Henk Wullems

Dutch footballer and manager (1936–2020)

Henk Wullems (21 January 1936 – 15 August 2020) was a Dutch association football manager.

In the early sixties he was a defender playing for Kooger Football Club (nl) and Racing Club Heemstede. Wullems was the manager of, among others, the eredivisie teams NAC Breda (1972–75), SBV Vitesse (1977–83), Go Ahead Eagles (1983–86),^[1] and AZ (1990–93). From 1996 to 1997 he was manager of the Indonesia national football team, winning a silver medal with them at the 1997 Southeast Asian Games.^[2] From 2000 to 2007 he managed a number of Indonesia Super League teams, becoming champion with three of them. Henk Wullems died on 15 August 2020 due to illness after cerebral infarction.^[3]

Honours

Player

KFC

• Eerste Divisie: 1959–60

Manager

NAC Breda

• KNVB Cup: 1972–73

SBV Vitesse

• Eerste Divisie: 1976–77

Bandung Raya

• Liga Indonesia Premier Division: 1995–96

Indonesia

• Southeast Asian Games silver medal: 1997

References

1. "Wullems trainer bij Excelsior". Limburgsch dagblad. 3 May 1986. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
2. http://indofootballs.blogspot.com/2008/04/henk–wullems.html ^{[user-generated source]}
3. "Voormalig voetbaltrainer Henk Wullems (84) overleden" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.