A lot-travelled former Netherlands coach Dick Advocaat has come out of retirement on the age of 75 in an try and rescue his boyhood membership from relegation from the second tier.
ADO Den Haag, who’re fourth-last within the Dutch second division, stated Advocaat will take over from former nationwide crew and Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt.
Advocaat joined ADO as a 10-year-old and spent the primary seven years of his skilled taking part in profession with them. He returned for a second stint 1979-80 however so far had by no means coached them.
“I’m not going to disclaim that it is rather particular to return to ADO Den Haag,” he stated on Monday.
“Possibly it’s a shock to some that I’m returning as head coach on Dutch pitches in any case. I actually could not let this chance, on the membership the place I’ve so many recollections, cross me by.
“Everyone knows the membership’s present sporting state of affairs and the aim all of us have may be very clear. Proper now, ADO Den Haag want higher outcomes. With full vitality, I’ll due to this fact go at it till the tip of the season and discover the best way up once more as quickly as potential.”
Advocaat’s teaching profession of greater than 4 many years had beforehand seen him accountable for nationwide groups of the Netherlands (twice), Russia, South Korea, Belgium, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.
Membership groups he was accountable for included Rangers, Borussia Monchengladbach, Zenit St Petersburg, Fenerbahce and Sunderland, plus a number of Dutch sides similar to PSV Eindhoven.
