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Alexander Anton Aiko Pastoor (; born 26 October 1966) is a Dutch
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and former player who is the assistant coach of the Indonesia national team.


Career

A former midfielder, Pastoor spent most of his career at
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, playing with the North-Hollanders from 1989 to 1995. Later on he continued his career at
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, and then in Belgium (with KRC Harelbeke) and Austria (with Austria Lustenau) before retiring in 2001.


Managerial career


Early career

After his retirement from football as a player, Pastoor entered into management as youth coach of
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in the 2001–02 season. From 2002 to 2005 he stayed in
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, as head coach of local amateurs AFC'34. He was successively appointed as reserve team coach of Fenerbahçe for the 2005–06 season, and then as
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's assistant at his former club
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from 2006 to 2008. He was then appointed as youth coach of top-ranked Dutch club
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for the 2008–09 season.


Excelsior

In July 2009, he took his first head coaching job at a professional level, becoming the boss of Rotterdam-based club
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, a satellite club of Feyenoord. Under his tenure, the small
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side, mostly composed by youngsters on loan from the parent club (and thus all former players of Pastoor under his tenure at Feyenoord), went on to end the regular season in third place and qualify to the promotion playoffs, where they defeated crosstown rivals
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in a tense two-legged final and ensured a historic promotion to the
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.


NEC

In the summer of 2011, Pastoor moved to
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, where he succeeded Wiljan Vloet. He signed a contract until 2013. He guided the team to eighth place in the Eredivisie in his first season. In the play-offs for European contention, NEC were eliminated by rivals Vitesse. In March 2013, he extended his contract until 2014. After a poor start to the 2013–14 season, Pastoor was dismissed on 19 August, two days after a 5–1 defeat at home against
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. It was the fastest dismissal ever in an Eredivisie season. He was temporarily succeeded by Ron de Groot and Wilfried Brookhuis, Pastoor's former assistant and goalkeeper coach. At the end of August, Anton Janssen was appointed as Pastoor's permanent replacement.


Slavia Prague and AZ

On 3 March 2014 Pastoor was appointed manager at
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After a short time in the club, he decided not to extend his contract and instead took the assistant coach role at AZ Alkmaar, coached by
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. On 15 September 2014, Alex Pastoor was assigned as caretaker after health problems resulted in
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having to step down to the position of assistant. He was sacked by the club after refusing to sign a contract for only nine months.


Sparta Rotterdam

During the winter break of the 2014–15 season, Pastoor was appointed the new head coach of second-tier Eerste Divisie club
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. After he took over the club in sixth place in the table, he finished the season with Sparta in eighth place. In his second season, he won the Eerste Divisie title with Sparta and promoted to the Eredivisie. The 2016–17 season ended in 15th place in the top division. In December 2017, Sparta parted ways with Pastoor. At that point, after 17 match days, Sparta were bottom of the league.


Rheindorf Altach

In March 2019, Pastoor became coach of
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club
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, for whom he had already played as a player. At the time of his appointment, Altach were one point above of the relegation zone in penultimate place in the league table. Under the Dutchman, the Vorarlberg side stabilised again and finally managed to stay in the league at the end of the season, eight points ahead of relegated
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. In the 2019–20 season, they were in mid-table for the entire season and finished the season in eighth place, which meant they were eligible to play-offs for European football, although they were eliminated in the first round by
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. In the 2020–21 season, they were again in a relegation battle throughout the season, and in February 2021, Pastoor was released with Altach bottom of the league table. On 23 February 2021, he was sacked from the team that was last in the Bundesliga.


Almere City

Pastoor was named manager of
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side Almere City in December 2021. Under his tenure, Almere City won their first ever promotion to the
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in the 2022–23 season.


Indonesia

On 8 January 2025, Pastoor was appointed as an assistant coach for the Indonesia national team under
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.


Honours


Manager

Sparta Rotterdam *
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: 2015–16


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pastoor, Alex 1966 births Living people Footballers from Amsterdam Men's association football midfielders Dutch men's footballers FC Volendam players SC Austria Lustenau players SC Heerenveen players Eredivisie players Belgian Pro League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Dutch football managers Excelsior Rotterdam managers NEC Nijmegen managers AZ Alkmaar managers Sparta Rotterdam managers Almere City FC managers Expatriate football managers in the Czech Republic K.R.C. Zuid-West-Vlaanderen players Dutch expatriate football managers SC Rheindorf Altach players Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Austria Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic SK Slavia Prague managers Expatriate football managers in Austria SC Heerenveen non-playing staff AZ Alkmaar non-playing staff Dutch football coaches SC Rheindorf Altach managers 20th-century Dutch sportsmen