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20/01/2009Another fresh start for Feyenoord

NEC coach Mario Been possible successor to sacked Verbeek

Dutch Premier League football club Feyenoord parted company with coach Gertjan Verbeek after a disappointing first half of the season, the club said at an emotional news conference on Wednesday.

Gertjan Verbeek
       Gertjan Verbeek (left) and Peter Bosz
       at Wednesday's press conference

The 46-year-old coach joined the Rotterdam club in July 2008, but never got the team on track. Feyenoord are 12th in Dutch premier division, 22 points behind leaders AZ Alkmaar and only five points above the relegation zone.

Ironically, despite the poor results, there weren't many people who wanted to see the back of Verbeek. The former successful Heracles Almelo and Heerenveen coach still enjoyed the support of his technical staff, of Feyenoord general director Eric Gudde, and of most of the club's loyal supporters.

But, more importantly, he didn't seem to get on with key players, who blamed Verbeek for gruelling training sessions and a lack of consistency. One of the group, Kevin Hofland, told Feyenoord president Dick van Well on Monday, that "things couldn't go on like this".

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