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Marinus Dijkhuizen

Marinus Dijkhuizen
Personal information
Full name Marinus Dijkhuizen
Date of birth (1972-01-04) 4 January 1972 (age 45)
Place of birth 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands
Height 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position Forward
Youth career
1977–1993 's-Gravenzandse SV
1993–1994 Excelsior Maassluis
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1996 S.B.V. Excelsior 66 (28)
1996–1999 SC Cambuur 90 (26)
1999–2002 FC Utrecht 28 (4)
2000–2001 Dunfermline Athletic (loan) 10 (1)
2001–2002 FC Emmen (loan) 3 (1)
2002–2005 TOP Oss 83 (30)
2005–2006 S.B.V. Excelsior 44 (8)
2007–2008 SC Cambuur 42 (7)
Total 336 (110)
Teams managed
2009–2012 VV Montfoort
2012–2014 VV De Meern
2014–2015 S.B.V. Excelsior
2015 Brentford
2015–2016 NAC Breda
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Marinus Dijkhuizen (born 4 January 1972, in 's-Gravenzande) is a Dutch football manager, coach and former player, most recently manager of NAC Breda. As a player he had notable spells in his native Netherlands with S.B.V. Excelsior, SC Cambuur and TOP Oss. He retired in 2009 and entered management, eventually returning to S.B.V. Excelsior as manager in 2014.

A striker, Dijkhuizen spent the majority of his 14-year professional career in the top two divisions of Dutch football, most notably with two spells at both S.B.V. Excelsior and SC Cambuur. He was a part of the SC Cambuur team which secured promotion to the Eredivisie in the 1997–98 season and later played top-flight football with FC Utrecht. He had a loan spell with Scottish Premier League side Dunfermline Athletic during the 2000–01 season. He retired at the end of the 2008–09 season after a player-coach spell at hometown club 's-Gravenzande SC.

In 2008, Dijkhuizen took up a coaching role at Eerste Klasse side 's-Gravenzandse SV, the club where he began his career. He left the club in 2009.

During the 2012–13 Eredivisie season, Dijkhuizen worked as a striker coach at former side FC Utrecht.


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