Hans Westerhof is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 football (soccer) coach and currently technical director at Pachuca.

As a player, Westerhof played for BV Veendam

BV Veendam

SC Veendam is a Dutch football club based in Veendam, Groningen province, playing in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club's official colours are black and yellow.- History :...

 and BVO Cambuur

Cambuur Leeuwarden

SC Cambuur , formed on June 19, 1964, is a Dutch football club from Leeuwarden, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie. The club's home ground is the 10,250 seater Cambuur Stadion and they play in yellow shirts and blue shorts. The club's emblem originates from the coat of arms of the House of...

 of the Dutch First Division

Eerste Divisie

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. He began his coaching career in 1986, and has managed Groningen (1988–92 and 1994–96), PSV Eindhoven (1992–1994), the Dutch U-21 national team

Netherlands national football team

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 (1996–97), Ajax Amsterdam

Ajax Amsterdam

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 (2000), Willem II Tilburg

Willem II Tilburg

Willem II , also known as Willem II Tilburg, is a football club based in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The team was founded on 12 August 1896 as Tilburgia...

 (2000–03)and Chivas de Guadalajara(2003–04), Necaxa

Necaxa

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 (2007–2008)

Westerhof originally joined Chivas de Guadalajara in 2003 to oversee the club's youth teams, but took over as head coach of the first team in October of that year. He stepped down as coach after the Clausura 2004 season. On 3 June 2005, Guadalajara's "sister" team, Chivas USA

C.D. Chivas USA

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, named Westerhof its head coach, after a disastrous start under Thomas Rongen

Thomas Rongen

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. He was replaced after the season by Bob Bradley

Bob Bradley

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 and then came back to the parent club as its head coach.

Besides coaching, he has been a teacher in Heerenveen (the Netherlands) at the Central Institute for Sports Education (CIOS) for many years. For Apertura 2007, Westerhof was appointed New Head Coach of Necaxa

Necaxa

Necaxa is a Mexican football club and is based in the city of Aguascalientes. it plays in the Estadio Victoria. Necaxa is ranked seventh overall and 1st in ranking in Mexican football within the IFFHS Central and North America's Clubs of the Century in the CONCACAF behind CD Saprissa San Juan de...

 of Mexico.

On 12 June 2008 Hans was appointed Vitesse new coach. He was then sacked after 6 months in December after a disappointing first half of the season. Having led them into 15th position of the 18-team league, he managed 15 points from 17 matches.