Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈdɪkˌɑtfoːˈkaːt]ⓘ; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch former football player and coach. He is the current manager of the Curaçao national football team.
Advocaat was successful as a football player and as a coach, including three stints with the Netherlands national team. He has coached a number of clubs in the Netherlands and abroad (including the Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg, with which he won the 2008 UEFA Cup Final), as well as the national teams of a number of countries, including South Korea, Belgium and Russia. His nickname is "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels.
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Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɪk ˌɑtfoːˈkaːt] ; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch former football player and coach. He is the current...
times in history with 87 matches, 25 more than second-placed coach DickAdvocaat. Advocaat has the most wins as coach, with 37 to Glendenning's 36. As of...
group winners Belgium. After failing to qualify for the 2014 World Cup, DickAdvocaat was appointed as the coach in 2014. Serbia was drawn in Group I in qualification...
Rangers and Zenit Saint Petersburg manager DickAdvocaat took over for the remainder of the season. Under Advocaat, AZ achieved solid results and secured...
charge of the team before retiring for good after the tournament ended. DickAdvocaat took over from Michels on the understanding that he would be replaced...
Stam resigned after the game, after which DickAdvocaat replaced him as headcoach of Feyenoord. With Advocaat as the new head coach, Feyenoord improved...
captain, as is usually the case in association football. Until 2011 under DickAdvocaat and Georges Leekens the former Belgium U-23 captain Thomas Vermaelen...
manager Brian Clough. Ignacio Trelles, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Roy Hodgson, DickAdvocaat and Giovanni Trapattoni are the only managers of 1,000 or more club...
drawn into Group A with Poland, the Czech Republic and Greece. Led by DickAdvocaat, Russia had been unbeaten for nearly 15 games and managed to record...
replacement of coach Vlastimil Petržela. In July 2006, DickAdvocaat took over as Zenit's manager. Advocaat worked together with his assistant manager, former...
extend his contract for a third year. Slot succeeded the experienced DickAdvocaat, who led the team to fifth place in the Eredivisie and qualification...
resigned and made way for new coach DickAdvocaat. However, in April 2010, after only six months at the helm, Advocaat resigned as manager of Belgium amid...
team, Van Bronckhorst began to search for a new club. He chose to join DickAdvocaat (his former manager at international U-16 and U-18 level) at Rangers...
Head coach: Paul Van Himst Head coach: Abdellah Blinda Head coach: DickAdvocaat Head coach: Jorge Solari Each national team had to submit a squad of...
Kranjčar Head coach: Zico Head coach: Raymond Domenech Head coach: DickAdvocaat Head coach: Köbi Kuhn Head coach: Otto Pfister Head coach: Marcos Paquetá...
team. He ended up resigning less than a week later. On 1 August 2021, DickAdvocaat was unveiled as the Iraq manager ahead of the third round of World Cup...
June 2013. "Advocaat bevestigt vertrek bij PSV". NU.nl. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013. "DickAdvocaat vertrekt met...
to play in the position when offered by Manager DickAdvocaat. However, this never happened, as Advocaat was sacked and replaced by Sam Allardyce, who decided...
Eindhoven finished third, despite Ernest Faber leaving the club to join DickAdvocaat at PSV as his assistant in March 2012. The club lost 3–0 to Helmond...
DickAdvocaat for £4 million. However, despite winning the domestic treble in his first season, his time there was relatively unhappy with Advocaat claiming...
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