Korea Hires New Coach

UPDATE: Oh My News has a good article on the hiring of Coach Advocaat:

Dick Advocaat is known as one of soccer’s disciplinarians, someone who is used to doing it his way, on and off the training field. It certainly wouldn’t be advisable for the KFA to give the two-time coach of the Netherlands a four-year-old tape of an opponent.

By appointing the “Little General” and bringing back Pim Verbeek to South Korea, who was Guus Hiddink’s assistant from December 2000 to June 2002, the KFA has got what it wanted; a big-name coach with World Cup experience as well as knowledge of South Korea, the domestic scene and the players.

It doesn’t look like the KFA will be pushing this guy around like they did the prior coach Joe Bonfrere.
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Korea has finally hired their new soccer team headcoach:

Korea is betting on yet another Dutchman to take the national football team to glory in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The Korean Football Association has decided to hire Dick Advocaat (58) despite potential wrangles over the coach’s contract with the UAE, it announced Tuesday. Advocaat is to take over where his fellow countryman Jo Bonfrere left off after the latter’s ignominious departure earlier this month.