Guus Hiddink

Guus Hiddink is old a Football or Dutch, reconverted trainer, born the November 8th 1946 with Varsseveld (Netherlands).

Biography

Author of a modest career of player, Guus Hiddink became one of the most famous trainers of football of the world.

After having begun its functions in the club from De Graafschap, it unloads with PSV Eindhoven as an assistant before taking into 1986 the reins of the team, with whom it gains the Ligue of the Champions in 1988. From the start, it imposes its style. In the purest tradition of the total football Dutch , Hiddink indeed recommends a spectacular play, turned towards the offensive, and which is based on a strong physical impact. From 1990, Hiddink tries the adventure abroad, first of all in Turkey, then in Spain. It returns to the Netherlands in 1995 to take the head of the national selection. But in spite of players of an exceptional quality, Hiddink does not manage to obtain the least trophy, the fault partly with the violent internal arguments which shake sometimes the Dutch group and put in danger the cohesion of the team. The Netherlands de Hiddink reach however the quarterfinals of the Euro 96 (eliminated with the shootings with the goal by the France) and the semi-final of the World cup 1998 (eliminated with the shootings with the goal by the Brésil).

Following this experiment mitigated with the national selection, Hiddink sets out again in Spain, where it involves successively the prestigious Real Madrid then the Betis Seville, for disappointing results. Its career rebounds when he is contacted in 2001 by the South Korean federation of football to take the head of the national team, for the World cup 2002 that Korea Co-organizes with Japan. Hiddink had marked the spirits in Korea beforehand when the Netherlands had currycomb the South Korea (5-0) during the World 1998. The first results of Hiddink to the head of the Korean team cause a certain disappointment. But Hiddink does not miss the expiry awaited so much by hoisting its team until the semi-final of " sa" World cup. Practitioner a spectacular, sharp and technical football, also profiting from an often favorable arbitration, South Korea is the large revelation of the competition and allows his selector to become again one of the most coveted technicians world of football.

At the conclusion of the World cup 2002, Hiddink however takes its world with opposite course while deciding to return to the PSV Eindhoven, club with which it creates the feeling again by reaching the semi-final of the Ligue of the Champions 2005. In parallel, Hiddink is also since August 2005 the selector of the team of Australia, with which it obtained a historical qualification for the World cup 2006. It carried out a course more than honourable at the time of the final stage, by ammenant the " socceros" in 8th of finale. However Hiddink having signed at the beginning of April 2006, in Moscow, contract a two year old to deal with the selection of Russia after the World cup, left its functions of trainer of the PSV Eindhoven and selector of Australia. It qualified the team of Russia for the Euro 2008 thanks to an ultimate success vis-a-vis Andorre (0-1), and counted on the improbable defeat of England at her against Croatia (2-3).

Career of player

Career of trainer

Prize list of trainer

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