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English football coach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Waites, sometimes also called Jim Waites (8 June 1878 - October 1938), was an English football coach active in the Netherlands in the 1920s.
![]() Waites in 1920. | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 8 June 1878[1] | ||
Place of birth | Stockport[1] | ||
Date of death | October 1938[2] | ||
Place of death | Otley | ||
Managerial career | |||
Years | Team | ||
1919–1921 | Be Quick | ||
1921 | Netherlands | ||
1921–1924 | LAC Frisia 1883 | ||
1924–1925 | Feyenoord |
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.[3] 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,[4] and later managed Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1924 and 1925 (national league championship 1924), before returning to England.[3]
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