Former Ibrox star Pieter Huistra sent Robin Propper on the road to Rangers by handing him his senior debut in football 12 years ago - and hopes the journey leads to Scottish Premiership title glory next year.Huistra himself spent five years at the Light Blues and lifted 10 major honours, including five league titles, but it was in a very different era for Rangers with the Dutchman signed from FC Twente to join Walter Smith’s all-conquering side of the 1990s.
Propper will now make the exact same journey across the North Sea from Enschede to Govan after Philippe Clement sealed a deal for the FC Twente captain.
But it was while manager of De Graafschap that Huistra first encountered the central defender after promoting the then teenager from the youth ranks to give him his debut in the first team.
Huistra, 57, is now manager of Borneo Samarinda and spoke to Record Sport from the team’s training camp in Indonesia to give the lowdown on Propper’s football journey. “Gronginen was my first job as a manager and then I went to De Graafschap.
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