Roy Pierre Vernond Hendriksen (born 21 January 1969) is a Dutch professional

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and former player. During his 16-year playing career he played

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football with

SC Cambuur SC Cambuur, also known as Cambuur Leeuwarden, or simply Cambuur, () is a Dutch football club from the city of Leeuwarden formed on 19 June 1964. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, after winning the 2020–21 Ee ...

, before retiring in 2007 and entering management with Zeelandia Middelburg. He later served as assistant manager at

RKC Waalwijk RKC Waalwijk () is a Dutch professional football club based in Waalwijk, that is currently competing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' ('Roman Catholic Combination' in Dutch) and was established as a merger ...

, N.E.C,

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and Al Jazira.

Playing career

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, Hendriksen spent the majority of his 16-year professional career in the

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 ...

in the

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, most notably with

Helmond Sport Helmond Sport is a professional association football club based in the city of Helmond, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. The club was founded on 27 June 1967, as ...

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 ...

and

RBC Roosendaal RBC, commonly known under its previous official name RBC Roosendaal, is a football club based in Roosendaal, Netherlands. RBC currently plays in the seventh-tier Tweede Klasse after a bankruptcy in 2011, restarting the club in tenth tier Vijfde ...

. He helped

to promotion from the Eerste Divisie in the 1997–98 season and made 27

appearances the following year. He retired in 2007 after a second spell with Helmond Sport.

Managerial career

Zeelandia Middleburg

Hendriksen began his managerial career in 2007 with Derde Klasse side Zeelandia Middelburg. He took the club to the playoff semi-finals in his debut season, before suffering relegation to the

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in the 2008–09 season. He departed the club in 2010. He returned on a part-time consultancy basis during the 2011–12 season.

VC Vlissingen

Hendriksen was appointed manager at

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side

VC Vlissingen VC Vlissingen is a Dutch football team based in Vlissingen, playing in the Hoofdklasse. During the two seasons it spent as a professional team in the Eerste Divisie, the team was known as VCV Zeeland. Players during the professional years inclu ...

in 2010, the club where he began his career as a player. He managed a sixth-place finish with the financially stricken club and departed at the end of the 2010–11 season. He was nominated for the Coach of the Year award at the 2011 Zeeland Football Awards.

Helmond Sport

On 6 February 2016 it was announced that Hendriksen would return to Helmond Sport (his final club as a player) as head coach on a two-year contract from the beginning of the 2016–17 season. After a mid-table finish at the end of the 2016–17 Eerste Divisie season, a second-from-bottom finish in 2017–18 led to the club's decision to allow Hendriksen's contract to expire.

Coaching career

RKC Waalwijk

In January 2011, Hendriksen was appointed as Ruud Brood's assistant at Eerste Divisie club

on a contract until the end of the 2010–11 season. A run of 14 wins from 17 matches saw Waalwijk win promotion to the Eredivisie as champions at the end of the season. He signed a new contract in May 2011. Hendriksen assisted Brood to a 9th-place finish and qualification to the

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in the 2011–12 season, but they were denied a place in

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after a 5–2 aggregate defeat to Vitesse Arnhem in the final. Brood departed Waalwijk and was replaced by

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as manager in the summer of 2012, who retained Hendriksen as his assistant. Waalwijk narrowly missed relegation to the Eerste Divisie in the 2012–13 season and were relegated the following year after a 4–2 aggregate defeat to S.B.V. Excelsior in the

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. Hendriksen turned down the offer of a new three-year contract and left the club in May 2014.

N.E.C.

Hendriksen reunited with Ruud Brood at Eerste Divisie club N.E.C. in June 2014. In a successful 2014–15 season, the pair sent N.E.C. to the Eredivisie as champions. Hendriksen left the club at the end of the campaign.

Brentford

On 1 June 2015, Hendriksen was announced as assistant to

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club

. A number of departures and a crippling injury list saw Brentford sitting in 19th position after eight league games, which led to Dijkhuizen and Hendriksen being removed from their positions on 28 September 2015.

Sporting CP

On 12 November 2018, Hendriksen joined

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club

as assistant to manager

Marcel Keizer Marcel Keizer (born 15 January 1969) is a Dutch football coach and former player who is the manager of Emirati club Al Jazira. His playing career as a midfielder began at Ajax and was mainly spent at Cambuur, and he had brief spells managing bo ...

. He was sacked, along with Keizer, in September 2019.

Al Jazira

On 13 October 2019, Hendriksen joined

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club Al Jazira as assistant to manager Marcel Keizer. Owing to a

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suffered by Keizer, Hendriksen presided over a 1–0 win over

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in September 2021.

Career statistics

Honours

SC Cambuur *

promotion playoff: 1997–98

References

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