APR FC have confirmed news of hiring of René Hiddink as the new assistant coach to Ernie Brandts.
“It is confirmed that we are signing René Hiddink to be assistant coach. He arrived on Friday and will be serving a two-year renewable contract,” Adolph Kalisa, the secretary general of APR FC told Igihe.com.
“Our objective as a team is to win the Rwandan championship, the regional CECAFA and to reach in CAF. It’s been a long time since we reached the CAF semi-finals and we want to bring back that glory and progress as far as possible,” he added.
However, Kalisa declined to comment on the salary of the new assistant coach saying it’s not necessary to make it public.
René Hiddink was previously the assistant coach of FC Dordrecht, a professional football team in Netherlands. He has worked before with Ernie Brandts at Da Graafschap, also in Netherlands.
He is a brother to the renowned coach Guus Hiddink who was a coach in Chelsea FC, the South Korean national team and several other teams.
APR FC started it’s training this morning, in preparation for the upcoming preseason games which start on 7th September and the PRIMUS cup which starts on 17th September.
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