Rein Baart is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 footballer.

Netherlands

Baart has extensive experience playing in the Eerste Divisie

Eerste Divisie

The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...

 in the Netherlands, having played for TOP Oss

TOP Oss

FC Oss is a professional football club from the Netherlands, which was founded on April 9, 1928. They currently play in the Eerste Divisie.-History:...

, VVV-Venlo, SV Babberich

SV Babberich

Sportvereniging Babberich is a Dutch football club based in Babberich which was founded in 1930, currently competing in the Hoofdklasse.-External links:...

, Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Trendwork Arena and features in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. The club was a merger of former clubs 'Fortuna 54' and 'Sittardia' to merge as the Fortuna Sittard Combinatie on July 1,...

. He was part of the VVV-Venlo team which won promotion to the Eredivisie

Eredivisie

The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....

 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

Dwight Lodeweges

Dwight Lodeweges is Dutch football coach and former professional player now coaching for JEF United Ichihara Chiba in J. League Division 2.- Early life :...

 to play for FC Edmonton

FC Edmonton

FC Edmonton is a Canadian professional soccer team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2010, the team plays in the North American Soccer League , the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid....

 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.