Ruud Gullit is very disappointed with the reaction of the KNVB to the boycott of social media by the British sports world, the former the Dutch international says in his column in The Telegraph. On behalf of the Mijnals committee, Gullit disapproves of the reluctance of the KNVB to take action against racism, but especially the reason of the organization not to participate in the boycott is not good: “This turns my stomach.”
“The KNVB makes itself ridiculous and should be ashamed of the fact that the largest sports association in the Netherlands ignores the international boycott of social media by FIFA, UEFA and the Formula 1 world as a fist against racism on the major platforms,” they say. words of the 66-time international. “This turns my stomach around. I took note of this on Friday afternoon and I am incredibly disappointed in my KNVB. This means that my KNVB just doesn’t feel it and doesn’t want to see what has happened in this country in recent seasons. ”
English football has been united in a social media boycott this weekend. The clubs from the Premier League, the English Football League and the Women’s Super League will be silent from Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. to Monday evening at 11:59 p.m. on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The boycott was organized by various football players and serves as a protest against racism and other forms of online misconduct. In a response to the initiative from England, a spokesperson for the KNVB indicated that in England there is ‘a long history that is unknown in the Netherlands, which would make a boycott fall out of the blue’.
“There are people at the KNVB who do not want to take any action,” Gullit responds to the KNVB’s report. Eric Gudde, general director of the KNVB, has good intentions. He has asked us for help before. But there are people in other places in Zeist who do not want this. I do not hear Jan Smit, the chairman of the supervisory board. I don’t hear Jan de Jong, director of the ECV. I find it shocking what is going on here now. How on earth can you say that the Netherlands has no previous history and is therefore not participating? The KNVB does not see the urgency. Why not make a fist? When the Super League had to be stopped, the whole world came into action and it was finished in two days. That should be the case here too, ”Gullit concludes.
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