DICK ADVOCAAT looks set to come out of retirement for the FIFTH time as the 75-year-old ponders an offer to take charge of Caribbean island Curacao.
The veteran Dutch boss insisted he was finally finished with football management at the end of last season in the Dutch second tier as Den Haag boss in front of just 469 fans against Jong AZ Alkmaar. He signed off with a 2-0 win.
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It was the club he first signed for as a player 56 years ago and he stressed there was no chance of anyone changing his mind after previously u-turning on quitting on four separate occasions.
However, Advocaat has been offered the chance of taking charge of former Dutch colony Curacao, who are ranked 90th in the FIFA Rankings, in their quest to reach the World Cup Finals for the first time in 2026.
He said: “We are still negotiating. It has not yet reached that point where I have accepted.
“It is mainly about the organisation. That has always been the big problem there.
“Hotels, planes, travel, it is imperative that players know what will happen when they arrive.
“I have previously arranged that in Belgium, but they have money there. Not so much in Curacao.”
If he accepts, it will be the eighth country he has managed.
He’s been in charge of the Netherlands twice, Belgium, Russia, Serbia, Iraq, UAE and South Korea.
Advocaat was in charge of Rangers from 1998 from 2002, where he famously splashed out a record £12 million on striker Tore Andre Flo.
He won two titles with Rangers, two Scottish Cups and a League Cup and signed new Ibrox manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
His first job in management was in 1980 as manager of DSVP and he’s also been manager at club sides Haarlem, SVV, Dordrecht, Borussia Monchengladbach, Zenit St Petersburg, Sunderland, Fenerbahce,
Sparta Rotterdam, Utrecht and Feyenoord as well as Rangers and what was supposed to be his final job at Den Haag, where he was born.
Curacao sacked previous boss Remko Bicentini after six games in charge following a poor CONCACAF Nations League campaign.
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