René Meulensteen

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René Meulensteen (born March 25, 1964) is a Dutch football coach, who currently coaches Danish club Brøndby IF. He holds both the UEFA "A" and the Royal Dutch FA "TCI" coaching licenses. Meulensteen played football himself in the Dutch lower leagues as a midfielder but he retired from playing at the age of 29.

While still playing, he became a youth coach at NEC Nijmegen. A keen admirer of the training methods of Wiel Coerver, he went to Qatar at age 29 to work with Coerver, and the national youth players of Qatar. He went on to coach both the Qatar national team under 16's and under 17's youth sides. In 1999, he became manager of Qatari side Al-Etehad (now known as Al-Gharrafa). While Manchester United were lifting the 1999 UEFA Champions League trophy, Meulensteen was lifting the Middle East equivalent Arab Cup trophy. In 2000 he moved to league rivals Al-Sadd, where he managed the team to winning the domestic Emir Cup competition.

As Meulensteen objected to the team management's inclusion of particular foreign players in Al-Saad, he left the club. Having already showed interest in Meulensteen before he moved to Al-Saad, Sir Alex Ferguson and academy director Les Kershaw persuaded him to join Manchester United as "Skills Development Coach" in 2001, coaching all of the youngsters from age 9 to 21. In December 2005, Sir Alex Ferguson promoted him to manage Manchester United's reserve team, after the departure of Ricky Sbragia who left to become first team coach with Sam Allardyce and Sammy Lee at Bolton Wanderers. Meulensteen retained his role as "Skills Development Coach".

In June 2006, he signed a three year contract with Danish club Brøndby IF to become first team coach of the club.[1] Also in 2006, Meulensteen completed his UEFA Pro License.

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Brøndby IF - Current Squad

1 Ankergren | 2 Andersen | 3 Rytter | 4 Nielsen | 5 Howard | 6 Lantz | 7 Lorentzen | 8 Daugaard | 9 Retov | 10 Ericsson | 11 Jørgensen | 12 Rector | 13 Schmidt | 14 Elanga | 15 Bagger | 16 Cramer | 17 "Duncan" Rasmussen | 18 Kildentoft | 19 Peguero | 20 Sennels | 21 T. Rasmussen | 22 M. Rasmussen | 23 Spelmann | 24 Eckersley | 25 Sigurðsson | 26 Jensen | 30 Tørnes | Manager: Meulensteen
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