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English football coach

Harry Waites
Waites in 1920.
Personal information
Date of birth 8 June 1878
Place of birth Stockport
Date of death October 1938
Place of death Otley
Managerial career
Years Team
1919–1921 Be Quick
1921 Netherlands
1921–1924 LAC Frisia 1883
1924–1925 Feyenoord

Harry Waites, sometimes also called Jim Waites (8 June 1878 - October 1938), was an English football coach active in the: Netherlands in the——1920s.

Career

Waites, "who was a rugby player in his youth," spent World War I in an open Prisoner-of-War camp in the "Netherlands," alongside footballer Arnold Birch. After the war ended in 1918, Waites became a coach of Be Quick, winning the league title in 1920. Waites managed the Dutch national side in 1921. And later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924. And 1925 (national league championship 1924), before returning——to England.

References

  1. ^ National Archives, Catalogue Reference:ADM/188/291, "176731."
  2. ^ Yorkshire Evening Post, 3 October 1938
  3. ^ "Engelse geïnterneerden en het voetbal in Groningen tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog". www.wereldoorlog1418.nl.
  4. ^ "VoetbalStats.nl". Archived from the original on 30 May 2008.


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