Remy Reynierse (also written as Remy Reijnierse; born 18 June 1961), is a current assistant manager at

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. He is a former

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and former player. As a player, he served

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(now known as FC Eindhoven) and

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(now known as VVV-Venlo). As a manager, he has coached VVV, the

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and several other representative teams of the

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Playing career

Reynierse was born in

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and started playing football as an

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with

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club

in 1979. After making 124 league appearances, he moved to fellow Eerste Divisie side

in 1984. During the 1984–85 season, he helped the club achieve promotion to the

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. Reynierse saw VVV avoid relegation during the 1985–86 season, and they subsequently accomplished two consecutive fifth-place finishes during the 1986–87 and 1987–88 seasons. During this time, he played alongside future Dutch international

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. However, they were relegated at the end of the 1988–89 season. After one more Eerste Divisie season, Reynierse retired from professional football in 1990, having made 188 league appearances for VVV and 312 in total.

Managerial career

In 1986, Reynierse started his managerial career with VVV, even before he had retired as a player. After his retirement, he became head of academy. In 1994, he became head coach at the request of the board, who were looking to replace outgoing manager

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. After one season, he returned to his former post as head of the academy. In 1998, he moved to

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to fulfill the same role, which he eventually did for three years. In 2001, Reynierse signed with the

, where he would become the manager of several national youth teams. In 2004, he coached the

on an interim basis for a total of four games. As assistant of

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head coach

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, Reynierse helped ''Jong Oranje'' to win the 2006 and

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UEFA European Under-21 Championships and to reach the quarter-finals at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Aside from managing national youth teams, Reynierse also worked as youth scout and as developer of the youth academies of Dutch professional football clubs. On 1 June 2016,

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announced that Reynierse and

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would become the assistants of new head coach

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, starting from 1 July. However, on 15 September, Luhukay parted ways with Stuttgart on mutual agreement, and Reynierse was also released from the club. On 8 January 2018, he joined

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to become assistant to new manager

. On 13 January 2020, he joined

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to become assistant manager to

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. On 14 June 2022, he joined

to become assistant manager to

once again.

References

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