Rein Baart


Rein Baart, is a Dutch former footballer.

Career

Netherlands

Baart has extensive experience playing in the Eerste Divisie in the Netherlands, having played for TOP Oss, VVV-Venlo, SV Babberich, Fortuna Sittard. He was part of the VVV-Venlo team which won promotion to the Eredivisie at the end of the 2006/2007 season, before moving to and NEC; he spent the next four years in Nijmegen, but only made one league start for the team.

Canada

Baart was signed by coach Dwight Lodeweges to play for FC Edmonton in 2010, and played in several exhibition games prior to the team's first season in the North American Soccer League. He made his competitive debut for the team in their first official game on April 9, 2011, a 2-1 victory over the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.
At the end of the 2011 season, Edmonton announced that Baart had declined a contract offer and would not return to the club in 2012.