The 45-year-old former Madrid player currently manages the Eindhoven club’s subsidiary and has signed a contract as first-team coach until mid-2025. “My goal has always been to be PSV’s coach,” the former Madrid player said in a statement. of the Dutch club.
“I’ve been working for this moment for years,” said Van Nistelrooy, who began training youth players for the Eindhoven team in 2016, when he took charge of PSV’s B1 team, and has managed PSV Eindhoven B since last summer, which is eleventh in the Dutch second division.
“In recent years I have been closely supervised by the club and in particular by Toon Gerbrands -current general manager of PSV-. He was convinced that he could completely direct my own coaching career,” he explained.
“The discussions with the entire Management Board and the Supervisory Board have strengthened my image of unity and the ambition to achieve something special with PSV in the long term. I am ready to lead the club as first team coach,” Van Nistelrooy added.
The technical director of the Eindhoven club, John de Jong, explained that the board of directors is “very happy that Ruud has said yes” because “he enjoys the full confidence of the current PSV management.”
“Ruud has learned a lot inside and outside of PSV in recent years, impressed as a leader of several teams and is ready to lead the first team,” De Jong said.
During his playing career, Van Nistelrooy played for PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United and Real Madrid, among other teams, a team with which he played four seasons, won two league titles and became the top scorer in the 2006/07 season.
He retired from Málaga CF in 2012 and shortly after began his career as a coach. He was assistant to the Netherlands coach from 2014 to 2016, at the time Guus Hiddink, and to Frank de Boer during Euro 2020.
Van Nistelrooy will pick up at PSV the relief of German Roger Schmidt, who, despite having a good season, announced last February that he would not continue as head of the club.
The entrance Van Nistelrooy will coach PSV next season was first published in diary TODAY.
