2008, ISBN: 9781156215265

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat (born 27 September 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch football former player and current coach of AZ Alkmaar. He has been moderately successful as a soccer player and as a coach, which included two stints with the Dutch national football team. He has coached a number of clubs in Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat (born 27 September 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch football former player and current coach of AZ Alkmaar. He has been moderately successful as a soccer player and as a coach, which included two stints with the Dutch national football team. He has coached a number of clubs in the Netherlands and abroad (including the Russian club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, with whom he won the 2008 UEFA Cup Final), as well as the national teams of a number of other countries, including South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Belgium. His nickname is "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels' sobriquet "The General." Advocaat won the Dutch Cup as a player with FC Den Haag. Advocaat was a defensive midfielder during his playing days. His career began as an 18-year-old with Hague club ADO Den Haag, and he made his debut with the club as 21-year old in 1967. His professional debut was 21 May 1967 in a 30 win against GVAV. He only featured for Den Haag once more that season, and that summer the San Francisco Golden Gate Gales franchise imported the Den Haag team, which included Advocaat, to play for six weeks in the United Soccer Association as part of an effort to make the sport more popular in the country. It was the following season that Advocaat won his only honour as a player, the Dutch Cup in 1968. In the 196970 he became a regular in the team, making 29 appearances that season and scoring his first goal for the club; he made 33 appearances the season after that. From the 197172, the club merged with Holland Sport and became FC Den Haag. In that season and his final season, Advocaat made a further 66 appearances and scored 6 goals. In total he made 147 appearances and scored 7 goals for the club. From 1973, h. More: Books, , Dutch-Expatriates-in-Russia~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<