Guus Hiddink
Guus Hiddink, 2012
Guus Hiddink ( [ ɣy ː s hɪdɪŋk ], born November 8, 1946 in Varsseveld, community wiping ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach.
Career as a player
Guus Hiddink began his professional career as a defender in 1967 VBV De Graafschap Doetinchem, played among others at PSV Eindhoven and in the North American Soccer League.
Career as a coach
After the end of his active career Hiddink was from 1981 to at De Graafschap as an assistant coach working. At PSV Eindhoven he worked from July 1982 to June 1986 as an assistant coach before he became coach in March 1987. The PSV Eindhoven he won three times the Dutch Championship ( 1987, 1988, 1989) and the KNVB Cup ( 1988, 1989, 1990) and celebrated in 1988 his greatest success as a club coach when he and his team the European Cup national champion and thus the treble of championships, Association Cup and European Cup won. After the 1989/1990 season he left Eindhoven.
In the 1990/1991 season Hiddink worked at Turkish club Fenerbahce, but could not win a title. In the summer of 1991, Hiddink moved to the Spanish La Liga for FC Valencia. He led the club twice in fourth place and thus in the UEFA Cup. The results there were disappointing (eg, a 0:7 at Karlsruher SC) and so Hiddink was sacked in November 1993.
In 1995, Guus Hiddink, coach of the Netherlands. The Dutch players were at that time although as a great talent, but she also had a reputation to block by internal disputes the absolute breakthrough. Hiddink led the team to the European Championship in England in 1996, where the team was eliminated in the quarter- final against France on penalties ( 4:5 ). In 1998, the Netherlands participated in the World Cup in France and convinced with an offensive game. In the semifinals, came again on penalties, this time against Brazil, which from ( 3:5 ). The team finally reached fourth place ( 1-2 against Croatia). Shortly after Hiddink resigned from his post.
In July 1998, Guus Hiddink took over as coach at Real Madrid. But he was fired after poor results in the league in February 1999. In December 1998 he won the World Cup with Real. On 1 February 2000 Hiddink was coach of Real Betis. His commitment there already ended in May 2000 after he was able to celebrate just one win in 13 games and the team hovered in relegation danger. At the end of the season Sevilla had actually descend from the Primera División.
On January 1, 2001, Guus Hiddink coach of South Korea. South Korea would host the World Cup along with Japan in 2002, and getting ahead was expected by the host. In the end, the team reached the fourth place. Since then, Hiddink is idolized in South Korea and has been awarded honorary South Korean citizenship. The Korean airline " Korean Air " donated to him for four years flight tickets for 1st class in the hope that he would remain until the 2006 World Cup coach, but Hiddink saw his task in South Korea to be fulfilled.
2002 Hiddink was chosen by FIFA to the national coach of the year.
After the successful World Cup Hiddink returned to PSV Eindhoven and made the club back to the most successful in the Netherlands. He won the 2003, 2005 and 2006 the championship, the 2005 Association Cup and also in 2005 moved into the semifinals of the Champions League, where one unfortunate eliminated against AC Milan.
At the World Cup in 2006, he took part with Australia. At the tournament in Germany, he led the Socceroos surprisingly down to the second round, where the team against eventual champion Italy was eliminated.
From the summer of 2006 Hiddink coached the Russian national team. The contract was signed on 13 April 2006. On 10 October 2007 it was announced that his contract will be extended for a further two years until 2010. November 21, 2007 Hiddink after qualifying for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland. Thus he has achieved for the fifth time as national coach a big tournament. However, Hiddink was also this time not permitted to reach the final. The team retired to Spain from 0-3 in the semifinals. When qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa Russia took over the German team took second place and later moved into the play-off against Slovenia the short straw. Hiddink then terminated its involvement in the summer of 2010.
On 11 February 2009, he was hired as coach at Chelsea until the end of the season 2008 /09. However, the coach of the Russian national team, he also retained, so he did not sign a contract for another season. With Hiddink Chelsea won the 2009 FA Cup .. At the end of the season he was replaced by Carlo Ancelotti.
As of August 2010 was Hiddink as the new coach of Turkey with a mission to achieve the qualification for the 2012 European Football Championship. A contract was signed over two years agreed with Hiddink had an option for a further two years. But in October 2010, he was under pressure after Turkey had lost against Azerbaijan. Then put Hiddink more on talent.
Now that Turkey had failed in the playoffs in Croatia, Hiddink's contract was terminated by mutual consent in November 2011. He was succeeded by Abdullah Avcı.
Hiddink accepted on 17 February 2012 an offer of the Russian first division club Anzhi Makhachkala over a 18- month contract. In July 2013 he gave up his office on a timely manner. Despite its announcement of 28 November 2012 to end his career as a coach at the end of the season, he was regarded as the successor of the retiring at FC Barcelona Tito Vilanova.
After the World Cup 2014 Hiddink takes over for the second time Bondscoach the Dutch national team. He signed in March 2014 a contract until after the European Football Championship 2016.
Successes (as coach )
- World Cup: 1998
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1988
- Dutch champion: 1987, 1988, 1989, 2003, 2005, 2006
- KNVB Cup: 1988, 1989, 1990, 2005
- FA Cup: 2009
- 2 EM appearances: Euro 1996, Euro 2008
- 3 Appearances: 1998 FIFA World Cup, World Cup 2002, World Cup 2006,
- 4th place at the 1998 World Cup with Holland
- 4th place at the 2002 World Cup with South Korea
- Semi-final in 2008 with Russia
Awards (as coach )
- FIFA coach of the year: 2002
- Dutch Coach of the Year: 2005, 2006
Social Commitment
In addition to his sporting activities Guus Hiddink helps the local community. He is Chairman of Guus Hiddink Foundation, an organization that promotes, among others, for the promotion of South Korean children. The Guus Hiddink Foundation includes, among others, Johan Cruyff and formerly also of the late President of the European Central Bank, Wim Duisenberg.