Guus Hiddink: biography, career, personal life

Guus Hiddink - a prominent Dutch coach who has experience behind many strong clubs in Europe and several national teams, including the team of Russia. He stands out from the other teachers with their extraordinary tactical line-ups with a focus on the individual skills of each player individually.

Biography

Guus Hiddink was born November 8, 1946 in the Netherlands, in varsseveld. He grew up in a family of teachers. As a child, his main hobby was football. G. Hiddink favorite sport devoted all his spare time, while managing to help their parents.

Guus Hiddink his playing career began at an early age in the city club "varsseveld", where he identified the position of midfielder. After school, he joined the Central Institute for sports instructors in Overvene, where he was one of the best students and graduated, received a diploma with honors in 1966.

Professional Career

After the institute Guus Hiddink has signed a contract with the football club 'De Graafschap' of Doetinchem, while being the team coach for children who lag behind in development. Children's mentor he stayed until 1984, combining this work with a professional football activities.

In 1969, football has helped, "De Graafschap to" go in the first division of the Dutch championship, after which he moved to the "Washington Diplomats" of the North American Soccer League. Later Guus Hiddink signed a contract with "San Jose Earthquakes," and after a while he played for the club from NEC Neymengema. Gus in 1981 with honors, was accepted back into the "De Graafschap", which included a few years football career ended. On account of Guus Hiddink as a player 500 matches and 80 goals for 15 years.

Guus Hiddink: biography, career, personal life

Coaching

Since 1981, after returning to the "De Graafschap", Guus Hiddink was an assistant coach. At the same position, he moved in 1984 to PSV, where since 1987 he was promoted to head coach. Under him the most titled club won the Dutch Eredivisie three times and three times Cup of the Netherlands, as well as possession of the European Cup in 1988 (later reformed in the UEFA Champions League). In 1990, Gus has signed an agreement with the Turkish club "Fenerbahce", and the following year he was the head coach of the Spanish team, "Valencia".

In 1995 he was invited to lead the national team of the Netherlands. In 1998 he held the World Cup in France, where the Dutch team in a hard struggle took fourth place, losing in the third-place match Croatia.

After the World Cup Guus Hiddink led the Madrid "Real", which soon took the Intercontinental Cup. But because of disagreements with the club in 2000, he had to go first in the "Real Betis", and another six months - the national team of South Korea. What seemed to regress all the skeptics, actually it turned out to be the best decision for the coach. At the 2002 World Cup, held in South Korea, under the tutelage of Guus Hiddink's team came in fourth place, which is still the highest achievement of the country's football. After this success, the instructor returns to work at PSV, where for 4 years, he helps the club win three championship national championships, one Cup and Super Cup Netherlands.

In 2005, Gus was invited to the national team of Australia, which led to the 1/8 finals of the World Cup football in Germany in 2006, where they lost to the eventual winner, the national team of Italy, at the very end of the match because of the highly controversial penalty.

At the personal request of Roman Abramovich, he was appointed head coach of Russian national football team in 2006. teacher salary was about 7 million euros. Together with the Russian national team Guus Hiddink made a splash at Euro 2008. In a heavy Russian group came into the playoffs with a second place, which brought the team to the quarter-finals on one of the tournament favorites - Netherlands. But Guus Hiddink has found the necessary strategic alignment, and his team won with the score 3: 1. This caused jubilation throughout the country. Despite the fact that in the semi-finals Spain defeated Russia, the national team led by Guus shared third place with Turkey. But as the teacher was unable to lead the national team at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the coach announced the completion of the work with the team.

Then he signed a contract with "Chelsea", which won the FA Cup in 2009. G. Hiddink left the post after the defeat in the semi-finals of the Champions League, "Barcelona." In 2010, the Turkish Football Federation agreed with Guus Hiddink agreement to work with his team. Before him stood a task exit at Euro 2012, but the team did not win the play-offs with Croatia and missed the tournament. Guus Hiddink immediately after absenteeism announced his retirement.

He then signed a contract with "Anji", which under his leadership has taken the third place in the Russian championship.

After this recession began in Guus Hiddink's career. At first, he could not bring the national team of the Netherlands at Euro 2016, then failed season, "Chelsea" team finished in tenth place in the championship of England.