World Cup debutant Curaçao parts with coach amid reports Advocaat could return

WILLEMSTAD (CURAçAO): (May 12)  World Cup debutant Curaçao parted company with coach Fred Rutten 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’s World Cup comes less than five weeks before a testing opening game against Germany in Houston.

Rutten took the job in February after the 78-year-old Advocaat stepped down citing his daughter’s health issues.