South Korea coach Guus Hiddink will return to PSV Eindhoven when the team's World Cup campaign ends, according to reports in the Netherlands on Friday.Hiddink, a Dutchman who coached PSV to win the European Cup in 1988, leads South Korea into their first World Cup quarter-final against Spain on Saturday.
The report on Dutch news agency ANP on Friday said that if the co-hosts lose, he could then sign a two-year deal with PSV.
"As long as Guus is in the World Cup with South Korea, he won't take a decision over his future," PSV Chairman Harry van Raaij is quoted as saying.
"I am confident it will be finalised, but his two-year term could very well become a three-year term.
"We want clarity, but Guus told me clearly: 'I am coming back to the Netherlands and I am only talking to PSV'," Van Raaij said.
If Hiddink went back to PSV it would cause great disappointment in South Korea, where he is a hero and a campaign has been launched to offer him South Korean citizenship.
A PSV spokesman could not confirm Van Raaij's comments.
Hiddink would fill the vacancy left at PSV by Erik Gerets, who was fired at the end of the season.
Hiddink, 55, had spells with PSV Eindhoven, Fenerbahce and Valencia before taking over the Dutch national team in 1995.
He took them to the quarter-finals of the 1996 European championships and the semi-finals of the 1998 World Cup and then coached Real Madrid and Real Betis before taking over the South Korean side in 2000.
Dutchman Pim Verbeek, who is assisting Hiddink in South Korea as deputy coach, has already signed a one-year contract with PSV to run their youth system.
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