- Helmond Sport
Football club infobox
clubname = Helmond Sport
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founded =July 27 ,1967
ground =Stadion De Braak Helmond
capacity = 4,100
chairman =Theo van Kroonenburg
manager = Jurjen Streppel
league =Eerste Divisie
season = 2007-08
position = Eerste Divisie, 7th
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leftarm2=ffffff|body2=ffffff|rightarm2=ffffff|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffffHelmond Sport is a Dutch football club, playing in the Dutch
Eerste Divisie and located inHelmond ,Noord-Brabant . The club was founded onJuly 27 ,1967 , as a breakaway from the local professional clubHelmondia '55 , which had gone bankrupt.Helmond Sport in the Dutch League
Helmond Sport started in the
Tweede Divisie . After only a year, the club was promoted to the First Division, where they won the title in1982 and were promoted to theEredivisie . There, they would play for two seasons, before being relegated back to theEerste Divisie . The first season back in theEerste Divisie saw Helmond Sport reach the cup final, which was lost toFC Utrecht in injury time. Helmond Sport was close to promotion to theEredivisie in the play-offs of the2004 /05Eerste Divisie season. They came up 1-0 against Sparta due to a 59th minuteNyron Wau goal, but in the last 20 minutesRiga Mustapha (73') andRachid Bouaouzan (90+1') scored 1-1 and 1-2 and Sparta was promoted instead.Current squad
Len Koeman
Out on loan
Former managers
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Ruud Brood
*Jan Brouwer
*Louis Coolen
* Jan van Dijk
*Frans Körver
*Adrie Koster
*Jan Poortvliet
*Jan Pruijn
*Gerald Vanenburg
*Mario Verlijsdonk Former players
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Gerrie Dijkstra
*Rein van Duijnhoven
*Juul Ellerman
*Dennis Gerritsen
*Roy Hendriksen
*Marc van Hintum
* Yevgeny Levchenko
*Harry Lubse
*Toon Nelemans
*Wim Rijsbergen
*Jerry Taihuttu
*Otto Versfeld
*Hans Vincent
*Harald Wapenaar
*John de Wolf
*Orlando Smeekes External links
* [http://www.helmondsport.nl/ Official website]
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