Stanley Menzo

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Stanley Menzo
Personal information
Full name	Stanley Purl Menzo
Date of birth	October 15, 1963
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983-1984 1983-1984 1984-1994 1994-1996 1996-1997 1997 1998-1999 1999-2000 2001-2002	Ajax Haarlem Ajax PSV Lierse S.K. Bordeaux Lierse S.K. Ajax AGOVV	6 (0) 9 (0) 243 (0) 15 (0) 31 (0) 10 (0) 42 (0) 0 (0) ? (?)
Teams managed
2005-2006 2006-	AGOVV Apeldoorn FC Volendam
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2007-02-11. * Appearances (Goals)

Stanley Purl Menzo (born October 15, 1963 in Paramaribo) is a Dutch football (soccer) manager and retired football player.

He made his debut for Ajax in 1983, and became the club's first choice for goalkeeper in the 1985/86 season. Manager Johan Cruyff believed that Menzo was one of the first goalies who could also make his mark as a field player. Menzo lost his place in the starting line up to Edwin van der Sar in the 1992/93 season, after a 4-2 loss in the UEFA Cup match against AJ Auxerre. In this match Menzo scored an own goal and was the cause of another goal against. In 1994, he moved to PSV Eindhoven. In 1996 he moved to the Belgian club Lierse S.K.. With Lierse S.K. Menzo won the Belgian Cup and the national title.

In the summer of 2001, Menzo joined amateur club AGOVV Apeldoorn. When their coach Peter Bosz left at the end of the season, Menzo became player-manager. He remained in this position for only one season: AGOVV was promoted to the Eerste Divisie and became a professional club, but Menzo didn't have the qualifications to become coach in that league. He moved to Amsterdam-based amateur club AFC. When former teammate Marco van Basten became head coach of the Netherlands national football team, Menzo became the team's goalkeeper's coach.

In February 2005, Menzo received the diplomas necessary to coach professional clubs. That summer, he returned as head manager of AGOVV Apeldoorn. A year later, Menzo became manager for FC Volendam and resigned as goalkeeper's coach of the Netherlands national football team.

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Preceded by Philippe Vande Walle

Belgian Goalkeeper of the Year 1997

Succeeded by Ronny Gaspercic

	Netherlands squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 van Breukelen | 2 van Aerle | 3 Rijkaard | 4 R. Koeman | 5 van Tiggelen | 6 Wouters | 7 E. Koeman | 8 Vanenburg | 9 van Basten | 10 Gullit | 11 Witschge | 12 Kieft | 13 Rutjes | 14 van 't Schip | 15 Roy | 16 Hiele | 17 Gillhaus | 18 Fräser | 19 van Loen | 20 Winter | 21 Blind | 22 Menzo | Coach: Beenhakker