We would like to wish our academy manager Andries Jonker every success following his appointment as head coach at Bundesliga side VFL Wolfsburg.
Andries has helped to guide the transformation of our academy over the past three seasons. Significant progress has been made in developing our infrastructure and our Hale End academy has undergone a complete rebuild, creating a modern facility designed to give our young players the best possible place to develop.
Andries joined us in July 2014 after serving as assistant manager at Wolfsburg. He previously spent seven years developing and implementing youth coaching reforms for the KNVB (Dutch FA) and worked as assistant coach to Louis van Gaal at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, where he later had a spell as interim head coach.