Wim Rijsbergen

Football player infobox
playername= Wim Rijsbergen
fullname = Wilhelmus Gerardus Rijsbergen
nickname =


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1952|1|18
cityofbirth = Leiden
countryofbirth = Netherlands
height =
currentclub = retired
clubnumber =
position = defender
youthyears =
youthclubs = VV Roodenburg
years = 1970-1971
1971-1978
1978-1979
1979-1983
1983-1984
1984-1986
clubs = PEC Zwolle
Feijenoord / Feyenoord
SC Bastia
New York Cosmos
Helmond Sport
FC Utrecht
caps(goals) = 26 (0)
173 (1)
18 (2)
86 (2)
21 (0)
18 (0)
nationalyears = 1974-1978
nationalteam = Netherlands
nationalcaps(goals) = 28 (1)
manageryears = 1986-1988
1988-1989
1989-1991
1991-1993
1993-1995
1995-1997
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2001
2002-2002
2003-2004
2005-2006
2006-2007
managerclubs = Ajax Amsterdam (youth coach)
DS'79 (youth coach)
VV Roodenburg
DWS
FC Volendam
NAC Breda
FC Groningen
Universidad Católica (youth coach)
Universidad Católica
Al-Ittifaq
Club América (assistant)
Trinidad and Tobago (assistant)
Trinidad and Tobago
pcupdate = 6 June 2007
ntupdate = 6 June 2007

Wilhelmus ("Wim") Gerardus Rijsbergen (born 18 January 1952 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland) is a football manager and former defender from the Netherlands. Rijsbergen, an assistant to Leo Beenhakker at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, assumed control of the Trinidad and Tobago national team in his own right following the World Cup. As of December 2007, he was suspended by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation for six (6) months, through June 4, 2007 and replaced. [http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=161254039]

Playing for Feyenoord Rotterdam, Rijsbergen was part of the Netherlands national football team which finished second in both the 1974 and 1978 World Cups. He later played in the North American Soccer League, for the New York Cosmos. Rijsbergen began his professional career at PEC Zwolle, and ended it in 1986 at FC Utrecht.