Virgil Breetveld

Virgil Breetveld (born 10 July 1967)^[7] is a Dutch football coach and former professional player.

Virgil Breetveld

Personal information
Date of birth	(1967-07-10) 10 July 1967 (age 58)
Place of birth	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Steeds Hoger
	Germinal Schiebroek
	Feyenoord
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1988	Feyenoord	4	(0)
1988–1991	SVV	84	(15)
1991–1994	Dordrecht	69	(30)
1994–1998	De Graafschap	73	(16)
1998–1999	Excelsior	29	(14)
1999–2000	Fortuna Düsseldorf	12	(0)
Total		271	(75)
Managerial career
2003–2005	SC Reeland
2006–2007	EBOH (Sunday)
2009–2010	EBOH (Saturday)
2011–2013	Wieldrecht
2011–2012[1]	FC Dordrecht (assistant)
2012[2]	FC Dordrecht (interim)
2012–2013	FC Dordrecht (assistant)
2013[3]	FC Dordrecht (interim)
2013–2017[4]	SteDoCo
2017–2019[5]	Ido's Football Club[6]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Born in Rotterdam, Breetveld played youth football for Steeds Hoger and Germinal Schiebroek,^[8] before signing for Feyenoord at the age of 17.^[9] Breetveld had not considered a professional football career, but was encouraged to pursue it by his coach Dick Beek, who himself had been a professional player.^[9] He made his debut for the first-team in April 1988.^[9] He later played for SVV, Dordrecht, De Graafschap, Excelsior and Fortuna Düsseldorf.^[9][10] He was top scorer of the Eerste Divisie in the 1994–95 season.^[10] He retired from professional football in November 2000.^[9]

After retiring as a player, Breetveld worked as a broker and let holiday apartments in Brazil.^[9] He was also manager of amateur side SC Reeland from 2003 to 2005,^[10] as well as EBOH and Wieldrecht.^[11]

He became an assistant manager at Dordrecht after signing a one-year contract in May 2011,^[11] combining his role there with his position as manager of Wieldrecht,^[12] and working 6 days a week in both roles.^[12] He signed a contract extension with Dordrecht in April 2012.^[13] He left his role with Dordrecht in 2013,^[9] and in September 2014 was working as manager of amateur team SteDoCo.^[9] In May 2017, Breetveld finished his employment at Stedoco.^[4] In the summer of 2017 he was appointed coach of the Sunday and Saturday first squads of Ido's Football Club.^[6]