Marco Roelofsen (born 3 October 1968) is a Dutch professional

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and former

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, who is the current head coach of sixth-tier

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club Go-Ahead Kampen.

Playing career

A former

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, Roelofsen started his professional career in the 1987–88 season as part of the

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team. He later also played for

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and

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. He retired in 2004.

Managerial career

In the summer of 2004, Roelofsen was included in the technical staff of

, where he became head coach of the under-19 team. At the end of the 2008–09 season, he became the first team's caretaker coach, replacing

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, who had been temporarily suspended. In the summer of 2010, he moved to PSV, where he became the head coach of the second team,

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. On 3 July 2013, it was announced that Roelofsen would become the new coach of the

under-21 team after having signed a one-year contract. Roelofsen, who played for Heerenveen from 1991 to 1996, succeeded

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who left for

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. In the 2014–15 season, Roelofsen was coach of Vitesse under-19 team until February 2015. Roelofsen then became head coach of

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from November 2015 to October 2017. Roelofsen became head coach of Go-Ahead Kampen in the sixth-tier

from the 2018–19 season.

Personal life

His nephew, Richard Roelofsen, also played football on the highest level in the Netherlands.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roelofsen, Marco 1968 births Living people Footballers from Harderwijk Dutch men's footballers Dutch football managers Men's association football midfielders FC Twente players NEC Nijmegen players PEC Zwolle players SC Heerenveen players PEC Zwolle managers Sparta Nijkerk managers PEC Zwolle non-playing staff PSV Eindhoven non-playing staff SC Heerenveen non-playing staff SBV Vitesse non-playing staff VVOG players 20th-century Dutch sportsmen