Gerald Mervin Vanenburg

  • Netherlands
Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
100
Potential ability
125
Home reputation
100
Current reputation
100
World reputation
85
International appearances
42
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
61
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Technical
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness47 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength47 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)51 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)78 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)76 / 1004.0 / 5
Overall59 / 1003.0 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
3
Hair colour code
5
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 12
Youngsters 16
Motivating 16
Discipline 12
Determination 16

6 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, People management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 14
Defending 7
Technical 19
Tactical 8
Mental 11
Fitness 6
Attacking 14
Defending 7
Technical 19
Tactical 8
Mental 11
Fitness 6

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 15 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
AFC Ajax Player 1980-07-01 1986-07-01 Ended
PSV Player 1986-07-01 1993-01-01 Ended
Jubilo Iwata Player 1993-01-01 1996-07-01 Ended
FC Utrecht Player 1996-07-01 1997-07-01 Ended
Association Sportive Cannes Football Player 1997-07-01 1998-07-01 Ended
TSV 1860 München Player 1998-07-01 — Current
PSV Manager 2000-07-01 2001-10-18 Ended
TSV 1860 München Assistant Manager 2001-10-18 2001-11-07 Ended
PSV Manager 2002-01-01 2004-04-18 Ended
TSV 1860 München Manager 2004-04-18 2004-05-23 Ended
PSV Manager 2004-07-01 2005-06-30 Ended
Helmond Sport Manager 2006-07-01 2007-02-17 Ended
FC Eindhoven Manager 2008-01-01 2008-03-25 Ended
Willem II Coach 2008-05-01 2008-05-30 Ended
AFC Ajax Coach 2020-08-11 2023-06-30 Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Indonesia Manager 2025-01-24 2025-10-16 Ended

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
Dutch Yes —
German No 5
English No 10

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
AFC Ajax 80
PSV 100

Liked people

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) Suriname 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-03-05
Nationality
Netherlands
Birth city
Utrecht
Joined current club
2023-06-30

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 16
Ambition 14
Controversy —
Loyalty 13
Pressure 14
Professionalism 20
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 14