Indonesia football federation parts ways with national team coach Kluivert

VIDEO SHOWS: FORMER INDONESIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM PATRICK KLUIVERT ARRIVING AT SOEKARNO HATTA AIRPORT / KLUIVERT ATTENDING FIRST NEWS CONFERENCE AS HEAD COACH AND POSING WITH PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ERICK THOHIR SHOWS: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (FILE – JANUARY 11, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. VARIOUS OF FORMER INDONESIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM, PATRICK KLUIVERT (DARK BROWN JACKET, WHITE TEE), ARRIVING AT SOEKARNO HATTA AIRPORT JAKARTA, INDONESIA (FILE – JANUARY 12, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 2. KLUIVERT (DARK GREY SUIT) ARRIVING AT A HOTEL BALLROOM SURROUNDED BY MEDIA / KLUIVERT WALKING UP ONTO STAGE, TAKING SEAT 3. EVENT IN PROGRESS 4. KLUIVERT WITH EVENT MODERATOR ON STAGE 5. CAMERAMAN FILMING 6. BANNER HANGING ON WALL, READING (Bahasa Indonesia): "INDONESIA NATIONAL TEAM" 7. DUTCH FORMER FOOTBALLER, DANNY LANDZAAT (LEFT),  KLUIVERT (CENTRE) AND PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (PSSI) ERICK THOHIR (RIGHT) POSING FOR MEDIA 8. CAMERAMEN FILMING 9. KLUIVERT LEAVING EVENT VENUE WITH MEDIA SURROUNDING STORY: Indonesia have parted ways with its Dutch national men's national soccer team coach, Patrick Kluivert, after nearly 12 months on the job, the country's soccer federation said on Thursday (October 16), citing a mutual agreement. Kluivert's departure follows Indonesia's "devastating" loss on Saturday (October 11) in Jeddah against Iraq, ending their chances to qualify for next year's World Cup in the United States. Indonesia were looking to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since the country claimed independence from the Netherlands in 1945, and their progress to the fourth round of Asia's preliminaries was the country's best performance to date. Former AC Milan, Ajax and Barcelona player Kluivert was hired in January, with his contract set to expire in 2027. He oversaw a team built largely on players from the country's Dutch diaspora. (Production: Johan Purnomo, Zahra Matarani)

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