Koos Waslander (born 3 February 1957) is a Dutch football

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and former player. He was most recently head coach of Dutch Tweede Klasse club

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Career

Born in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, Waslander played in the Netherlands and the United States for

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, Fort Lauderdale Strikers,

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 ...

PEC Zwolle PEC Zwolle is a Dutch football club based in Zwolle, Netherlands. They play in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football, following relegation from the Eredivisie in the 2021–22 season. They have played in the Eredivisie for a tot ...

and

DS'79 Football Club Dordrecht, or simply FC Dordrecht () is a professional Dutch association football club based in Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. They currently compete in the Eerste Divisie ...

. Waslander holds the record for the quickest goal in the

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 ...

, scoring after eight seconds. With the Fort Lauderdale Strikers he was a Soccer Bowl '80 runner up. In the final, won 3-0 by New York Cosmos in September 1980, he entered the match as a substitute five minutes before half-time for the injured German striker

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Coaching career

Waslander coached numerous teams in the Netherlands after his retirement, most notably VV Spijkenisse,

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, and

. He also worked as an assistant and youth coach at

References

1957 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Footballers from Rotterdam Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States Men's association football midfielders Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Excelsior Rotterdam players NAC Breda players PEC Zwolle players FC Dordrecht players Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983) players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players RBC Roosendaal managers VV DOVO managers VV Spijkenisse managers Dutch football managers {{Netherlands-footy-midfielder-stub