AMSTERDAM.-<\/strong> Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez was appointed this Wednesday as the new head coach of the Netherlands men’s national team, replacing Ronald Koeman, who left the position after the Dutch team’s elimination in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>PSG wins its second consecutive European Super Cup after defeating Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed that the 46-year-old Spanish coach signed a contract that will extend until the 2030 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Koeman ended his second stint in charge of the Dutch national team after being eliminated in the round of 32 of the World Cup in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, where the Netherlands fell to Morocco in a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez will take over a team again after more than two years away from the bench. His last experience as a coach was with Barcelona, a club he managed from October 2021 to May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his time with the Catalan team, Xavi won the Spanish League and the Spanish Super Cup in 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Precisely, the Spaniard had already replaced Koeman at Barcelona when he took the reins of the team in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new Dutch manager had previously expressed his interest in managing a national team and competing in major international tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavi’s official debut at the helm of the Netherlands is scheduled for September 24<\/strong>, when his team faces Germany in the Nations League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With his arrival, Xavi will face the challenge of rebuilding the Dutch team and preparing it for the cycle that will lead to the 2030 World Cup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be the former midfielder’s first experience as a national team coach, having only managed at the club level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AMSTERDAM.- Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez was appointed this Wednesday as the new head coach of the Netherlands men’s national team, replacing Ronald Koeman, who left the position after the Dutch team’s elimination in the 2026 World Cup. You might be interested in:PSG wins its second consecutive European Super Cup after defeating Aston Villa The Royal Dutch Football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[43601,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-521221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-breakingnews","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bAN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/xavi-hernandez-paises-bajos-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/xavi-hernandez-paises-bajos-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Return to the bench<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Debut against Germany<\/h3>\n\n\n\n