Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 4 December 1963 | ||
Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Pune (Head Coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
Feyenoord | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–1982 | Feyenoord | 1 | (0) |
1982–1988 | Excelsior | 137 | (0) |
1988–1993 | Sparta Rotterdam | 133 | (1) |
Total | 271 | (1) | |
Teams managed | |||
2002–2003 | Vitesse Arnhem | ||
2003–2005 | Sparta Rotterdam | ||
2005–2008 | Go Ahead Eagles | ||
2008–2009 | Panathinaikos (assistant) | ||
2009–2011 | Umm Salal (assistant) | ||
2012 | Shandong Luneng Taishan (assistant) | ||
2013–2014 | Pune FC | ||
2015–Present | Metalurh Zaporizhya (Technical Director) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Mike Snoei (born 4 December 1963) is a former Dutch football player and is the Technical Director of Metalurh Zaporizhya in Ukraine. During his playing days, Snoei played for Excelsior and Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie from 1982–1993. He was a member of the Dutch squad at the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Born in Rotterdam, Snoei managed to carve out a ten-year playing career in the Netherlands in the top-tier Eredivisie and second-tier Eerste Divisie. He started his footballing career as a youth with Feyenoord, the biggest club in Rotterdam, before moving to second division side S.B.V. Excelsior. He stayed with Excelsior for six years from 1982 to 1986 before joining Sparta Rotterdam. While with Sparta, Snoei played in the Dutch top tier Eredivisie.
Unfortunately, Snoei had to retire from the game in 1993 due to torn knee ligaments at the age of 29.
Following retirement from professional football, Snoei became a youth coach in the Netherlands, coaching various clubs from 1993 to 1996. Then in 1996, Snoei joined the Vitesse youth organization where he eventually rose to head coach of the main youth team at the club.
In 2002, Snoei was appointed as the head coach of Vitesse in the Eredivisie. After coaching the club for one season, Snoei then moved to Sparta Rotterdam as head coach from 2003 to 2005 before moving to Go Ahead Eagles as the head coach in 2005 to 2008. While at Sparta and Go Ahead Eagles, Snoei led both clubs to the promotion play-offs for the Eredivisie.