Richie Vandenberg ne adam wata
Richard "Richie" Vandenberg (an haife shi a ranar 14 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1977) tsohon dan wasan kwallon kafa ne na Australiya wanda ya buga wa kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Hawthorn (Hawks) a gasar kwallon kafa ta Australiya (AFL). Ya yi aiki a matsayin kyaftin din Hawks daga 2005 zuwa 2007, shekaru uku na karshe na aikinsa.

Shekaru na farko 
Vandenberg dan asalin Holland ne. Ya girma a kusa da Wentworth, New South Wales, wani karamin gari kusa da Mildura kawai a gefen arewacin Kogin Murray a yammacin New South Wales.  Ya koma Melbourne don yin karatu a Jami'ar Melbourne a shekarar 1995, yana wasa tare da Jami'ar Blues inda ya ja hankalin masu daukar ma'aikata na Hawthorn.

Ayyukan AFL 
An zaɓi Vandenberg tare da karɓar 78 a cikin Draft na AFL na 1997. Ya kasance dan wasa mai ƙarfi tare da suna don wasa mai tsanani, yana gaban Kotun AFL a lokuta da yawa (kwanan nan shine dakatarwar makonni huɗu a shekara ta 2006). A shekara ta 2004 ya shiga cikin lamarin 'Line in the Sand', inda Hawthorn da Essendon suka shiga cikin rikici a lokacin kwata na uku na wasan da suka yi a zagaye na 11. A sakamakon haka, an dakatar da shi na wasanni shida.

An sanya shi kyaftin lokacin da Shane Crawford ya sauka a ƙarshen kakar 2004. Sabon kocin Alastair Clarkson ya zaɓi Vandenberg saboda shi mutumin da yake "mai gaskiya, mai gaskiya kuma yana da cikakkiyar mutunci" halayen abokan aikinsa suke sha'awar su.

Ayyukan kwallon kafa na bayan 
Vandenberg ya kammala karatun digiri na farko a Jami'ar Fasaha ta Swinburne . Yana da doguwar dangantaka a masana'antar ruwan inabi a matsayin mai shuka ta hanyar kasuwancin iyalinsa. Shi ne babban jami'in zartarwa na LCW Corp, kamfanin samar da inabi da ruwan inabi.
A shekara ta 2016 an nada shi a kwamitin Hawthorn don cika gurbin da ya dace bayan murabus din Andrew Newbold.
Ya yi murabus daga kwamitin bayan zaben kwamitin 2022 lokacin da aka kayar da dan takarar da ya fi so ta hanyar kuri'un jama'a.
Rayayyun mutane
Haifaffun 1977