Dick Advocaat
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"Dirk Nicolaas "Dick" Advocaat" is a currently unemployed Dutch Association football/football manager and former player.

He has been quite successful as a football player and as a coach, which included two stints with the Netherlands national football team/Dutch national football team. He has coached a number of clubs in the Netherlands and abroad (including the Russian club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg/Zenit Saint Petersburg, with whom he won the 2008 UEFA Cup Final), as well as the national teams of a number of other countries, including Korea Republic national football team/South Korea, Belgium national football team/Belgium, and Russia national football team/Russia. His nickname is "The Little General", a reference to his mentor Rinus Michels' sobriquet "The General."

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It's a manufactured controversy and I won't participate.

Of course the opening match is important but the cut will be made after three matches.

Tomorrow we will take a final decision about Seedorf.

The will is there, that is evident in the dressing room. Whether we have the ability is another question.

We controlled the match completely but after the break we took advantage and created space to score four goals.

Because you know, the Dutch hate the Germans.

You have to let it show you are a great player.

It wasn't the substitution that turned the match, individual errors led to the Czech goals.

I'm extremely disappointed in how the game went. We had everything under control and could have decided it.