Career
Hoek played for more than a decade at Football Club Volendam and later went to work as a goalkeeping coach at football clubs including AFC Ajax, Football Club Barcelona, Football Club Bayern Munich and Manchester United, and the Netherlands and Poland national teams. He has worked with goalkeepers including Edwin van der Sar, Stanley Menzo, Víctor Valdés, Vítor Baía, Pepe Reina, Robert Enke, Łukasz Fabiański, Thomas Kraft, Michel Vorm and David de Gea. Hoek is widely regarded as one of world football"s best goalkeeping mentors.
Two years later, Volendam were relegated.
In 1983, Hoek and his teammates were promoted back to the Eredivisie, where they spent another two seasons. Hoek scored against Roda JC Kerkrade in September 1983.
In 1985, Hoek ended his playing career as a goalkeeper, moving into coaching. Hoek joined Ajax in 1986 as a coach, working under manager Johan Cruyff, and in 1991 became the goalkeeping coach of manager Louis van Gaal at the club
A young Edwin van der Sar was under the care of Hoek at Ajax.
In between this, he also coached for two years the goalkeepers of his former club Volendam. In 1997, he followed van Gaal to Barcelona, where he oversaw the promotion of Víctor Valdéson He moved with van Gaal to the Netherlands national football team in 2000, and back to Barcelona again in 2002.
Beenhakker had been the former head coach at Volendam, where Hoek spent his playing career.
Following this, Hoek joined van Gaal again at Bayern Munich in 2010, where he received both the role of goalkeeping coach and an assistant coach. Hoek again teamed up with van Gaal at Manchester United in the summer of 2014, replacing Chris Woods as the club"s chief goalkeeping coach.
Ryan Giggs became assistant manager, Albert Stuivenberg was added as assistant coach, and Marcel Bout was appointed as an assistant coach and chief opposition scout, the latter previously worked with Hoek at Bayern Munich. Hoek also trains other professional goalkeeping coaches, and advises and lectures for Fédération internationale de football association, Union of European Football Associations and the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), among others, on goalkeeping.
He previously advised Manchester United (before becoming chief goalkeeping coach), Los Angeles Galaxy and the Danish Football Association (DBU).
His coaching style is known within the game as the "Hoek Method".
