Arno Pijpers
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Arnoldus Dick Pijpers | ||
| Date of birth | 21 April 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Feyenoord | |||
| Papendrecht | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1981–1982 | Excelsior | ||
| 1982–1987 | Olympia Gouda | ||
| 2000–2004 | Flora | ||
| 2000–2005 | Estonia | ||
| 2005–2008 | Kazakhstan | ||
| 2006 | Astana-1964 | ||
| 2008–2010 | Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg | ||
| 2010 | Willem II | ||
| 2012–2013 | Estonia U19 | ||
| 2013–2014 | Taraz | ||
| 2017– | Flora | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Arnoldus Dick Pijpers (born 21 April 1959) is a Dutch football manager, who is currently the manager of Estonian top tier club Flora.
He worked for the Royal Dutch Football Association as a youth coach, before taking up a dual role in being the coach of Estonian club Flora and the Estonia national football team in 2000. After the end of his contract, he joined Eredivisie club FC Utrecht as a technical director, before going to Kazakhstan in 2005. At the same time he coached FC Astana for the 2006 season, winning the Kazakhstan Super League title. He was fired as manager of Kazakhstan in September 2008. In 2010, he had a short stint as a coach in the Netherlands for Willem II.
Pijpers led Estonia first in World Cup 2002 qualification with two wins over Andorra and two draws with Cyprus. He achieved almost the same result in Euro 2004 qualification beating twice Andorra again, and drawing with Croatia (away) and Bulgaria (home). At World Cup 2006 qualification Pijpers won the first two games against Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. However the contract was terminated mutually with national team after a conflict with the FC Flora chairman Aivar Pohlak, who was the head of the Estonian Football Association at that time. Altogether under Pijpers the Estonian national team played 55 games winning 16 and drawing 14 (29.09% of winning).
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