Joop Gall (born 25 December 1963) is a Dutch

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manager and former player.

Playing career

Born in

Hoogezand-Sappemeer Hoogezand-Sappemeer () is a former municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It was the third most-populous municipality in the province of Groningen, after Groningen and Oldambt. It was formed in 1949 by the merger of the former municipali ...

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

, Gall spent his entire career playing with three teams, all from the North of the Netherlands:

BV Veendam Sportclub Veendam () was a Dutch professional association football club based in Veendam, province of Groningen. Founded on 4 September 1894 as Look-Out, it became P.J. Veendam in 1909, Veendam in 1910, SC Veendam in 1974, BV Veendam in 1997 a ...

, FC Groningen and

SC Heerenveen Sportclub Heerenveen (; West Frisian: Sportklub It Hearrenfean) is a Dutch football club from Heerenveen. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands. History Sportclub Heerenveen was founded on 20 July ...

. He retired in 1999 after a third spell with BV Veendam.

Coaching career

From 2001 to 2005 Gall served as assistant coach at FC Groningen. In 2005, he was appointed head coach of

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 the ...

club

, a position he left six years laters in 2011 to take over at Go Ahead Eagles. Gall was sacked by Go Ahead Eagles in March 2012, with the club in 11th place. Since July 2012 Gall is the FC Emmen manager. In April 2018, he was announced as caretaker manager of VV Pelikaan-S until the end of the season. One year later, he was once again appointed as caretaker manager, this time for

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.Joop Gall interim-trainer DFS
gelderlander.nl, 14 April 2019

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