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Pieter Huistra

Pieter Huistra
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Personal information
Full name Pieter Egge Huistra
Date of birth (1967-01-18) 18 January 1967 (age 50)
Place of birth Goënga, Friesland, Netherlands
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
(Coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 Groningen 17 (1)
1986–1987 Veendam 33 (5)
1987–1990 Twente 93 (17)
1990–1995 Rangers 125 (22)
1995–1996 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 63 (13)
1996–1997 Groningen 9 (2)
1997–2000 Lierse 54 (11)
2000–2001 RBC Roosendaal 0 (0)
Total 394 (71)
National team
1988–1991 Netherlands 8 (0)
Teams managed
2001–2005 Jong Groningen
2005–2009 Vitesse Arnhem (Assistant Manager)
2009–2010 AFC Ajax (Assistant Manager)
2010–2012 Groningen
2012–2013 De Graafschap
2015 Indonesia (Interim Coach)
2015 Persipasi Bandung Raya
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Pieter Egge Huistra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈɦœystraː], born 18 January 1967) is a Dutch football coach and former winger, most recently serving as manager of De Graafschap. He is currently the Technical Director of the Indonesia national football team. Huistra played for the Scottish Premier Division club Rangers from 1990-95. He left there to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J. League. In 2001, he began coaching as the Head Coach for Jong Groningen. He was with them for four years before being named assistant coach of Aad de Mos at Vitesse. He then became an assistant coach with AFC Ajax and was named as their Head Coach on April 24, 2009. He was then the head coach of FC Groningen for the 2010–11 season. On May 30, 2012 he then became the head coach of the Eerste Divisie club De Graafschap. Finally, on December 3, 2014 he was appointed as the Technical Director of the Indonesia national football team.

Between 1990 and 1995 he played for Scottish Premier Division club Rangers, becoming the first of a number of Dutch players to play for the club, where he won five League medals, two League Cup medals and a Scottish Cup medal. He left Rangers to play for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J1 League.

Huistra began his coaching career in 2001 as Head Coach of Jong Groningen which he was for four years. On 1 July 2005 he left Groningen and was named as the new assistant coach of Aad de Mos at Vitesse Arnhem. After Vitesse he became an assistant coach at AFC Ajax as replacement of the injured Rob Witschge and was named as the new Jong Ajax Head Coach on 24 April 2009, he signed a contract between 30 June 2011. On January 2010, after FC Groningen coach Ron Jans announced his intention to leave the club at the end of the season, Huistra was announced as new team head coach for the 2010–11 season.


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