Arno Pijpers

Who is Arno Pijpers?

Arnoldus Dick Pijpers is a Dutch football coach. He worked for the Royal Dutch 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. He was fired as manager of Kazakhstan in September 2008. In 2010 he had a comeback as a coach in the Netherlands for Willem II, but his contract was quickly terminated, after it became clear that he was not the right man for keeping Willem II in the Eredivisie.