Arno Pijpers

Personal information
Arno Pijpers
Full name	Arnoldus Dick Pijpers
Date of birth	April 21, 1959 (1959-04-21) (age 49)
Place of birth	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Kazakhstan
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Feyenoord V.V. Papendrecht
Teams managed
1981-82 1982-87 ?-2000 2000-04 2005 2006 2005-present	Excelsior Rotterdam Olympia Gouda Netherlands U-16 Estonia and Flora Tallinn Utrecht (Director of Football) Astana Kazakhstan
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Arnodus Dick Pijpers (born 21 April 1959) is a Dutch football coach and is currently the head coach of the Kazakhstan national football team. He worked for the Royal Netherlands Football Association as a youth coach, before taking up a dual role in being the coach of Estonian club FC Flora Tallinn and the Estonia national football team. After the end of his contract, he joined Eredivisie club FC Utrecht as a technical director, before going to Kazakhstan in 2005. At the same time he coached FC Astana for the 2006 season, winning the Kazakhstan Super League title.

[edit] Estonia National Team

Pijpers led Estonia first in World Cup 2002 qualification with two wins over Andorra and two draws with Cyprus. He achieved almost the same result in Euro 2004 qualification beating twice Andorra again, and drawing with Croatia (away) and Bulgaria (home). At World Cup 2006 qualification Pijpers won the first two games againt Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. However the contract was terminated mutually with national team after a conflict with the FC Flora chairman Aivar Pohlak, who was a prominent person in Estonian football at that time. ^[1]

Pijpers led Kazakhstan in their first European campaign in Euro 2008 qualification ^[2]. They recorded wins over Serbia (home) and Armenia (away) and drew both matches against Belgium and Azerbaijan. Pijpers then extended his contract until the end of World Cup 2010 qualification ^[3]