Dick Advocaat

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Dick Advocaat
Personal information
Full name	Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat
Date of birth	27 September 1947 (1947-09-27) (age 61)
Place of birth	The Hague, Netherlands
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Zenit (manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1966–1973 1973–1977 1977–1979 1979 1979–1980 1980 1980–1982 1982–1983 1983–1984	Den Haag Roda JC VVV-Venlo Chicago Sting Den Haag Chicago Sting Sparta Rotterdam K. Berchem Sport Utrecht Total	147 0(7) 113 0(2) 074 0(6) 032 0(3) 011 0(1) 031 0(1) 061 0(5) 010 0(0) 039 0(0) 431 (25)
Teams managed
1981–1984 1984–1987 1987–1989 1989–1991 1991 1992–1993 1993–1995 1995–1998 1998–2002 2002–2004 2004–2005 2005 2005–2006 2006–current 2010–	DSVP Netherlands (assistant) HFC Haarlem SVV SVV/Dordrecht'90 Netherlands (assistant) Netherlands PSV Rangers Netherlands Borussia Mönchengladbach United Arab Emirates South Korea Zenit Belgium
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat (born 27 September 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch coach, currently managing the Belgian national football team.

During his career he has been coach of his native Dutch national football team, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. His nickname is "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels' sobriquet "The General".

[edit] Playing career

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A midfielder during his playing days, the clubs he played for include: ADO Den Haag, VVV-Venlo, Roda JC, Sparta Rotterdam, and FC Utrecht in the Netherlands and Chicago Sting in the United States.

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] Netherlands

He moved onto coaching at the age of 32, starting at HFC Haarlem and SVV before becoming assistant to footballing legend Rinus Michels at the Dutch national team.

He led the Dutch team to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup as Head Coach in his first spell in charge (1992-94). The Dutch, while managing to stave off the infighting which have plagued talented Dutch teams of the past under his tutelage, were defeated by Brazil in the quarter-finals. This signalled the end of Advocaat's debut international coaching career.

[edit] PSV

He then returned to coaching at club level at first with PSV where he won his first trophy as coach winning the KNVB Cup in 1996 and the Dutch League Championship a year later.

[edit] Rangers

In 1998 Advocaat accepted the invitation from Rangers chairman David Murray to become the Scottish Premier League team's new manager.

He successfully reclaimed the Scottish Premier League crown, with his first season in charge culminating with a spectacular treble achievement (two cup victories, as well as the league). Under his tutelage, Rangers played regular bursts of brilliant one-touch football - with recruitments from the Netherlands such as Arthur Numan and Ronald de Boer to the fore. A season later he again won the Scottish League championship and guided Rangers into the Champions League having beaten the UEFA Cup winners Parma in the 3rd round qualifier. However, after claiming it would take Celtic ten years to catch up to Rangers, the arrival of Martin O'Neill at Celtic put pressure on Advocaat as Celtic won a domestic treble in season 2000-01. Marcus Gayle, Paul Ritchie & Tore Andre Flo transferred to Ibrox - the latter for a record £12 million - and players such as Jörg Albertz moved to different clubs. Celtic looked like retaining the league championship half way through the next season and as a result Advocaat was moved upstairs from the manager's position. Alex McLeish was appointed as his successor with Advocaat moving to the position of General Manager. After ensuring that Rangers built a first-rate, multi-million pound training facility Murray Park, Dick Advocaat left Rangers for Netherlands national team as McLeish went on to have a successful run as Rangers' manager.

[edit] Return to Netherlands

He rejoined the national team set-up following Louis van Gaal's failure to take the national team to the 2002 World Cup in January 2002 and presided over the Netherlands qualification for Euro 2004 via the play-offs. Oranje had finished second in their group behind the Czech Republic and therefore went into a play-off in order to qualify for Euro 2004. They managed to achieve this after a 6-1 aggregate win over Scotland but not before surviving a harrowing encounter: losing 1-0 in the first leg in Scotland. Advocaat was criticised by the Dutch media, so much so that several of the team's players refused to speak to the media even after the comfortable and inspired 6-0 victory in the return leg at the Amsterdam ArenA.

Despite taking Netherlands to the semi-final stage of UEFA Euro 2004, the Dutch media were critical of Advocaat. Netherlands were beaten 2-1 by Portugal in the semi-finals of Euro 2004 after a dismal performance. The team also made several criticisms of his tactics, especially those in the team's shock loss to the Czech Republic in the second game of the first round of the tournament. In that game, after the Netherlands lost their two goal lead against the Czechs, Advocaat made a tactical change that shocked even his own players as he brought on the aging Paul Bosvelt in the midfield position replacing crowd favorite Arjen Robben who had been contributing immensely throughout the match. The Czechs seized the opportunity to capitalize on it and scored the decisive goal. Shortly after the tournament, with mounting pressure and even death threats, Advocaat quit his job as head coach on 6 July 2004. He then went briefly back into club management with German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, however he resigned on 18 April 2005 after less than six months at the helm.

[edit] Korea Republic

In July 2005, he took a job as coach of United Arab Emirates, but quit in September to work with Korea Republic's national team. Expectations were high after the Koreans' achievements on home soil in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The 2006 edition saw Korea get its first win on away soil in the FIFA World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Togo. They also scored a late equalizer to draw 1-1 against veterans France, and the results of the two games put them in a position to qualify from Group G. However, Korea failed to make it into the round of 16 after a 2-0 loss against Switzerland, while France had defeated Togo 2-0 to advance; a disappointing end to what had been a promising start for the Koreans.

[edit] Zenit St.-Petersburg

Since July 2006, Advocaat has been working with Zenit Saint Petersburg in Saint Petersburg, Russia, assisted by his compatriot Cor Pot. In 2006, he led his team to 4th place in the Russian Premier league, earning a place in the 07–08 UEFA Cup. The next year, his team succeeded in winning the Russian Premier League^[1] for the first time in the team's history playing in the Russian Premier League, becoming the first foreign coach to win the Russian championship and enabling him to land a $4 million-a-year extension from the team, despite the fact he had already agreed on a deal to manage the Australian National Team.^[2][3] With Advocaat, Zenit reached the final of the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history after beating Bayern Munich (1:1 in Munich and 4:0 in St. Petersburg) in the semifinals.

On 14 May 2008, at the City of Manchester Stadium, Advocaat's Zenit defeated his former side Rangers 2-0 to claim the UEFA Cup 2007-08. Later that same year, Zenit won the 2008 UEFA Super Cup, winning 2–1 against the 2007-08 Champions League winners Manchester United.

[edit] Belgium

Advocaat has confirmed that he will be the next manager of the Belgium national football team, although no contract has been signed yet.^[4]

[edit] Managerial honours

SVV

• Eerste Divisie (1):1989-90

PSV

• Eredivisie (1): 1996-97
• KNVB Cup (1): 1995-96
• Johan Cruijff-schaal (2): 1996, 1997

Rangers

• Scottish Premier League (2): 1998-99, 1999-00
• Scottish Cup (2): 1998-99, 1999-00
• Scottish League Cup (1): 1998-99

Zenit Saint Petersburg

• Russian Premier League (1): 2007
• Russian Super Cup (1): 2008
• UEFA Cup (1): 2007-08
• UEFA Super Cup (1): 2008

On 28 May 2008, Advocaat was honoured when he was granted the honorary citizenship of the city of Saint Petersburg, in recognition of his achievements with FC Zenit, making him the city's first foreign honorary citizen since 1866.^[5]

[edit] See also

• Pim Verbeek
• Guus Hiddink
• Afshin Ghotbi
• Hong Myung-Bo

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dick Advocaat management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Netherlands squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup 1 De Goey • 2 F. de Boer • 3 Rijkaard • 4 Koeman • 5 Rob Witschge • 6 Wouters • 7 Overmars • 8 Jonk • 9 R. de Boer • 10 Bergkamp • 11 Roy • 12 Bosman • 13 Van der Sar • 14 Van Gobbel • 15 Blind • 16 Numan • 17 Taument • 18 Valckx • 19 Van Vossen • 20 Winter • 21 De Wolf • 22 Snelders • Coach: Advocaat

v • d • e Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 2004 semi-finalists 1 van der Sar • 2 Reiziger • 3 Stam • 4 Bouma • 5 van Bronckhorst • 6 Cocu • 7 van der Meyde • 8 Davids • 9 Kluivert • 10 van Nistelrooy • 11 van der Vaart • 12 Makaay • 13 Westerveld • 14 Sneijder • 15 F. de Boer • 16 Overmars • 17 van Hooijdonk • 18 Heitinga • 19 Robben • 20 Seedorf • 21 Bosvelt • 22 Zenden • 23 Waterreus • Coach: Advocaat

v • d • e South Korea squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Lee Woon‑Jae • 2 Kim Young‑Chul • 3 Kim Dong‑Jin • 4 Choi Jin‑Cheul • 5 Kim Nam‑Il • 6 Kim Jin-Kyu • 7 Park Ji‑Sung • 8 Kim Do‑Heon • 9 Ahn Jung‑Hwan • 10 Park Chu‑Young • 11 Seol Ki‑Hyeon • 12 Lee Young‑Pyo • 13 Lee Eul‑Yong • 14 Lee Chun‑Soo • 15 Baek Ji‑Hoon • 16 Chung Kyung‑Ho • 17 Lee Ho • 18 Kim Sang‑Sik • 19 Cho Jae‑Jin • 20 Kim Yong‑Dae • 21 Kim Young‑Kwang • 22 Song Chong‑Gug • 23 Cho Won‑Hee • Coach: Advocaat