{"id":3855,"date":"2026-05-11T21:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:01:26","slug":"world-cup-debutant-curacao-parts-with-coach-amid-reports-advocaat-could-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Debutant Cura\u00e7ao Parts With Coach Amid Reports Advocaat Could Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6><u>World Cup<\/u> debutant Cura\u00e7ao parted ways with coach Fred Rutten on Monday amid reports <u>Dutch veteran Dick Advocaat<\/u> is returning to the team he led through qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The uncertainty around the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for a men\u2019s World Cup comes less than five weeks before a testing opening game against Germany in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Rutten took the job in February after the 78-year-old Advocaat stepped down citing his daughter\u2019s health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Under Rutten, the team lost two warmup games in March \u2014 against Australia and China, both in Australia \u2014 with players reportedly wanting Advocaat back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>&#8220;I regret how things unfolded but I wish everyone the best,&#8221; Rutten said in a <u>statement<\/u> posted by the Cura\u00e7ao soccer federation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Rutten previously coached Dutch clubs Twente, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, and Schalke in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The federation is expected to hold a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Cura\u00e7ao is joined by <u>Ghana<\/u>, <u>Morocco<\/u> and <u>Saudi Arabia<\/u> in changing coaches since the World Cup draw in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Cura\u00e7ao is an autonomous territory of about 156,000 people in the Caribbean within the Netherlands kingdom. The team relies almost entirely on players born and raised in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY World Cup debutant Cura\u00e7ao parted ways with coach Fred Rutten on Monday amid reports Dutch veteran Dick Advocaat is returning to the team he led through qualifying. The uncertainty around the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for a men\u2019s World Cup comes less than five weeks before a testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}