Rein Baart (born 13 April 1972 in

Oosterbeek Oosterbeek is a village in the eastern part of Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Renkum in the province of Gelderland, about west of Arnhem. The oldest part of Oosterbeek is the Benedendorp (Lower Village), on the northern bank ...

), is a

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former

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er.

Career

Netherlands

Baart has extensive experience playing in the

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (; ) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the Keuken Kampioen Divisie due to sponsorship reasons, while ...

in the Netherlands, having played for

TOP Oss TOP Oss (), is a professional association football club based in the town of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. Founded in 1928 as T.O.P., a Dutch abbrevia ...

VVV-Venlo VVV-Venlo (, ''VVV'' stands for ''Venlose Voetbal Vereniging'' meaning "Venlo Football Club") is a Dutch association football, football club from Venlo, a city on the border with Germany. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutc ...

SV Babberich Sportvereniging Babberich is a Dutch football club based in Babberich which was founded in 1930. It competes in the Vijfde Klasse since 2017. History Located in a small village, Babberich managed to play in the Hoofdklasse from 1988 to 2012 and ...

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; ) is a professional football club from the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was establi ...

. He was part of the

team which won promotion to the

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...

at the end of the 2006/2007 season, before moving to and

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...

; he spent the next four years in Nijmegen, but only made one league start for the team.

Canada

Baart was signed by coach

Dwight Lodeweges Dwight Lodeweges (born 26 October 1957) is a Canadian–born Dutch football coach and former professional player. He is currently one of the assistant managers of the Netherlands national team. In 2020, after Ronald Koeman left to join Barcelo ...

to play for

FC Edmonton FC Edmonton was a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club was founded in 2010 and competed in the North American Soccer League (2011–2017), North American Soccer League (NASL) from 2011 t ...

in 2010, and played in several exhibition games prior to the team's first season in the

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League (NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the ...

. He made his competitive debut for the team in their first official game on April 9, 2011, a 2-1 victory over the

Fort Lauderdale Strikers Fort Lauderdale Strikers may refer to: *Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983), member of North American Soccer League from 1977 to 1983 *Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1988–1994) The Fort Lauderdale Strikers were an American soccer team establishe ...

. At the end of the 2011 season, Edmonton announced that Baart had declined a contract offer and would not return to the club in 2012.

References

External links

Voetbal International profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baart, Rein 1972 births Living people People from Renkum Footballers from Gelderland Men's association football goalkeepers Dutch men's footballers Dutch expatriate men's footballers FC Edmonton players TOP Oss players Fortuna Sittard players NEC Nijmegen players VVV-Venlo players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Canada VVV-Venlo non-playing staff