“That’s great, because there are few amateur trainers who get through like this,” says Philip den Haan, retired trainer since 2019. “Sponsor groups of professional clubs usually want a big name. But Jeroen has been persistent and sometimes things have to go well.” Dennis van der Steen acknowledges this. “Every trainer wants to make progress, I have that ambition too. You can only applaud what Jeroen is doing now.”
Former IJsselmeer bird Jeroen Rijsdijk returns to the Westmaat as trainer of Sparta: ‘He was always concerned with tactics’
