Former South Korea football coach Guus Hiddink will visit North Korea this week to open a futsal stadium, officials said Wednesday.  According to Guus Hiddink Foundation, the Dutchman will travel to Pyongyang on Thursday for a three-day trip to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for his "Dream Field," a futsal stadium for visually impaired players. Futsal is a type of football played mainly indoors with five players a side and a smaller ball. 

Dutch football manager Guus Hiddink will take on the role of an honorary president of the organizing committee for the International Blind Sports Federation World Games which will begin in Seoul this weekend.

Today, FIFA presidential candidate Michael van Praag paid a visit to the Korea Football Association (KFA). Van Praag was warmly welcomed by KFA President Chunh Mong-Gyu and Vice-President D.D. Kim.

A field for the visually impaired opened on the campus of Duksung Women's University in Seoul on Thursday with the support of the Guus Hiddink Foundation. The university provided the land and the foundation donated W144 million (US$1=W1,029) for construction.

 A Unification Ministry official on Friday said Hiddink last month said he would like to see North Korea and asked about the procedure if he was to cross the land border. He has not yet made an official application.

Former coach of Korean national soccer team, Guus Hiddink, was recently on the island for the opening of the Hiddink Dream Field. The field is for the exclusive use of the disabled in playing a variant of soccer called "futsal." As Mike Laidman now reports, Hiddink is setting up these facilities in every city that hosted a World Cup game in 2002, when he was the coach of the Korean team.

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As Guus Hiddink is preparing himself to step into the dug-out at Stamford Bridge, we're giving you 20 facts about the tactical genius whose life has turned out as interesting as his playing career... 

Coach Guus Hiddink, who has made a habit of turning second-tier teams into big event contenders, plans to continue for a long time to come - especially after taking a young Russian side on a magical ride in Euro 2008.

The children chased after the noise, and even as they bumped and tumbled they were all in good spirits. On the green pitch with these visually-impaired children was Guus Hiddink, the former coach of Korea's national soccer team and current coach of Russia's national team.

On July 11, 2007, the Guus Hiddink Foundation held a completion ceremony for the Hiddink Dream Field, a soccer field for visually impaired children. During the ceremony, Mr. Hiddink held a soccer match and gave out gifts to the children of Sung Shim House for Visually Impaired Children. The children performed traditional Korean music as a mark of appreciation for Mr. Hiddink’s efforts.

Former national football team manager Guus Hiddink on Tuesday met with a group of blind children during a visit to his old stomping ground. They gripped the coach’s hands tightly as he told them how nice it was to meet them. The former manager and a pizza franchise provided pizza for the children at the meeting.