Johannes "Johan/Jan" Boskamp (born 21 October 1948) is a Dutch former

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player and manager. He played the majority of his career for hometown club

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and Belgian side

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and managed primarily in the Belgian leagues. Currently he is a regular

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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 Rotterdam 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 it ...

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, R.W.D. Molenbeek (with whom he won the Belgian First Division in 1975), and Lierse. Boskamp was furthermore voted

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winner in 1975.

International

He was part of the Dutch team for the

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, making one substitute appearance against

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. He also won the

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, with Feyenoord.

Coaching career

Later Boskamp became a manager and coached

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clubs Lierse,

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. He then moved to

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in 1999 to manage

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and also the Georgia national team. After a return to Belgium with

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he moved to the Middle East and managed

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side Al Wasl and

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club

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. He became manager of English side

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for the 2005–06 season. Stoke's Icelandic board wanted the club to start mounting a serious attempt at gaining promotion to the

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and so decided a change in style was required with Boskamp replacing

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. He brought in a number of foreign players which included

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, Junior N'Galula and

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as well as domestic based players,

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, Paul Gallagher, Mamady Sidibe,

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and

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. He also broke the club record transfer fee with a £950,000 signing of

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striker Sambégou Bangoura. However results were often poor and after a number of heavy home defeats to

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and

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, and 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. But in one of those wins away at

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Boskamp and his assistant Jan de Koning and director of football

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were involved in an argument which led to Boskamp almost resigning. Stoke began 2006 in terrible form winning just one match in ten and scoring a mere six goals in that time. 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 and with Stoke's season fizzling out with no chance of promotion Boskamp was not offered a new contract by Gunnar Gíslason. With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the

and with debts now at around £5million chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale and he sold the club back to former chairman

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. Coates then re-appointed

as manager who had spent the season with

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. He was then briefly manager at

in 2006. In November 2007 he became coach of another

club:

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, on 19 May 2009 he quit

after an argument with his coaching assistant Patrick Asselman, who has been named new coach. In June 2009, Boskamp signed with

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but was sacked in December 2009 after poor results.

Career statistics

Club

Source:

International

Source:

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Feyenoord *

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: 1968–69, 1970–71, 1973–74 *

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: 1968-69 * Intercontinental Cup:

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1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

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1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

RWD Molenbeek *

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: 1974–75 *

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: 1975 *

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: 1975

International

Netherlands

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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

(

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)

Individual

* Man of the Season (Belgian First Division): 1974-75, 1977-78 *

: 1975

Manager

SK Beveren *

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: 1990-91 RSC Anderlecht *

: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95 Dinamo Tbilisi *

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: 1998–99 Racing Genk *

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: List of Belgian Cup winners, 1999–2000

References

External links

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