Harry Waites, sometimes also called Jim Waites, was an English

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coach active in the Netherlands in the 1920s.

Career

Waites, who was a rugby player in his youth, spent World War I in an open Prisoner-of-War camp in the Netherlands, alongside footballer

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, winning the league title in 1920. Waites managed the Dutch national side in 1921,VoetbalStats.nl
and later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924 and 1925, before returning to England.

References

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