- Tom Saintfiet
Football player infobox
playername= Tom Saintfiet
fullname = Tom Saintfiet
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1973|3|19
cityofbirth =Mol
countryofbirth =Belgium
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position = midfielder
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clubs =K.V.C. Westerlo K.F.C. Lommel S.K. K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel
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manageryears = 1997-2001
2000
2002-2003
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004
2005-2006
2006-2007
2008
2008
managerclubs = Lower Belgian DivisionsF.C. Satelitte Abidjan B71 Sandur Stormvogels Telstar Al-Gharafa Sports Club
Qatar U17BV Cloppenburg FC Emmen RoPS
Namibia
pcupdate = 6 September 2008
ntupdate =Tom Saintfiet (born
March 29 1973 in Mol,Belgium ) is the current football National Team Head coach of Namibia. [http://www.namibiasport.com.na]He played football between 1983 to 1997 before becoming a football manger at 24, becoming the youngest manager in Belgian football.
Saintfiet coached in several countries like Qatar (
Al-Gharafa Sports Club (former Al Etehad SC) and Qatar U17), Germany (BV Cloppenburg ), Faroe Islands (B71 Sandoy ) and Holland (Stormvogels Telstar ,FC Emmen 's U23-U19).Before going to Namibia, Saintfiet was manager of Finnish Premier League club
RoPS Rovaniemi.With Namibia he started very successfully by beating Comoros and Malawi and playing a draw against Lesotho in the Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup in South Africa in July 2008. Namibia were eliminated from the Quarter Final at the hands of subsequent winner and host South Africa. [http://www.nfa.org.na] Namibia won only 1 game out of 12 in the last months, before Saintfiet's arrival. [http://www.namibiasport.com.na] After this performance, the Namibian press nicknamed Saintfiet "The Saint" [http://www.informante.web.na] and one even newspaper called him "The Messiah". [http://www.namibiasport.com.na]
Saintfiet has UEFA A Pro licence which he achieved in 2000. In 2002, B71 were runners up in the Faroe Islands Premier League. In 2004 he helped Qatar U17 come third in the AFC Asian Championship U17 and qualify for the for the FIFA World Championship U17. Between 2006 and 2007 he worked as a technical advisor for the Kazakhstan Football Federation.
He has also worked as a TV football Analyst for Belgian Television and a translator for the DFB, and has also studied Sport psychology and Economic psychology.
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