Rini Coolen (born 10 February 1967) is a Dutch retired football defender and currently the Head of the Feyenoord Academy.

Club career

Coolen played professionally for Go Ahead Eagles,

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and AZ.

Managerial career

He retired in 1995 and became a football manager who worked for Heracles Almelo,

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and

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. He left FC Twente by mutual agreement on 1 February 2006. In November 2008 he signed for

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as the successor of released coach

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. In 2010, he was appointed manager of A-League club Adelaide United. His inaugural season with Adelaide United proved to be a success, taking the club from their disastrous last place finish in the 2009-10 season to third place in the 2010-11 season. His time at the club was marred with off-field dramas, most notably surrounding former Reds captain

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who moved to

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. Coolen proposed a plan to the club and started rebuilding the team after being signed to a four-year contract. Coolen released several players including Travis Dodd,

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, Adam Hughes and Lucas Pantelis. Imports brought in by Coolen such as Evgeniy Levchenko,

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and Andwele Slory failed to make an impact. After a poor start to the 2011/2012 season, it was announced on 18 December 2011, that Coolen would be replaced by former Adelaide United coach

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. He was supposed to stay at the club as the youth team coach, however on 21 December 2011, it was announced that he had left the club. Coolen took the club to court for breaching his four-year contract and was awarded $400,000 in an out-of-court settlement. In 2015 he was coach of the

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for 6 weeks. In August 2016, Coolen left his post as Academy boss at

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to join

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as his assistant at Al Shabab in Dubai. On 19 July 2018, Coolen was appointed interim manager of Rosenborg. On 11 June 2020,

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announced that Coolen had signed a 2-year contract with the club to become the coach of the club's new Under-21 team from the 2020–2021 season. On 21 May 2021, Feyenoord announced that Coolen would become the new head of the club's youth academy.

Honours

Rosenborg *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coolen, Rini 1967 births Living people Footballers from Arnhem Dutch footballers Association football defenders Heracles Almelo players Go Ahead Eagles players AZ Alkmaar players De Graafschap players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Dutch football managers Dutch expatriate football managers FC Twente managers AGOVV Apeldoorn managers RBC Roosendaal managers Adelaide United FC managers Aruba national football team managers Expatriate soccer managers in Australia Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Australia Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates A-League Men managers Expatriate football managers in Norway Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Norway Rosenborg BK managers Eliteserien managers FC Twente non-playing staff