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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ernstus Wilhelmus Johannes Brandts | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1956-02-03)3 February 1956 (age 70) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nieuw-Dijk, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| De Sprinkhanen | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1974–1977 | De Graafschap | 38 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1977–1986 | PSV | 251 | (23) | |||||||||||
| 1986–1989 | Roda JC | 68 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | MVV | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Germinal Ekeren | 59 | (5) | |||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | De Graafschap | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 452 | (34) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1985 | Netherlands | 28 | (5) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–2002 | PSV (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | RKSV Nuenen | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | FC Volendam | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | NAC | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | Rah Ahan | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | APR | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Young Africans | |||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | FC Dordrecht | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | RKVV DIA | |||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | N.E.C. (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | FC Eindhoven (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | FC Eindhoven | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Ernstus Wilhelmus Johannes "Ernie" Brandts (born 3 February 1956) is a Dutchfootball manager and former player.
Born inDidam, he played for local club De Sprinkhanen before joiningDe Graafschap at 17. After three seasons he moved on toPSV with whom he won twoEredivisie league titles in seven seasons.[2] He later played forRoda JC,MVV and Belgian sideGerminal Ekeren[3] before returning to his first professional club De Graafschap.
Brandts earned 28 caps and scored five goals for theNetherlands national team[4] and played in the1978 FIFA World Cup.[5] In a second-round match againstItaly, he became the first player to score goals for both teams in the same match in the World Cup Final Tournament. He scored anown goal in the 18th minute, and then scored the equalizer for the Netherlands in the 50th minute. His teammateArie Haan eventually scored the winning goal, giving the Netherlands a 2–1 win.
Brandts began as an assistant manager at PSV, and has managedFC Volendam andNAC Breda as well as clubs in Iran and Africa.[6]
Halfway through the 2007–08 season, Brandts was informed that his contract as head trainer of NAC would not be extended, despite the best results (third position in2007–08 Eredivisie) NAC Breda had seen for a long time. This decision was not taken lightly by the NAC Breda supporters - despite all the complaints the NAC top directors went ahead with their plan.[7] Brandts was replaced byRobert Maaskant at the beginning of the 2008–09 season.
He was appointed as the coach of Iranian sideRah Ahan in summer of 2009[8]and he was appointed coach of Rwandan army club APR in 2010[9] and achieved the double. In 2012–13 he was coach ofYoung Africans and won all the cups. On 25 December 2013, he left the club with a mutual consent agree by both parties.[10]
He returned to the Netherlands and started as head coach of FC Dordrecht in June 2014,[11] but after a decent start of their Eredivisie campaign Brandts decided with agreement of the club to stop in February 2015.[12] Brandts was named assistant manager atN.E.C. in 2016.[13]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 4 | |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1980 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 5 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 June 1978 | Estadio Córdoba,Córdoba, Argentina |  Austria | 1–0 | 5–1 | 1978 FIFA World Cup |
| 2 | 21 June 1978 | Estadio Monumental,Buenos Aires, Argentina |  Italy | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1978 FIFA World Cup |
| 3 | 20 September 1978 | Goffertstadion,Nijmegen, Netherlands |  Iceland | 2–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 1980 qualification |
| 4 | 11 October 1978 | Wankdorfstadion,Bern, Switzerland |  Switzerland | 2–1 | 3–1 | UEFA Euro 1980 qualification |
| 5 | 11 October 1980 | Philips Stadion,Eindhoven, Netherlands |  West Germany | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
During the 1978 FIFA World Cup, Brandts made an own goal in thematch against Italy.
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