Dutch football trainer Guus Hiddink will get 95 million rubles ($3.1 million) from Roman Abramovich's National Football Academy for his 2010 work with the Russian national team, a Russian daily reported on Friday.
Hiddink's contract expired after the World Cup, but Russia's playoff defeat by Slovenia in November 2009 meant it failed to qualify for the tournament in South Africa and the trainer has overseen just one match since - a 1-1 draw with Hungary in March.
He had not been paid since January 1 and his agent Kees van Nyuvenheyzen had threatened to sue the Russian Football Union over the debt.
Sergei Kapkov of the National Football Academy told Kommersant newspaper that the payment would close the issue of the football union's debts to Hiddink.
"There will be no dispute with the coach," Kapkov was quoted as saying. He added that everything was laid out in an agreement with the Dutchman's attorneys.
Hiddink starts work as Turkey's head coach on August 1. His countryman Dick Advocaat, the former Zenit St. Petersburg coach, has already been appointed to lead Russia's qualifying campaign for the Euro 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine.
Hiddink's tenure reached its high point at Euro 2008, when the team beat the Netherlands 4-1 on the way to the semifinals, where they lost to eventual champions Spain.
He has good relations with Abramovich and took temporary charge of the Russian billionaire's Chelsea team after Brazilian Luis Felipe Scolari was sacked in February 2009. The National Football Academy had been paying Hiddink's salary but called a halt at the start of the year.
MOSCOW, July 16 (RIA Novosti)
