Career
Playing career
Born in Hengelo, Olde Riekerink played professionally for Sparta Rotterdam, Football Club Dordrecht and Telstar between 1985 and 1993. Coaching career
Olde Riekerink coached at Ajax from 1995 to 2002. He later managed Belgian club Gent and Dutch club Football Club Emmen, and has also been Assistant Manager at Portuguese club Porto and Ukrainian club Metalurh Donetsk.
He was appointed Head of Youth Development of Jong Ajax in April 2007., on June 15 it was announced that Olde Riekerink would give up his position at the club after irreconcilable differences with new board-member Johan Cruyff.
He became manager of Turkish club Galatasaray in March 2016.
