Career
Brard started his career in his town of birth, The Hague where he played for RKSV Lenig en Snel (LENS). He was spotted by scouts of Eredivisie side Feyenoord Rotterdam and joined the youth squads of this team A few years later, in 1977 he made his debut in the first team of the club in a match against Football Club Twente.
In the following years Brard became a decent fullback and was often in the starting line-up.
In that season, at Cruyff"s instigation, Brard was moved from the left back position to a position in front of Cruyff, to keep the opposition"s right back from making incursions into the Feyenoord half. Two years later Brard found himself on the bench more and more.
lieutenant was time to leave the club His next mission was at RKC Waalwijk, a club that recently had promoted to the Eerste Divisie and were ambitious to become an Eredivisie side.
Brard became a key factor in this team and in the 1987-1988 season RKC were the Eerste Divisie champions and promoted to the Eredivisie (to only relegate again in the 2006-2007 season).
In the Eredivisie Brard was a key player of the team for three more years before he was no longer chosen in the starting line-ups, in his last two seasons of his career he only played seventeen matches. After his career Brard became a manager and joined Vitesse Arnhem where he became a youth coach as well as the coach of the second team for several years. He then switched to ADO Den Haag to become their manager in the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons.
He also was a technical director at the team
In December 2001 Brard left ADO Den Haag to become a youth coach at Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan. He remained in this function until February 2005 when Feyenoord contacted him to become a head scout at the team
Brard was Gabala FK"s academy director between April 2013 and December 2015, when it was announced he would be joining Japanese side Nagoya Grampus in January 2016.
