Stanley Brard

Who is Stanley Brard?

Stanley Brard is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a left back and who is currently head scout at Feyenoord Rotterdam. His cousin Patty is a singer, TV icon and playmate, while his son Joshua is a professional footballer as well.

Brard started his career in his town of birth, The Hague where he played for RKSV Lenig en Snel. He was spotted by scouts of Eredivisie side Feyenoord Rotterdam and joined the youth squads of this team. A few years later, in 1977 he made his debut in the first team of the club in a match against FC Twente. In the following years Brard became a decent fullback and was often in the starting line-up. The best achievements in his career came in the 1983-84 season when Johan Cruyff joined Feyenoord. In that season, at Cruyff's instigation, Brard was moved from the left back position to a position in front of Cruyff, to keep the opposition's right back from making incursions into the Feyenoord half. That year, Feyenoord won both the championship as well as the KNVB Cup.

Two years later Brard found himself on the bench more and more. It was time to leave the club. His next mission was at RKC Waalwijk, a club that recently had promoted to the Eerste Divisie and were ambitious to become an Eredivisie side. Brard became a key factor in this team and in the 1987-88 season RKC were the Eerste Divisie champions and promoted to the Eredivisie. In the Eredivisie Brard was a key player of the team for three more years before he was no longer chosen in the starting line-ups, in his last two seasons of his career he only played seventeen matches.