Adrie Koster

What strikes me about Adrie Koster is the distance he traveled, from Zierikzee in Zeeland to the dugout at Ajax. A former winger turned serious coach, he managed Ajax, Club Brugge and the Netherlands U21 side, building a reputation not on flash but on patiently earned trust. He now works as a technical advisor at Willem II, still passing his hard-won knowledge to younger players and staff. I tend to value the steady, behind-the-scenes figures whose influence compounds over decades, and Koster reads to me as exactly that sort of quiet backbone the Dutch game relies on.

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Name (English)

Adrie Koster

Name (Japanese)

アドリー・コスター

Reading

あどりー・こすたー

Born

November 18, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrie%20Koster
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376494

Tags

• Zeeland
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.