AFP: Russia's Dutch coach Guus Hiddink says he wants to be the traitor of the year in the Netherlands and see Russia knock his countrymen out of Euro 2008 in Saturday's quarter-final.
Despite being a proud Dutchman, the 61-year-old has guided Russia into the quarter-finals from Group D and is hoping his side will beat the «Oranje» at St Jakob-Park stadium here.
More than 100,000 Dutch fans—many bedecked totally in orange—are expected to descend upon Basel and Hiddink was asked if he would feel like a traitor if Russia won.
«I want to be the traitor of the year in Holland, because if I am the traitor of the year back home, it will have meant we won the game,» joked Hiddink, who coached Holland between 1994-98.
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