WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao (AP) — world cup Debutant Curaçao parted ways with coach Fred Rutten on Monday amid reports Dutch veteran Dick Advocaat He will return to the team he led after winning the qualifying round.
The uncertainty over whether the least-populous country in history will qualify for the Men’s World Cup comes less than five weeks before the opening test match against Germany in Houston.
Rutten took the job in February after Advocaat, 78, resigned, citing his daughter’s health problems.
Rutten’s team lost two warm-up games in March – against Australia and China, both in Australia – and the players are said to be hoping for Advocaat’s return.
“I am disappointed in the way things have unfolded, but I wish everyone the best,” Rutten said. statement Posted by the Curacao Football Federation. He previously managed Twente in the Netherlands, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord and Schalke in Germany.
The federation plans to hold a press conference on Tuesday.
Added Curacao ghana, Morocco and Saudi Arabia There has been a change of manager since the World Cup draw in December.
Curaçao is an autonomous territory of approximately 156,000 people within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea. The team relies almost entirely on players born and raised in the Netherlands.
The team will also play Ecuador in Kansas City and Ivory Coast in Philadelphia in the first 48-team World Cup. The enhanced format adds three additional assurance entries to CONCACAF.
Advocaat led his native Netherlands to the quarterfinals of the last World Cup held in the United States in 1994, and coached South Korea at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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