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Dick Advocaat
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Dutch association football player and manager (born 1947)
OverviewAI-generated
Dick Advocaat, born Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat on September 27, 1947, in The Hague, is a Dutch male association football player and coach. He holds citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and speaks Dutch. As a player, he operated as a midfielder and competed in the North American Soccer League. His club career included stints with Chicago Sting, K. Berchem Sport, VVV-Venlo, and ADO Den Haag.
In his coaching capacity, Advocaat has led Sunderland A.F.C., Feyenoord Rotterdam, Sparta Rotterdam, and the Iraq men's national football team. He also served as a manager for Curaçao. Additionally, he was a participant in UEFA Euro 2004 and UEFA Euro 2012. His published work includes the book *Conditioning for Soccer*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Conditioning for Soccer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Advocaat">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,136x
- Canagliflozin and Cardiovascular and Renal Events in Type 2 Diabetes
· 2017 · cited 6,731x
- Effects of Losartan on Renal and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy
· 2001 · cited 5,911x
- A Randomized Trial of Intraarterial Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke
· 2015 · cited 5,828x
- Human acute myeloid leukemia is organized as a hierarchy that originates from a primitive hematopoietic cell
· 1997 · cited 5,551x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1947
- Nationality
- NL
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 7 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Key facts
- 1967
- → San Francisco Gales (loan)
- 1979
- Chicago Sting
- 1980
- Chicago Sting
- 1987
- Netherlands Women
- 2005
- United Arab Emirates
- Full name
- Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat
- Date of birth
- ( 1947-09-27 ) 27 September 1947 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- The Hague , Netherlands
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Positions
- Defensive midfielder centre-back
- Current team
- Curaçao (manager)
- Years
- Team
- 1966 1973
- ADO Den Haag
- 1973 1977
- Roda JC
- 1977 1979
- VVV-Venlo
- 1979 1980
- ADO Den Haag
- 1980 1982
- Sparta Rotterdam
- 1982 1983
- K. Berchem Sport
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Curaçao
- Position
- Manager
- Nationality
- The Netherlands
via TheSportsDB
~30 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɪk ɑtfoːˈkaːt] ; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is the manager of the Curaçao national team. A successful player and manager, he is nicknamed "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels.
Advocaat has coached a number of clubs in the Netherlands and abroad (including the Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg, with which he won the 2008 UEFA Cup Final), as well as the national teams of a number of countries, including South Korea, Belgium and Russia.
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