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Also known as Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat

Dutch association football player and manager (born 1947)

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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

Music · MusicBrainz

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Advocaat">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
b. 1947
Nationality
NL
Gender
Male

Recorded by 7 libraries

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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dick Advocaat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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