Eric Hellemons (born 2 June 1971) is a Dutch former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

and current football coach, as assistant manager of

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is ...

club

NAC Breda NAC Breda (), often simply known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Eerste Divi ...

Playing career

A former defender, Hellemons played in the youth at SC Kruisland before he arrived at

RBC Roosendaal RBC, commonly known under its previous official name RBC Roosendaal, is a football club based in Roosendaal, Netherlands. RBC currently plays in the seventh-tier Tweede Klasse after a bankruptcy in 2011, restarting the club in tenth tier Vijfde ...

. Between 1988 and 2005 he played 358 matches in the first team, also captaining the club, and owns the club record as the player with the highest number of played games.

Coaching career

After retiring, he stayed at RBC as a coaching staff member, serving since January 2006 as assistant coach. In June 2011 he was about to be named as new head coach, a move that did not come to fruition as the club went bankrupt. Hellemons then agreed to pair with former RBC manager

Fuat Çapa Fuat Çapa (born 15 August 1968) is a Turkish football manager. Career Çapa coached in Belgium before moving on to Turkey. His career in Belgium spanned four years as he held positions with K.V. Turnhout, K. Patro Maasmechelen, K. Beringen-H ...

as assistant coach at Gençlerbirliği SK in Turkey. In June 2012 he was named new head coach of Dutch amateur club

HSV Hoek Hoekse Sportvereniging Hoek, known as HSV Hoek, is a football club based in Hoek, Zeeland, Netherlands, that competes in the Derde Divisie. History The club was founded in 1950. Indian football legend Syed Abdul Rahim has appeared with the clu ...

, a position he maintained just until November of the same year. In January 2013, it was announced he would become new head coach of

Derde Klasse The ('Third Class') is the eighth tier of football in the Netherlands Football is the most popular sport in the Netherlands. Football was introduced to the Netherlands by Pim Mulier in the 19th century when in 1879, at the age of 14, he fo ...

amateurs SC Gastel, effective from July 2013; he left his role in October 2014. In July 2014 he joined Eredivisie club

as an assistant coach, while maintaining his role as head coach at SC Gastel. In October 2014, Hellemons was named caretaker manager of

following the dismissal of Nebojša Gudelj.

References

External links

Profile at Voetbal International
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hellemons, Eric 1971 births Living people Dutch men's footballers RBC Roosendaal players People from Steenbergen Men's association football defenders Footballers from North Brabant Association football coaches Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Gençlerbirliği S.K. non-playing staff NAC Breda non-playing staff