Arie Schans
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Arie Schans | ||
| Date of birth | December 12, 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Netherlands | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2002–2003 | Bhutan | ||
| 2005 | Oita Trinita (caretaker) | ||
| 2008 | Namibia | ||
| 2013 | Guizhou Zhicheng | ||
| 2015 | Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty (caretaker) | ||
Arie Schans (born December 12, 1952) is a Dutch football manager. He initially started as a trainer within the Netherlands before he took over as Bhutan's coach and would star within the documentary film The Other Final about the two of the lowest ranked teams in the FIFA World Rankings having to face each other. After beating the opposition Montserrat from the documentary (4–0), he spent some time attempting to improve Bhutanese football quality before returning to assistant coaching and having spells at Oita Trinita and Namibia, the latter of whom he guided to the 2008 African Cup of Nations.
He initially started out as a trainer in 1971, and from 1977 to 1985 he was associated with lower league Dutch side FC Wageningen. In 2001 he was the trainer for Dutch amateur football club GVVV where he became the first trainer within Dutch amateur football to be appointed as full-time.
Arie would take the Bhutan national football team job in 2002 and would star within the documentary film The Other Final, about the two of the lowest ranked teams in the FIFA World Rankings. After beating the opposition Montserrat from the documentary, Arie spent several months attempting to improve football standards in Bhutan before deciding to move to Japan and join top tier Japanese side Oita Trinita as an assistant. In 2005 he was brought in as a caretaker manager after Hwangbo Kwan left the club, however Péricles Chamusca soon stepped in on a permanent basis and Arie would soon return to the Netherlands.
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