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Guus Hiddink
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''' Guus Hiddink ''' (born
8 November 1946 in
Varsseveld, now part of
Oude IJsselstreek) is a
Netherlands Dutch football (soccer) football coach who is currently the head coach for Dutch team
PSV Eindhoven, as well as the manager of the
Australia national football team Australian national team. Throughout his entire coaching career, he is best recognised for leading
South Korea national football team South Korea to a 4th place finish in the {{Wc|2002}}, coaching the
Netherlands national football team Netherlands into the same position in the {{Wc|1998}} in
France, and leading Australia to the {{Wc|2006}}, their first appearance in the tournament for 32 years. Also since the English FA's recent decision to part with Sven-Göran Eriksson as England head coach, Guus has been widely tipped as a leading contender to take over as England head coach after the World cup.
Playing career
He was a professional football player in his youth with amateur club SC Varsseveld, before signing on for Dutch club
De Graafschap for most of his playing career, beginning from
1967. He joined
PSV Eindhoven in
1970, but after failing to win a permanent position in the team, he rejoined De Graafschap after just one year and remained there until
1976. He also had stints in the
North American Soccer League in the United States with
Washington Diplomats and
San Jose Earthquakes before returning home to sign for
NEC Nijmegen. In
1981, he rejoined De Graafschap and retired a year later. He generally played as a midfielder during his playing days, although he was not noted for the sophistication of his footballing skills then.
Managerial Career
Early Club Career
Having honed his coaching skills with De Graafschap as an assistant manager, he took over the managerial role at PSV in
1987 after also holding the assistant manager position there from
1983 to March 1987. It was at PSV where he led the team to its first ever
UEFA Champions League European Cup triumph in
1988 thereby ensuring the
Eindhoven club's ranking as one of the three giants of Dutch football, alongside rivals
Ajax Amsterdam Ajax and
Feyenoord Rotterdam Feyenoord. He also won three
Eredivisie titles with the club in between 1987 and
1990.
He also had coaching stints at
Turkey Turkish club
Fenerbahçe SK Fenerbahçe in
1990 but was dismissed after only one year before joining
Spain Spanish giants
Valencia CF Valencia. His outspoken nature was demonstrated when during a league game at Valencia's
Mestalla stadium, he ordered a racist banner to be removed from one of the stands. His open attacking brand of football appealed to the Valencia team as well as to the rest of the
La Liga Spanish Premier League.
Dutch National Team
The greatest challenge for Hiddink when he took over as the manager of the
Netherlands national football team Netherlands in
1995 where he took charge of a team of talented individuals continuallly racked by internal arguments and disputes, as was seen in the
1996 European Football Championship Euro 1996 tournament, when
Edgar Davids was sent home after an argument with Hiddink. He was able to avoid a similar player bust-up in the
Football World Cup 1998 1998 World Cup where his team played some of the more entertaining football in that tournament. His usual tactic of deploying wingers backed-up by central midfielders resulted in goals even by defensive midfielders such as
Philip Cocu and
Edgar Davids. A bitter defeat at the hands of
Brazil national football team Brazil on penalties in the semi-finals of the World Cup 1998 signalled an end of an era for Hiddink, as he resigned soon after.
Return to Club Football
He was the manager at
Real Madrid where he replaced
Fabio Capello and signed
Steve McManaman but failure to deliver the league title for only a year saw him get sacked and take over the reins at another Spanish club
Real Betis in
2000 for only 3 months. However, the temptation to manage another World Cup-bound international team proved too irresistible for him as he became the head coach of the
South Korea national football team on
1 January 2001.
South Korean National Team
Success would not come easy with a team that had appeared in five straight World Cups and had yet to win a single match. Hiddink's team was also expected to perform better than the
Japan national football team Japanese team in the {{Wc|2002}} tournament co-hosted by
Japan and
South Korea. Further, it was a tradition at the World Cup that the hosts would progress to the second round of the tournament and it was clearly expressed that Hiddink's team was expected to perform to that standard as well.
His first year in charge was not met with favourable reviews from the Korean press, as he was often spotted together with his girlfriend, when some felt he should instead have been taking charge of the team. After a 2-1 loss to the US
Gold Cup team in January 2002, he was criticized again for not taking his job seriously. Nevertheless, the team he assembled was a cohesive unit that consequently proved to be the fittest team at the World Cup.
In the World Cup itself, the South Korean team achieved its first ever victory in the final stage (2-0, against
Poland national football team Poland), and after a 1-1 draw with
United States men's national soccer team the USA and a further 1-0 victory against strongly-fancied
Portugal national football team Portugal, the South Korean team qualified for the second round, already realising the hopes of the Korean nation. The 2nd round opponents were
Italy national football team Italy, who were defeated 2-1 after extra time in a game which recalled
North Korea national football team North Korea's victory over Italy in the {{Wc|1966}}. The
South Korea public then began to dream of a semi-final berth, which was attained on defeating
Spain national football team Spain on penalties. However, the South Korean team's run was halted by
Germany national football team Germany in the semi-finals. As with the
Netherlands national football team Netherlands team four years before in
France, Hiddink led his team into fourth place after a defeat to
Turkey national football team Turkey in the 3rd place playoff. For the South Korean populace, Hiddink had done a commendable job as football pundits had never expected success near approaching this scale.
Hiddink was given the unofficial title of the most popular individual in the country, and became the first-ever person to be given honorary South Korean citizenship. In addition other rewards soon followed - a private villa in
Jeju Jeju island; free flights for life with
Korean Airlines and
Asiana Airlines, free taxi rides, and so forth. The World Cup stadium in
Gwangju was renamed
Guus Hiddink Stadium in his honor shortly after the World Cup. His hometown became a popular stopover for South Koreans visiting the Netherlands.
PSV Eindhoven
Hiddink chose to return to his native country despite being persuaded to extend his contract and has since taken over the coaching duties at
PSV Eindhoven in
2003. In the
UEFA Champions League Champions League of
2004/
2005 05, he led his team into its first ever appearance in the semi-final of the tournament since it adopted its current format in
1992/
1993 93 (PSV won the European Cup, the predecessor to the modern Champions League, in
1988). PSV lost the semi-final against AC Milan narrowly.
Australian National Team
On the
July 22 22nd of July,
2005 Hiddink became manager of the
Australia national football team Australian national team. He has announced he will manage both PSV and Australia at the same time, fulfilling a clause in his contract that allows him to coach at both club and national level, but he will leave both in the Summer of 2006, after the World Cup finals. In his future career, speculation has linked him with the managership of both the English and Russian national teams.
In the
Football World Cup 2006 - Oceania-South America Qualification Playoff play-offs held with
Uruguay_national_football_team Uruguay in
Montevideo on
12 November and in
Sydney on
16 November 2005, both home teams won 1-0. Australia went on to win 4-2 on penalties – the first time Australia had qualified for the finals in 32 years, and the first time that any team had qualified through winning a penalty shoot-out.
Managerial Positions
*1983 - 1987 PSV Eindhoven (assistant manager)
*1987 - 1990 PSV Eindhoven
*1990 - 1991 Fenerbahçe
*1991 - 1994 Valencia
*1995 - 1998
Netherlands national football team Dutch National Team
*1998 - 1999 Real Madrid
*2000 - 2000 Real Betis
*2001 - 2002
South Korea national football team South Korean National Team
*2002 - current PSV Eindhoven
*2005 - current
Australia national football team Australian National Team
External links
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Guus Hiddink Profile at english.psv.nl
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Guus Hiddink Foundation
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