Dick Advocaat will stop as trainer of Feyenoord after this season. That said the 73-year-old Hagenaar on Tuesday in a statement on the website of the people of Rotterdam.
“This time you can keep me to it: the coming months will really be my last as a club trainer,” said Advocaat. “After a long and wonderful career, Feyenoord is a great club to close with. Hopefully – and I believe in that – we can show great things before that.”
Lawyer has been a trainer of Feyenoord since October 2019. At the time, he succeeded the dismissed Jaap Stam. Under the Hagenaar, Feyenoord made a rise to third place in the Eredivisie and the Rotterdammers reached the final of the KNVB cup. Due to the coronavirus, both competitions were ended early.
This season Feyenoord is also at the top of the Eredivisie. Advocaat’s team occupies fourth place after ten games and is five points behind leader Ajax. In the Europa League, the Rotterdammers still have a view of wintering. Since the appointment of Lawyer, Feyenoord is still unbeaten in the Eredivisie.
The lawyer has hinted more often in recent weeks that Feyenoord would be his last club as a trainer, but in the past the seasoned coach often called out that he would retire. Now the former national coach seems to have definitively ended his coaching career after 36 years. Dirk Kuijt seems to be one of the candidates to succeed Lawyer in De Kuip.
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Dick Advocaat has been trainer of Feyenoord since October 2019. (Photo: Pro Shots)
Lawyer one of the greatest Dutch coaches
Lawyer started his coaching career with the Dutch national team in 1984 as an assistant to Rinus Michels, after he was a professional footballer for eighteen years. The former player of ADO Den Haag, FC Utrecht and Sparta Rotterdammer, among others, has grown into one of the greatest trainers in the history of Dutch football.
Lawyer became the national coach of the Dutch national team for the first time in 1992, succeeding his teacher Michels. Under the leadership of the Hagenaar, Orange reached the quarter finals at the 1984 World Cup, after which he left for PSV.
Lawyer experienced his first successes at the highest level among the people of Eindhoven. He won the cup in 1996 and won the national title a year later. At his next club Glasgow Rangers, where he worked from 1998 to 2002, he also won two league titles, after which he served a laundry roster of clubs and federations.
After the Netherlands, where his national team coaching at the 2004 European Championship ended in disappointment due to the infamous substitution of Arjen Robben, he also worked at Borussia Mönchengladbach, South Korea, Zenit St. Petersburg, Belgium, AZ, Russia, PSV again. , Serbia, Fenerbahçe, The Netherlands, Sparta Rotterdam, FC Utrecht and thus Feyenoord. At Zenit he became a club icon by winning the first league title in club history.
In his last years, Advocaat mainly took on short training jobs. For example, in 2017, after the resignation of Danny Blind, he became the national coach of the Dutch national team for the third time. Although Advocaat won all his matches, the Orange did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup. After the narrow relegation with Sparta Rotterdam in 2018, he was more successful at FC Utrecht with a ticket for European football a year later.
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At the 1994 World Cup, Dick Advocaat led a final tournament for the first time as national coach of the Dutch national team. (Photo: ANP)
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