Robbie Servais (born 8 March 1976) is a former Dutch

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 le ...

and current assistant manager of MVV Maastricht.

Club career

Born in

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

, Servais was involved in the youth set-up at hometown club MVV Maastricht. Whilst studying at Maastricht University, Servais joined

SV Meerssen SV Meerssen is a football club from Meerssen, Netherlands. Meerssen plays in the Sunday Hoofdklasse B (4th tier) in the 2017–18 season. History Meerssen became Hoofdklasse champions in the 1993–94 and 2002–03 seasons. At that time, the Hoo ...

, playing under

Bert van Marwijk Lambertus van Marwijk (; born 19 May 1952) is a Dutch football manager who was recently the head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. As a player, he played for the Go Ahead Eagles, AZ, MVV and Fortuna Sittard amongst other clubs a ...

. Following a six-year spell at Meerssen, Servais played for

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie, formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league is divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunday. This is a result of ...

clubs and

VV Baronie VV Baronie is a Dutch amateur association football club based in Breda. History The club was founded on July 4, 1926, and has always been the second club of the city, being overshadowed by the far more successful NAC Breda. In 1955 the club ent ...

. At the end of his career, Servais moved to

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

to play for

Song Lam Nghe An Song Lam Nghe An Football Club (), simply known as Song Lam Nghe An or SLNA, is a professional V.League 1 football club playing at the Vinh Stadium in the city of Vinh, Nghe An province, Vietnam. The club was named based on the Lam river. ...

Managerial career

In 2018, Servais managed Singapore U19. During the

2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...

, Servais was a part of former manager Bert van Marwijk's backroom staff for

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. In May 2019, Servais was appointed manager of

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

. In the summer 2019, Servais was appointed assistant manager of Fuat Usta at MVV Maastricht. He also took charge of MVV's U-19 squad from the summer 2020. On 30 March 2021, Servais signed a new two-year deal with MVV, continuing as a part-time first team assistant coach and full-time U-21 manager.MVV verlengt contract Robbie Servais met twee jaar
mvv.nl, 30 March 2021

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* * 1976 births Living people Footballers from Maastricht Dutch men's footballers Men's association football midfielders V.League 1 players SV Meerssen players Song Lam Nghe An FC players Dutch football managers Brunei national football team managers Dutch expatriate men's footballers Dutch expatriate football managers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Brunei Expatriate football managers in Brunei Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Singapore Expatriate football managers in Singapore VV Baronie players {{Netherlands-footy-bio-stub