Stanley Brard (born 24 October 1958, in

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) is a retired

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footballer who was active as a left back and who is currently Head of the Feyenoord Academy.

Playing career

Club

Brard started his career in his town of birth,

where he played for RKSV Lenig en Snel (LENS). He was spotted by scouts of

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side

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 ...

and joined the youth squads of this team. A few years later, in 1977 he made his debut in the first team of the club in a match against

FC Twente Football Club Twente () is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, sometimes known internationally as Twente Enschede. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Dutch champions Sportclub Enschede with Enschedese ...

. In the following years Brard became a decent fullback and was often in the starting line-up. The best achievements in his career came in the 1983-84 season when

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joined Feyenoord. In that season, at Cruyff's instigation, Brard was moved from the left back position to a position in front of Cruyff, to keep the opposition's right back from making incursions into the Feyenoord half. That year, Feyenoord won both the championship as well as the

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. Two years later Brard found himself on the bench more and more. It was time to leave the club. His next mission was 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 ...

, a club that recently had promoted to 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 ...

and were ambitious to become an Eredivisie side. Brard became a key factor in this team and in the 1987-88 season RKC were the Eerste Divisie champions and promoted to the Eredivisie (to only relegate again in the 2006-07 season). In the Eredivisie Brard was a key player of the team for three more years before he was no longer chosen in the starting line-ups, in his last two seasons of his career he only played seventeen matches.

Managerial career

After his career Brard became a manager and joined Vitesse where he became a youth coach as well as the coach of the second team for four years. He then switched to ADO Den Haag to become their manager in the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons. He later was a technical director at the team. In December 2001 Brard left ADO Den Haag to become a youth coach at

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. He remained in this function until February 2005 when Feyenoord's technical director

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convinced him to become academy boss at the club. Brard left Feyenoord for Azeri side

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to become their academy director between April 2013 and December 2015, when it was announced he would be joining Japanese side

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as sports director in January 2016. On 27 December, 2018, Feyenoord announced that Brard would return to the club as Head of the Feyenoord Academy.

Personal life

His cousin

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is a singer, TV icon and playmate, while his son

Joshua Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...

played professionally at

TOP Oss TOP Oss (), is a professional association football club based in the town of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. Founded in 1928 as T.O.P., a Dutch abbreviati ...

.Joshua Brard stopt per direct bij SHO
- Regio Rijnmond Voetbal

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brard, Stanley 1958 births Living people Footballers from The Hague Dutch people of Indonesian descent Men's association football fullbacks Dutch men's footballers Feyenoord players RKC Waalwijk players Eredivisie players Dutch football managers ADO Den Haag managers Feyenoord non-playing staff