Michel Langerak (born 8 July 1968) is a Dutch professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

and former player who is currently the assistant coach at

Kozakken Boys Kozakken Boys () is a Dutch football club based in Werkendam. It competes in the , the fourth tier, and second highest amateur league of Dutch football. Formed as Steeds Voorwaarts Werkendam (SVW) in 1932, it adopted its current name in 1935. K ...

Playing career

Langerak played professionally from 1987 to 2003. He started his career with

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, ...

, which had changed its name from 1990–91 to Dordrecht '90. He made his debut as a professional football player on 13 December 1987 in a 1–2 loss to

Sparta Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...

, when he came on as a substitute for Kees Koudstaal at halftime. In 1991, Langerak was sent on a six-month loan deal VVV. He returned to Dordrecht, which had merged with SVV to form SVV/Dordrecht '90, which from 12 September 1992 was again called Dordrecht '90. In 1996, Langerak moved to

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...

where he would play for a year and a half. After this, he played for AZ (1997–99) and ended his professional career at Sparta Rotterdam (1999–02). Langerak played as an

attacking midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

. He made a total of 420 appearances in professional football and scored 103 goals. After retiring from professional football, he began playing in the amateur

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie (; "Fourth Division"), formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...

, first with Deltasport and since

FC Lienden FC Lienden is a football club from Lienden, Netherlands. The club was established on 1 August 1930. History In the 2010s, the club saw a rise through the Dutch football pyramid, under the guidance of former professional player Hans Kraay Jr. ...

Managerial career

Lanegerak started coaching for the youth teams of

Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam. Established on 1 April 1888, Sparta Rotterdam is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands. Sparta currently competes in the Eredivisie, the top flig ...

(2003–2005) and

TOP Oss TOP Oss (), is a professional association football club based in the town of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. Founded in 1928 as T.O.P., a Dutch abbrevia ...

(2005–2006). Next he became the head coach of

De Zwerver Kinderdijkse Voetbalvereniging "De Zwerver" (official name) is an association football club from Kinderdijk, Netherlands. It was founded on 12 June 1933 and plays in a red-black kit at Sportpark De Schans. Since 1919, its first squad plays in the S ...

(2006–07),

LRC Leerdam Leerdamse Racing Club uit Leerdam, known as LRC Leerdam, is a football club from Leerdam, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1958. The first male squad plays in the Eerste Klasse since 2016, when it relegated after a year in the Hoofdklasse T ...

(2007–10),

(2010–13),

ASWH ASWH, short for Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. It won section championships in 1949, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1883, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, a ...

(2013–15), VV Sliedrecht (2016–18), and once more of Kozakken Boys (2018–19). Alongside, he works at the Oudehoven Lyceum in

Gorinchem Gorinchem ( ), pronunciation respelling, also spelled Gorkum, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. It had a population of in . The munici ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Langerak, Michel 1968 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Dutch football managers Kozakken Boys managers ASWH managers Footballers from Dordrecht Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players FC Lienden players FC Dordrecht players VVV-Venlo players NEC Nijmegen players AZ Alkmaar players Sparta Rotterdam players Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Dutch sportsmen