Rini Coolen

Rini Coolen (born 10 February 1967) is a Dutch retired football defender and manager. He was last interim head coach of Norwegian Eliteserien team Rosenborg.

Rini Coolen
Personal information
Full name Marinus Johannes Coolen
Date of birth (1967-02-10) 10 February 1967
Place of birth Arnhem, Netherlands
Playing position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1988 Go Ahead Eagles 64 (1)
1988–1994 Heracles 149 (5)
1989–1990 → De Graafschap (loan) 3 (0)
1994–1996 AZ 24 (0)
Teams managed
1996–1999 Heracles Almelo (assistant coach)
1999–2002 FC Twente (second team coach)
2002–2004 FC Twente (assistant coach)
2004–2006 FC Twente
2006–2007 AGOVV
2008–2010 RBC
2010–2011 Adelaide United
2015 Aruba
2018 Rosenborg (interim)
2020– Feyenoord U21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Coolen played professionally for Go Ahead Eagles, Heracles, De Graafschap and AZ.

Managerial career

He retired in 1995 and became a football manager who worked for Heracles Almelo, FC Twente and AGOVV Apeldoorn. He left FC Twente by mutual agreement on 1 February 2006. In November 2008 he signed for RBC Roosendaal as the successor of released coach Rob Meppelink. In 2010, he was appointed manager of A-League club Adelaide United.

His inaugural season with Adelaide United proved to be a success, taking the club from their disastrous last place finish in the 2009-10 season to third place in the 2010-11 season. His time at the club was marred with off-field dramas, most notably surrounding former Reds captain Travis Dodd who moved to Perth Glory.[1] Coolen proposed a plan to the club and started rebuilding the team after being signed to a four-year contract.[2][3]

Coolen released several players including Travis Dodd, Paul Reid, Adam Hughes and Lucas Pantelis. Imports brought in by Coolen such as Evgeniy Levchenko, Ricardo Da Silva and Andwele Slory failed to make an impact.[4] After a poor start to the 2011/2012 season, it was announced on 18 December 2011, that Coolen would be replaced by former Adelaide United coach John Kosmina. He was supposed to stay at the club as the youth team coach,[5] however on 21 December 2011, it was announced that he had left the club.[6] Coolen took the club to court for breaching his four-year contract and was awarded $400,000 in an out-of-court settlement.[7]

In 2015 he was coach of the Aruba national football team for 6 weeks.[8]

In August 2016, Coolen left his post as Academy boss at PEC Zwolle to join Fred Rutten as his assistant at Al Shabab in Dubai.[9]

On 19 July 2018, Coolen was appointed interim manager of Rosenborg.

On 11 June 2020, Feyenoord announced that Coolen had signed a 2-year contract with the club to become the coach of the club's new Under-21 team from the 2020–2021 season.[10]

Honours

Rosenborg

References
  1. Earle, Richard (2 March 2011). "Rini didn't want me: Dodd". The Advertiser. Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  2. http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1044145/Coolen-accepts-four-year-deal
  3. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/878025?cc=3436
  4. http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/223598,slorys-adelaide-united-row-boils-over.aspx
  5. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/john-kosmina-returns-as-coach-to-adelaide-united-after-axing-of-rini-coolen/story-fn63e0vj-1226225046657
  6. http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1086443/coolen-walks-out-on-reds
  7. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/adelaide-united-to-pay-more-than-400000-to-former-coach-rini-coolen/story-fndmcgmh-1226559023350
  8. Coolen trots na onvergetelijk tropisch avontuur met Aruba - Voetbal International (in Dutch)
  9. Rini Coolen naar club Fred Rutten in Dubai - AD (in Dutch)
  10. "Rini Coolen trainer Feyenoord Onder 21". www.feyenoord.nl (in Dutch). 11 June 2020.

Statistics
As of 13 December 2018
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Adelaide United 5 July 2010 18 December 2011 50 21 10 19 70 62 +8 042.00
Rosenborg (Interim) 19 July 2018 31 December 2018 29 16 6 7 46 33 +13 055.17
Total 79 37 16 26 118 95 +23 046.84
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