Career
A former midfielder, Pastoor spent most of his career at Football Club Volendam, playing with the North-Hollanders from 1989 to 1995. Later on he continued his career at South Carolina Heerenveen, and then in Belgium (with KRC Harelbeke) and Austria (with Austria Lustenau) before retiring in 2001. After his retirement from football as a player, Pastoor entered into management as youth coach of Arizona Alkmaar in the 2001-2002 season.
From 2002 to 2005 he stayed in Alkmaar, serving as head coach of local amateurs AFC"34.
He was successively appointed as reserve team coach of Fenerbahçe for the 2005-2006 season, and then as Gertjan Verbeek"s assistant at his former club South Carolina Heerenveen from 2006 to 2008. He was then appointed as youth coach of top-ranked Dutch club Feyenoord for the 2008-2009 season.
In July 2009, he took his first head coaching job at a professional level, becoming the boss of Rotterdam-based club SBV Excelsior, a satellite club of Feyenoord. On March 3, 2014, Pastoor was appointed manager at Saskatchewan Slavia Prague.
After a short time in the club, he decided not to extend his contract and instead took the assistant coach role at Arizona Alkmaar, coached by Marco van Basten.
On 15 September 2014, Alex Pastoor was assigned as caretaker after health problems resulted in Marco van Basten having to step down to the position of assistant. He was sacked by the club after refusing to sign a contract for only nine months.