 He was made the permanent coach of the Netherlands in 1925, holding both coaching positions until the 1928 Summer Olympics when he chose to focus on the national team.He remained the manager of the Oranje until 1940, leading them to the World Cup finals in 1934 and 1938.The tournaments would be disappointments, exiting in the first round on both occasions, to Switzerland by a score of 3–2, in 1934, and then to Czechoslovakia by 3–0, in 1938.