Guus Hiddink 80 jaar -

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Subject to developments in the field of football, Phillip Cocu, Ji-sung Park, Jan Reker, Mart van den Heuvel and Kees Ploegsma Sr. will take their place at the talk show table in Eindhoven.

Guus Hiddink is considered the most successful coach in Dutch football history. The global citizen from the Achterhoek won the European Cup 1 with PSV in 1988, reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2005 and became national champion six times with the Eindhoven club. With Real Madrid he won the World Cup for club teams in 1998, with the Dutch team he reached the semi-finals of the World Cup in France earlier that year and with Chelsea he won the FA Cup in 2009.

At least as impressive was his ability to get the most out of apparent outsiders, as he did with South Korea (2002 World Cup semi-final), Australia (2006 World Cup second round) and Russia (2008 European Championship semi-final). It earned him honorary citizenship of Seoul and a statue in Crimea, among other things.