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is situated roughly 10 km to the north of Rotterdam. The town had a population of 18, ...

. His father Jan Everse sr. played 3 games for

. They were the first father and son to play for the ''Oranje''.Oranje krijgt weer een Cruijff
- Trouw

References

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