Dwight Lodeweges facts for kids
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dwight Lodeweges | ||
| Date of birth | 26 October 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1975 | V.V.O.P. | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1979 | Go Ahead Eagles | ||
| 1979–1982 | Edmonton Drillers | 96 | (10) |
| 1982–1983 | Go Ahead Eagles | 17 | (0) |
| 1983 | Montreal Manic | 29 | (1) |
| 1984–1988 | Minnesota Strikers (indoor) | 130 | (29) |
| 1988–1989 | Go Ahead Eagles | 32 | (0) |
| 1990–1992 | Go Ahead Eagles | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 305 | (40) | |
| International career | |||
| 1978 | Netherlands U-21 | 6 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1989–1990 | Go Ahead Eagles (Youth Head Coach) | ||
| 1990–1995 | Go Ahead Eagles (assistant coach) | ||
| 1995–1998 | VVOG | ||
| 1998–2001 | FC Zwolle | ||
| 2001 | FC Groningen | ||
| 2002 | Groningen II | ||
| 2003 | FC Groningen (assistant) | ||
| 2003–2004 | SC Heerenveen (assistant) | ||
| 2004–2005 | Al-Jazira (assistant) | ||
| 2006–2007 | Nagoya Grampus (assistant) | ||
| 2007–2008 | PSV U-19 (assistant) | ||
| 2008–2009 | PSV (assistant) | ||
| 2009 | PSV | ||
| 2009 | NEC | ||
| 2010 | FC Edmonton | ||
| 2011 | JEF United | ||
| 2013–2014 | Cambuur | ||
| 2014–2015 | Heerenveen | ||
| 2017–2018 | PEC Zwolle (assistant) | ||
| 2018– | Netherlands (assistant) | ||
| 2020 | Netherlands (caretaker) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dwight Lodeweges, born on October 26, 1957, is a football coach and former player. He was born in Canada but is also Dutch. He played as a defender during his career. Today, he is one of the assistant coaches for the Netherlands national football team. He has also stepped in as a temporary head coach for the Netherlands team a couple of times. This happened in 2020 and again in 2021.
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Coaching Career
Dwight Lodeweges has had a long and interesting career in football coaching. He has worked with many different teams, often as an assistant coach, but also as a head coach.
Early Coaching Roles
After he stopped playing, Lodeweges started coaching. He worked with the youth team and then as an assistant coach for Go Ahead Eagles. Later, he became the head coach for clubs like VVOG and FC Zwolle. He also spent time as an assistant coach at FC Groningen and SC Heerenveen.
Leading Major Teams
In 2009, Lodeweges became the head coach of PSV Eindhoven for a short time. He finished the season with them. After that, he moved to NEC, where he was the head coach for a period.
He also coached teams outside of the Netherlands. In 2010, he was named the head coach of FC Edmonton in Canada. Later that year, he moved to Japan to coach JEF United Chiba in the J2 League.
Coaching in the Dutch Premier Division
In 2013, Lodeweges returned to the Netherlands to coach SC Cambuur in the top Dutch league. He then moved to their rival team, SC Heerenveen, in 2014. With Heerenveen, his team finished seventh in the 2014–15 season. He left the club in October 2015.
Coaching the National Team
Since 2018, Dwight Lodeweges has been an assistant coach for the Netherlands national football team. He has twice taken on the role of caretaker manager for the national team. This means he temporarily took charge when the main coach left. He did this in 2020 after Ronald Koeman left, and again in 2021 after Frank de Boer resigned.
Coaching Records
This table shows Dwight Lodeweges's record as a head coach for some of the teams he managed. It lists the number of games (G), wins (W), draws (D), and losses (L), along with the win percentage.
| Team | Year(s) | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||
| JEF United | 2011 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 46.67 |
| Netherlands (caretaker) | 2020 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Total | 32 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 46.88 | |
See also
In Spanish: Dwight Lodeweges para niños
