Third-time top Dutch player De Boer replaces Ronald Koeman, who resigned this year to take the reins of Barcelona, and interim coach Dwight Lodeweges.
“The 50-year-old former foreigner will be in charge of Oranje until the World Cup in 2022,” KNVB said in a statement.
De Boer “must start immediately,” he added, adding that “he will already be on the bench for the next educational meeting against Mexico and the League of Nations duels with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy. “
De Boer, a talented left foot defender who played for Oranje between 1990 and 2004, has had a combined coaching career.
He first trained at Ajax Amsterdam in 2007 and ed Bert van Marwijk, along with retired player Phillip Cocu, the Dutch team triumphed in the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa, where they were defeated by Spain.
Later that year, he took over as interim coach at Ajax and led them to the Eredivisie champions for the 2010–11 season.
In 2014, De Boer won his fourth consecutive Eredivisie name with Ajax, the first coach for this purpose in the Dutch league.
He resigned from Ajax in 2016 and signed a three-year contract with Inter Milan in August of the same year, but was sacked after only 85 days in command after a series of defeats.
In June 2017, De Boer was announced as Crystal Palace’s new manager, but was fired 10 weeks later when Palace lost their first 4 league games of the season without scoring a singles goal.
He announced as new coach at Atlanta United in December 2018 and in his first season, the East team won the US Open and Champions Cup and played in the East Conference finals.
“Rijkaard is not interested in returning to the World Cup and Bosz extended his contract with Bayer Leverkusen,” the newspaper said.
Louis van Gaal, regarded as one of the most successful Dutch coaches who took the team to 3rd place in Brazil at the 2014 World Cup, did not come close, according to the newspaper.
As a Dutch international, De Boer has missed the orange shirt 112 times and is the third player with the highest participation after Dutch legends Wesley Sneijder and goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.
In the Netherlands, his appointment was very well received.
In the end, “it’s Frank de Boer,” said former football player and commentator Hans Kraay Jnr.
“It’s Array . . . Wiser and the fact that he didn’t have good fortune after Ajax will probably make him think that “this is a world-class opportunity for me,” Kraay told Fox Sports.
“I think it’s going to be okay,” Kraay said.