Coach Marvik ... led the UAE national team for 9 months and was sacked for poor results
Dutchman, Bert Van Marwijk, will return to the 2010 World Cup summer to coach the Emirates national football team, after the latter announced Monday that it had reached an agreement to contract with him.
A statement by the federation stated that it had reached "an agreement with the Dutchman Van Marwijk to train the national team, and the contracting procedures will be formally completed upon his arrival in the country in the coming days."
Van Marwijk was dismissed from his post in early December 2019 after leaving the first round of the Gulf Cup "24th Gulf Cup" in Doha, and Serbian Ivan Jovanovic was appointed to replace him.
And his first trip with the UAE lasted less than nine months, after he was appointed to succeed Italian Alberto Zaccheroni, who brought the national team to the semi-finals of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup at home.
But Jovanovic's trip with the "white" was not much better, so he was dismissed last April, after four months of assuming a mission during which he did not play any games due to the suspension of international competitions due to the emerging Corona virus pandemic.
Colombian Jorge Luis Pinto was fired at the end of last November, 5 months after his appointment.
In the twin qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, the UAE national team ranks fourth in their group with two wins and two losses.
He has 6 points against 11 for Vietnam, 9 for Malaysia and 8 for Thailand, but he played one game less.
The UAE national team has 4 matches left, starting next March, as it hosts Malaysia, then hosts Indonesia, and then receives Thailand and Vietnam, respectively.
Van Marwijk, 68, supervised the Netherlands national team between 2008 and 2012 and led it to the 2010 World Cup and Saudi Arabia between 2015 and 2017 and contributed to its return to the 2018 World Cup, before supervising the Australian national team in the 2018 World Cup, where it lost twice and drew once.
Feyenoord led Rotterdam to the European Cup title in 2002, as well as supervising Borussia Dortmund.
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