Arnhem

Noltes sounded on Thursday after the summary proceedings against the decision of the appeal committee that the Arnhem club will no longer be admitted to professional football, still optimistic. “If I no longer had faith in it, I would not be here anymore,” he said then. A day later it turned out to be in vain hope. Vitesse has definitively lost the professional license.

His decision to leave the club was already established, a Vitesse spokesperson confirms. “Jaap made this decision a few months ago for his family, but kept the decision in the interest of Vitesse and the struggle for licensing.”

Noltes endorses that it is also a choice for his family. “A great challenge awaits me at FC Twente and Heracles.”

Noltes was appointed interim directors in February after the departure of managing director Edwin Reijntjes together with the German Timo Braasch. De Hengeloër, had been working at Vitesse for six years, including as a commercial director. Braasch already laid down his position in July.

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