Rob Baan

Robert Baan (born 1 April 1943 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football coach. He was coach of FC VVV, Roda JC, and FC Twente, assistant coach of PSV and assistant and interim coach of the Dutch national football team. He won Dutch First Division championships with FC Den Haag in 1986 and Cambur Leeuwarden in 1992. He was appointed to the role of technical director for the India national team by the AIFF. He was the technical director of All India Football Federation.

Baan was born in Rotterdam, South Holland. He played football in the 1960s for the youth team of Sparta and the amateur club RFC Rotterdam. In 1965 he became a youth coach at Fortuna Vlaardingen. Before joining the Indian team, he served the technical director role for the Netherlands, Feyenoord Rotterdam and ADO Den Haag.

While Graham Arnold was the caretaker coach for the Socceroos, Baan, alongside his technical director duties, was also briefly the caretaker coach for the Australia Under 23 team. He was briefly appointed as a caretaker manager for the Netherlands for a 3–0 win over Cyprus in February 1981, and for Australia in 2007 for a 1–0 victory at Craven Cottage against Nigeria.

He announced his retirement from his job as technical director of Australian football and his position has been replaced by Han Berger.

• Netherlands Football profile Archived 17 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)