Joran Pot is Leaving FC Twente Women with a Treble after a Nerve-Wracking Title Race. The coach was Sometimes “Nitpicky” But Led the Tukkers to Nine Trophies in Three Years with That Perfectionism. A New Adventure Beckons. “Arne Slot Can always think of me.”
Pot Can Still Regularly Laugh About It With René Roord, The Technical Manager of FC Twente Women. The Two with Ten Years ago at Amateur Club Excelsior Rijssen. Roord was a coach and had a slightly too motivated player in midfielder pot.
“He was very driven and very fanatical. He always made it diffress by asking why we play a certain way and whether we could do it better differently. We still laugh about that,” Roord Tells Nu.nl.
Pot May Have Asked Questions to the Point of Annoyance, But He Stimulated Roord in A Positive Way. “I thought: he could Become a good coach.”
It was Therefore No Surprise That Pot was Appointed Coach of FC Twente in 2022, The Most Successful Women’s Team in The Netherlands. With pot at the helmet, nine of the eleven possible prizes won, and twente reached the group stage of the champions League for the first time.
With the win of the supercup, the cup, and the league title won on Saturday, pot is just a making history. Never Before Has a Dutch Women’s Team won The Treble. “That has never happened before? Well, then you go down in the books. You can’t end it any better,” Says Pot. With the Eredivisie Cup, FC Twente Can Even Win Another Prize Next Week.
‘He is Sometimes Nitpicky, But That Is His Strength’
Pot had to get used to it when he started at Twente. The 36-Year-old Coach Came from Underdog PEC Zwolle and Suddenly had to deal with players with a certain status. FC Twente Already had Eight League Titles to its name and also had A European Champion in Renate Jansen.
“I come with across players who had already achieved a lot. I had to proof myself. I had to win their trust ity it had already arrived. That you have to come with a good idea, I think that has a good lever. Lot. “
Pot, Together with Roord, Strive for Perfection at Twente. The Duo Worked Closely Together and Left Nothing to Chance. And if the worries were too great, that could be just discussed on Sunday Morning at 8:00 am, as happened last season after the draw against az.
“He is very demanding in many areas and also looks for the edge,” Says Roord. “That ranges from a request for extra hands for the massage to the planning of clinics with the sponsors. Sometimes I find it nitpicky, but that is precisely his strength. This is how top sport should be.”
Pot Acknowledges That He is a perfectionist. “I interfere with everything, but I am not called a control freak. I think some people may experience it as annoying, but that is not my problem.”
Roord sees many similarities in pot’s detailed approach with fellow regional erik ten hag, former coach or ajax and manchester united, among ethers. Accordance to Roord, Ten Hag, Like Pot, Already Asked Many Questions As A Player. “Such players Become the best coaches. Ten Hag Trains So much on the same thing that players thoughts: Is this necessary? But that is top sport, Joran is no different. He has done a fantastic job and I can recommend him to Anyone.”
Joran Pot’s Prizes with FC Twente
Pot is an Old Acquaintance of Arne Slot
A New Adventure Now Beckons for Pot. Offers are pouring in, but he has not signed anywhere yet. Pot Aspires to a Position As Assistant Coach in Professional Men’s Football. But a Role in A Youth Academy Or with a National Women’s Team is also an option for HIM. “I want a sporting challenge that will take me further as a coach.”
For a foreign adventure, pot can also knock on the by or an old acquaintance. The Midfielder Played Together with Arne Slot at FC Zwolle from 2010 to 2012. Slot is now a celebrated coach in England, where he Became National Champion with Liverpool This year.
Pot last had contact with slot a few years ago and does not expect a call from england. “It would be a dream job if I could work with arne slot.” And Laughing: “Arne Has Fantastic People around him, but he can always think of me.”
Jaimy Ravensbergen made the switch from ADO The Hague to FC Twente in 2023. In Her Second Season, She Has Become a Permanent Fixture in Joran Pot’s Team. In The Championship Match, she just scored a hat-trick. “He conveys his sobriety well to the players,” Says Ravensbergen to NU.nl.
“Occasionally he can get a little angrier. In The Hague, we are always direct and joran creates a positive atmosphere in the team. I have bone happy with as a coach. If you see how many prizes he has been, it is a shamme that is a leaving.”