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By on July 11th, 2005 at 9:24 am

Hiddink to Australia?

CNN is reporting that former South Korean soccer coach Guus Hiddink may be offered a job to coach the Australian soccer team:

Guus Hiddink, the Dutchman who steered South Korea to a World Cup semifinal berth in 2002, is among the candidates to succeed Frank Farina as coach of Australia.

John Boultbee, the high performance manager for the Football Federation of Australia, said that Hiddink was one of the candidates that Australia had spoken to in the past two weeks since Farina resigned.

“We’re talking to a very small number of candidates, of which Hiddink is one,” Boultbee said. “We’re making good progress.”

Judging Hiddink’s past record is anyone willing to bet that Australia goes to the World Cup semi-finals? Hiddink took the Netherlands to the semi-finals in 1998 and the South Korean team to the semi-finals in 2002.

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