Dennis te Kloese will be the new general manager of Feyenoord. The Telegraph reports on Tuesday that the general manager of LA Galaxy has an oral agreement with the Rotterdammers. He is currently having his agent work out the contract and when all the paperwork has been completed, he will move to the Netherlands around the Christmas period and can start on January 1. Te Kloese succeeds Mark Koevermans, who recently announced his departure.
Feyenoord was looking for a new general manager because Koevermans is stepping down on 1 December. Te Kloese would have been a top candidate from the first moment and according to the newspaper has ‘a large network in countries where Ajax and PSV have been scouting players for years’. For example, he served as director of the Mexican Football Federation between 2014 and 2018. Te Kloese also worked as a scout for Ajax in the past, until he started working as head scout for Chivas Guadalajara in 2003.
According to Hans Westerhof, who knows Te Kloese well because they worked together for years in Mexico, the LA Galaxy director received offers from ‘numerous clubs’ in recent years. “Chivas in Mexico also wanted to get him back, but he stayed where he was. He is in good hands in Los Angeles, in Mexico he can lead a wonderful life and I would know if I had the choice between Chivas and Feyenoord,” says Westerhof, who does not want to elaborate further on the upcoming work of Te Kloese in De Kuip. .
After he subsequently became sporting director at Chivas USA, Te Kloese also served as head of training at Tigres UANL in Mexico, director of youth football of the Mexican Football Federation, sporting director of Chivas Guadalajara, general manager of the Mexican Football Federation and since 2018 director at LA Galaxy . Te Kloese had previously had offers to return to Europe, but never accepted. “He speaks his languages and did a good job. To this day I am in contact with him,” said 73-year-old Westerhof, who opposite The Telegraph admits that Te Kloese has reached out to him in the past 24 hours to catch up.