Bert Van Marwijk has signed a new two-year deal to keep him as coach of the Netherlands.
Dutch coach agrees new deal until 2012
The Dutch football association has confirmed Bert Van Marwijk has signed a new two-year deal to keep him as coach of the Netherlands.
The 57-year-old, whose current deal was due to expire at the end of this year's World Cup in South Africa, was handed the extension on the back of a highly successful qualifying campaign in which the Oranje finished their group with a 100 per cent win record.
The former Feyenoord coach, who took over from Marco Van Basten in 2008, will now oversee his side's qualification for the 2012 European Championships in Ukraine and Poland, and the tournament itself should they make it.
Van Marwijk has tied assistants Dick Voorn, Phillip Cocu and Frank De Boer to new deals, as well as his entire backroom staff committing for a further two years, which he revealed was a major factor in his decision to stay on.
"I attached great importance to the fact that the entire staff would stay together," said Van Marwijk, as he prepares to face England's Group C opponents the United States on Wednesday in Amsterdam.
"That was a condition for me."
