Siemen Mulder has failed the fitness test for the second time, so you know The Telegraph to report. The 37-year-old captain now has to pass his third fitness test, because otherwise ‘his name will definitely go through for professional football’. It looks like Serdar Gözübüyük and Erwin Blank have passed their second fitness test.
The Telegraph wrote at the beginning of this month that Mulder, Gözübüyük, Blank and assistants Joey Waleveld, Maarten Ketting, Charl Schaap and Frank Janssen had failed their fitness test. As a result, the referee appointments had to be turned upside down at the beginning of April, although Gözübüyük was struggling with knee complaints at the time and he used the test as part of his rehabilitation. The Telegraph now puts forward similar reasons why Mulder failed for the second time.
Referee boss Dick van Egmond is not worried for that reason. Mulder was injured during the test and therefore failed. The KNVB now gives the leader all the time to recover and prepare for the third test, which should secure his future in professional football. Mulder whistled his last game for the time being on March 21, when he was in charge of the game between Heracles Almelo and Sparta Rotterdam (1-1). He has been active in professional football since 2012, made his debut in the Eredivisie in 2014 and was provisionally in charge of more than two hundred matches in the Honorary and Kitchen Champion Division.