Johan Boskamp

Johan Boskamp
Boskamp in 1978
Personal information
Full name Johannes Boskamp
Date of birth (1948-10-21) 21 October 1948 (age 76)
Place of birth Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1955–1965 RVV HOV
1965–1966 Feyenoord
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1974 Feyenoord 102 (14)
1969–1970 → Holland Sport (loan) 31 (7)
1974–1982 RWD Molenbeek 238 (36)
1982–1984 Lierse 60 (3)
Total 431 (60)
International career
1978 Netherlands 2 (0)
Managerial career
1981 RWDM
1984–1987 Lierse
1988–1989 Verbr. Denderhoutem
1989–1992 Beveren
1992–1993 Kortrijk
1993–1997 Anderlecht
1997–1998 Gent
1999 Dinamo Tbilisi
1999 Georgia
2000–2001 Genk
2001–2002 Al Wasl
2004–2005 Kazma
2005–2006 Stoke City
2006 Standard Liège
2007–2009 Dender
2009 Beveren
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Johannes "Johan/Jan" Boskamp (born 21 October 1948) is a Dutch former football player and manager.

He played the majority of his career for hometown club Feyenoord and Belgian side RWDM, and managed primarily in the Belgian leagues. Currently, he is a regular sports commentator on two Dutch and Belgian football television programs. He is commonly addressed as "Jan" in the Netherlands and "Johan" in Belgium.

Playing career

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Club

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His former clubs as a player include RVV HOV, Feyenoord, Holland Sport, RWD Molenbeek (with whom he won the Belgian First Division in 1975) and Lierse. Boskamp was furthermore voted Belgian Golden Shoe winner in 1975.

International

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He was part of the Dutch team for the 1978 FIFA World Cup, making one substitute appearance against Scotland.[1] He also won the 1970 Intercontinental Cup with Feyenoord.

Coaching career

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Later, Boskamp became a manager, and coached Belgian clubs Lierse, Dender, Beveren, Kortrijk, Anderlecht and Gent. He then moved to Georgia in 1999 to manage Dinamo Tbilisi, as well as the Georgia national team. After a return to Belgium with Genk, he moved to the Middle East and managed the United Arab Emirates side Al Wasl, and the Kuwaiti club Kazma.[2]

He became manager of English side Stoke City for the 2005–06 season.[3][4] Stoke's Icelandic board wanted the club to start mounting a serious attempt at gaining promotion to the Premier League, and so decided a change in style was required, with Boskamp replacing Tony Pulis. He brought in a number of foreign players, which included Carl Hoefkens, Hannes Sigurðsson, Junior N'Galula and Martin Kolář, as well as domestically-based players such as Marlon Broomes, Paul Gallagher, Mamady Sidibe, Peter Sweeney and Luke Chadwick. He also broke the club record transfer fee with a £950,000 signing of Standard Liège striker Sambégou Bangoura. However, results were often poor, and after a number of heavy home defeats to Watford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff City, supporters began asking questions. Bangoura then went on a good run of form scoring seven goals in six matches, as Stoke won six matches in November and December to give them a platform to build on going into the new year.[4] But, in one of those wins away at Coventry City, Boskamp and his assistant Jan de Koning and director of football John Rudge were involved in an argument, which led to Boskamp almost resigning.[4][5]

Stoke began 2006 in terrible form, winning just one match in ten, and scoring a mere six goals in that time.[4] Bangoura had been away on international duty with Guinea, and failed to return to the club at the agreed date, which caused the shortage of goals; with Stoke's season fizzling out, with no chance of promotion, Boskamp was not offered a new contract by Gunnar Gíslason.[6] With the Icelandic board failing to gain promotion to the Premier League, and with debts now at around £5 million, chairman Gunnar Gíslason put the club up for sale, and he sold the club back to former chairman Peter Coates.[7][8] Coates then re-appointed Tony Pulis as manager, who had spent the season with Plymouth Argyle.[9]

Boskamp was then briefly manager at Standard Liège in 2006.[10] In November 2007, he became coach of another Belgian club: Dender. On 19 May 2009, he quit Dender after an argument with his coaching assistant Patrick Asselman, who was subsequently named as his replacement.[11]

In June 2009, Boskamp signed with Beveren,[12] but was sacked in December 2009 after poor results.[13]

In June 2024, Boskamp put an end to his career as an analyst and Standaard Uitgeverij published in collaboration with Boskamp's partner the autobiography Boskamp - Mijn leven (Boskamp - My Life).

Career statistics

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Club

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Source:[14]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League
Division Apps Goals
Feyenoord 1966–67 Eredivisie 1 0
1967–68 Eredivisie 15 2
1968–69 Eredivisie 10 0
1969–70 Eredivisie 0 0
1970–71 Eredivisie 22 2
1971–72 Eredivisie 21 4
1972–73 Eredivisie 5 1
1973–74 Eredivisie 28 5
Total 102 14
Holland Sport (loan) 1969–70 Eredivisie 31 7
RWD Molenbeek 1974–75 Belgian First Division 33 5
1975–76 Belgian First Division 32 6
1976–77 Belgian First Division 28 4
1977–78 Belgian First Division 30 7
1978–79 Belgian First Division 32 6
1979–80 Belgian First Division 28 2
1980–81 Belgian First Division 26 3
1981–82 Belgian First Division 29 3
Total 238 36
Lierse 1982–83 Belgian First Division 29 2
1983–84 Belgian First Division 31 1
Total 60 3
Career total 431 60

International

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Source:[14]

National team Year Apps Goals
Netherlands 1978 2 0
Total 2 0

Managerial statistics

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Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
P W D L Win %
Stoke City[15] 29 June 2005 1 May 2006 51 18 10 23 035.3
Johan Boskamp in 1977

Honours

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Player

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Feyenoord[16]

RWD Molenbeek

International

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Netherlands

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Individual

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Manager

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SK Beveren[23]

RSC Anderlecht[24]

Dinamo Tbilisi[25]

Racing Genk[26]

References

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  1. ^ Intl career stats - Voetbalstats
  2. ^ Johan Boskamp over de sjeik en zijn telmachine - Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch)
  3. ^ "Boskamp named as new Stoke boss". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d "Stoke City season review 2005–06 Boskamp's one season in charge is a bizarre experience". The Sentinel. 18 May 2006.
  5. ^ "Boskamp keen to resolve future". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Boskamp will not be offered deal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Chairman Gislason departs Stoke". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Coates takes over as Stoke owner". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Pulis confirmed as Stoke manager". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  10. ^ ESPNsoccernet – Europe – Standard Liege sack coach Boskamp Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com (30 August 2006). Retrieved on 8 November 2013.
  11. ^ (in Dutch) HLN Jupiler League – Johan Boskamp niet langer trainer van Dender Archived 22 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Hln.be (14 September 2009). Retrieved on 8 November 2013.
  12. ^ Johan Boskamp nieuwe trainer van Beveren - Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch)
  13. ^ Johan Boskamp buiten in Beveren - Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch)
  14. ^ a b Johan Boskamp at National-Football-Teams.com
  15. ^ "Johan Boskamp". Soccerbase. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  16. ^ "Feyenoord, een topclub zonder geld".
  17. ^ "Les petites histoires de Rodrigo : Le RWDM champion il y a 45 ans".
  18. ^ "Jules Pappaert Cup".
  19. ^ "Amsterdam Tournament". Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  20. ^ "FIFA World Cup 1978". Archived from the original on 17 May 2018.
  21. ^ "Homme de la saison belge".
  22. ^ "Winnaars Gouden Schoen".
  23. ^ "SK Beveren | Geschiedenis".
  24. ^ "RSC Anderlecht | Palmares".
  25. ^ "FootballHistory.org | FC Dinamo Tbilisi".
  26. ^ "Het Belang Van Limburg | Genk in Cijfers".
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