# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frans-hoek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:51.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frans-hoek"
name: "Frans Hoek"
slug: "frans-hoek"
description: "Franciscus Petrus Theodorus \"Frans\" Hoek is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he was a goalkeeper for Volendam for more than a decade, before going into coaching as an assistant to Louis van Gaal at club sides Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as the Netherlands national team. He also worked for the Poland national team under fellow Dutchman Leo Beenhakker. 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 foremost goalkeeping mentors."
tagline: "Dutch association football player (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frans_Hoek_1977.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1956-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.01
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.352238666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرانس هويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فرانس هويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hoek"
    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hoek"
    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A6%DA%A9"
    title: "فرانس هوئک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hoek"
    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hoek"
    title: "Frans Hoek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump