Dido Havenaar

Dido Havenaar
ハーフナー・ディド

Personal information
Full name	Dido Havenaar
Date of birth	(1957-09-26) September 26, 1957
Place of birth	Hazerswoude-Dorp, Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1979–1985	Den Haag	80	(0)
1986–1989	Mazda	44	(0)
1989–1991	Yomiuri	4	(0)
1992–1994	Nagoya Grampus Eight	46	(0)
1995–1996	Júbilo Iwata	68	(0)
1997–1998	Consadole Sapporo	60	(0)
Total		302	(0)
Teams managed
1991–1992	Toyota Motors (GK coach)
1993	Japan (GK coach)
1995–1996	Júbilo Iwata (GK coach)
1999–2002	Consadole Sapporo (GK coach)
2003–2006	Yokohama F. Marinos (GK coach)
2007	Ryutsu Keizai University (Coach)
2008–2011	Nagoya Grampus (Coach)
2011–2012	Shimizu S-Pulse (Coach)
2013–2014	Suwon Samsung Bluewings (GK coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Dido Havenaar (ハーフナー・ディド, Havenaar Dido, born September 26, 1957) is a retired Japanese football player. A Dutchman born in Netherlands, Havenaar is a naturalized Japanese citizen. His sons Mike and Nikki are also footballers.

Playing career

Havenaar was born in Hazerswoude-Dorp, Netherlands on September 26, 1957. In 1979, he joined Den Haag. He played in 80 matches as goalkeeper.^[1] In 1986, he moved to Japan by inviting Japan Soccer League club Mazda coach Hans Ooft and he joined Mazda. He was elected Best Eleven in 1986–87 season and the club won the 2nd place 1987 Emperor's Cup. However the club was relegated to Division 2 in 1988. In 1989, he moved to Yomiuri. However he could hardly play in the match for injury. He retired and became a goalkeeper coach at Toyota Motors (later Nagoya Grampus Eight) in 1991.

In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and founded new league J1 League. Havenaar returned as a player at Nagoya Grampus Eight. He played many matches while battling with Yuji Ito for the position. In January 1994, his family became naturalized as Japanese citizens.^[2][3][4] In 1995, he moved to Júbilo Iwata and he played as regular goalkeeper. In 1997, he moved to Japan Football League club Consadole Sapporo. He played as regular goalkeeper and the club won the champions in 1997 and was promoted to J1 League. He retired end of 1998 season at the age of 41.

Coaching career

In 1991, Havenaar retired from playing career and became a goalkeeper coach for Toyota Motors (later Nagoya Grampus). In 1992, he returned as a player. In 1993, he also served as goalkeeper coach for Japan national team for 1994 World Cup qualification under manager Hans Ooft who was coach when Havenaar played for Mazda. In 1995, he moved to Júbilo Iwata and became a playing goalkeeper coach. He left the club end of 1996 season.

Havenaar retired from playing career at Consadole Sapporo end of 1998 season and became goalkeeper coach at Consadole under manager Takeshi Okada in 1999. He coached the club until 2002. In 2003, he moved to Yokohama F. Marinos and became a goalkeeper coach under manager Okada again. The club won the champions 2003 and 2004 J1 League. He coached the club until 2006. In 2008, he returned to Nagoya Grampus and became an assistant coach. In September 2011, he moved to Shimizu S-Pulse and became a coach as goalkeeper coach Masanori Sanada successor.^[5] In 2013, he moved to South Korea and became a goalkeeper coach for Suwon Samsung Bluewings. He coached the club until 2014.

Club statistics

References

External links

• Dido Havenaar at J.League (in Japanese)
• Yokohama F. Marinos profile
• Shimizu S-Pulse profile
• ADO Statistics