Dick Advocaat, here still in office as head coach of Serbia Photo EPA / Andrej Cukic
Dick Advocaat is the new coach of the English club Sunderland. That the Dutch coach confirmed to the AD . Sunderland sacked coach Gus Poyet earlier today.
The club makes the appointment tomorrow officially known. Lawyer gets a contract until the end of the season. According Hagenaar is a dream come true:
“This is what I always once wanted to do, the Premier League.”
Relegation Worries
Lawyer must preserve the current number seventeen of the Premier League relegation. Sunderland lost 4-0 Saturday at home to Aston Villa and is dangerously close to the relegation zone. The difference with Burnley (eighteenth place) is one point. In the last twelve league matches won only once.
Lawyer until last year coach federation with Serbia. His assistant there, Zeljko Petrovic, is a candidate to become an assistant at the English club.
Third Dutch coach in England
Sunderland will Saturday visit to West Ham United. Dutch lawyer is the third head coach in the top English football class, alongside Louis van Gaal (Manchester United) and Ronald Koeman (Southampton).
Lawyer has never worked in the Premier League. He had between 1998 and 2002 or the supervision over the Glasgow Rangers. Lawyer was coach of the Dutch national team, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Russia. He celebrated successes with Zenit St Petersburg and also worked as head coach at PSV, AZ, Haarlem, KJV, Borussia Mönchengladbach
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