Jan Olde Riekerink
Jan Olde Riekerink is a Dutch football coach and former professional player who manages South African club Cape Town City.Career
Playing career
Born in Hengelo, Olde Riekerink played professionally for Sparta Rotterdam, FC Dordrecht and Telstar between 1985 and 1993.Coaching career
Olde Riekerink worked at Ajax as a youth coach from 1995 to 2002. He later managed Belgian club Gent and Dutch club FC Emmen, and has also been Assistant Manager at Portuguese club Porto and Ukrainian club Metalurh Donetsk. He was appointed Head of Youth Development of Jong Ajax in April 2007., on 15 June it was announced that Olde Riekerink would give up his position at the club after irreconcilable differences with new board-member Johan Cruyff.
He became manager of Turkish club Galatasaray in March 2016. Under Olde Riekerink, Galatasaray won 1-0 against Fenerbahçe in the 2016 Turkish Cup Final on 26 May 2016. He was sacked in February 2017.
He was manager of Dutch club SC Heerenveen from 2018 to April 2019.
On 6 November 2019 he was presented as the new coach of South African club Cape Town City.Personal life
His brother Edwin was also a professional player.
