Wilfried Brookhuis () (born 16 October 1961 in

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, Overijssel) is a retired

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from the

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, who played professional football for NEC Nijmegen for eleven years (1985–1996).

Managerial career

Brookhuis joined

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as a goalkeeper coach in 2004. In summer 2013 he was appointed caretaker manager alongside

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after

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was sacked. Brookhuis had been caretaker three times before, after the club fired Cees Lok in 2005,

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in 2009 and in August 2013. In March 2018, Brookhuis was hit by a

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but the club later announced, that his situation was stable and not life-threatening. He was then temporarily replaced by

Gábor Babos Gábor Babos (; born 24 October 1974) is a Hungarian football goalkeeper. He is also currently the goalkeeper coach of NAC Breda. Babos has previously played for MTK Hungária, Feyenoord and NEC before returning to NAC Breda in the summer ...

for his position as a goalkeeper coach. He returned to NEC in the July 2018 and was in a reintegration process and continued in his position, which included coaching the goalkeepers and policy-related activities for goalkeeper training for the first team, Jong NEC and the youth academy. On 3 April 2019, he was appointed as caretaker manager for Jong NEC (the U21 squad or reserve team of NEC) after

was promoted to first team manager.Trainer Wilfried Brookhuis debuteert bij Jong NEC met 3-1 nederlaag
gelderlander.nl, 9 April 2019

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