Virgil Breetveld

Born in Rotterdam, Breetveld played youth football for Steeds Hoger and Germinal Schiebroek,^[8] before signing for Feyenoord at the age of 17.^[9] Breetveld had not considered a professional football career, but was encouraged to pursue it by his coach Dick Beek, who himself had been a professional player.^[9] He made his debut for the first-team in April 1988.^[9] He later played for SVV, Dordrecht, De Graafschap, Excelsior and Fortuna Düsseldorf.^[9][10] He was top scorer of the Eerste Divisie in the 1994–95 season.^[10] He retired from professional football in November 2000.^[9]

After retiring as a player, Breetveld worked as a broker and let holiday apartments in Brazil.^[9] He was also manager of amateur side SC Reeland from 2003 to 2005,^[10] as well as EBOH and Wieldrecht.^[11]

He became an assistant manager at Dordrecht after signing a one-year contract in May 2011,^[11] combining his role there with his position as manager of Wieldrecht,^[12] and working 6 days a week in both roles.^[12] He signed a contract extension with Dordrecht in April 2012.^[13] He left his role with Dordrecht in 2013,^[9] and in September 2014 was working as manager of amateur team SteDoCo.^[9] In May 2017, Breetveld finished his employment at Stedoco.^[4] In the summer of 2017 he was appointed coach of the Sunday and Saturday first squads of Ido's Football Club.^[6]