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Dick Advocaat will be appointed manager of Curaçao on Monday ahead of the start of World Cup qualifying in June, his eighth national team.
According to the Curacao Football Federation, Advocaat has agreed to a one-year contract with a one-year option. He did not say whether this option belonged to Advocaat or the Federation.
Advocaat, 76, coached the Dutch national team in three different spells, taking the Oranje to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup and the semi-finals of the 2004 European Championship. He also led the Dutch team that failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
He has also coached in the United Arab Emirates (2005), South Korea (2005-2006), Belgium (2009-2010), Russia (2010-12), Serbia (2014) and Iraq (2021). Ta. His South Korean team was eliminated in the group stage of the 2006 World Cup, and his Russian team failed to advance beyond the group stage of the 2012 Euros.
At club level, he played for Haarlem (1987-89), SVV Schiedam (1989-91), Dordrecht (1991-92), PSV Eindhoven (1994-98, 2012-13) and Glasgow Rangers (1998-2001). I’ve been teaching. Borussia Monchengladbach (2004-05), Zenit St. Petersburg (2006-09), AZ Alkmaar (2009-10, 2013-14), Sunderland (2015), Fenerbahce (2016-17), Sparta Rotterdam (2017-18), Utrecht (2018-19), Feyenoord (2019-21), The Hague (2022-23).
He reached the top of the UEFA Cup with Zenit in 2008 and won top-tier league titles with PSV (1997), Rangers (1999 and 2000) and Zenit (2007).
Curaçao, coached by Guus Hiddink, advanced through the first round group in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, but lost to Panama 2-1 on aggregate in the second round.
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