Advocaat to quit Zenit at end of season - paper

MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) - Zenit St. Petersburg trainer Dick Advocaat will definitely leave the club at the end of the season, Sport Express said on Tuesday, citing a source in the Belgian FA.

Francois De Keersmaeker, the head of Belgian football's governing body. earlier said that a deal had been agreed with Advocaat, 61, that would see the Dutch coach take over the national side at the end of this year, when his contract with Zenit expires. However, Advocaat has yet to put pen to paper.

The Belgian FA dismissed national coach Rene Vandereycken in April after a series of results in World Cup qualifiers left Belgium with little hope of qualifying for the final stages of the 2010 tournament.

Zenit earlier hinted that they would agree to Advocaat combining club and national side posts next year, but De Keersmaeker has said that, "the distance between Belgium and St. Petersburg is too great" to make this is a realistic possibility.

Sport Express earlier said that Advocaat's salary would be 2 million euros ($2.7 million) a year.

Advocaat, who took over at Zenit in 2006 and has led them to the Russian title and the UEFA Cup, has previously managed his native Netherlands (twice), South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Glasgow Rangers and Germany's Borussia Monchengladbach.