According to Valentijn Driessen, the elimination of the Netherlands at the European Championship in the eighth final cannot remain without consequences. In an analysis of the performance of the the Dutch squad at the European final tournament, he is extremely critical of national coach Frank de Boer, the players of the Dutch national team and the top of the KNVB. “All in all, this European Championship is for trainers and players of the Dutch to be very ashamed,” he writes after the 0-2 defeat against the Czech Republic in Budapest.
Driessen states that the Dutch has thrown sand in the eyes of everything and everyone, including itself, for three weeks. “Except for a bunch of mediocre Czech footballers”, Driessen begins his damning analysis on the website of The Telegraph. “Those Czechs – grab him from the FC Groningen level – exposed national coach Frank de Boer, his disastrous, defensive 3-5-2 system and his stars from Barcelona, Liverpool/Paris Saint-Germain, Internazionale, Juventus and Ajax.”
According to Driessen, the players are partly to blame for the elimination in the eighth finals. “The elimination also reveals a shocking lack of football personalities in the squad, staff and everything that surrounds them. All kinds of piggybacks, performance coaches, charlatans and whatnot were given the space to profile themselves,” says Driessen, who accuses De Boer of having abandoned the 4-3-3 system, with which ex-national coach Ronald Koeman was successful. . “Instead of embroidering on Koeman’s work, De Boer threw everything that the Dutch School stands for into the Amsterdam canals a few weeks before the European Championship.”
After the defeat, De Boer got into conversation with the NOS already a question about his future as national coach. “I don’t have to answer that yet,” De Boer responded. “We’re going to think about it quietly.” The national coach will soon meet with the management of the KNVB for an evaluation. “In fact, only one conclusion can be drawn: De Boer has performed anything but sufficiently with a collection of great players,” says Driessen. “Apart from missing the last four of the Nations League and the dramatic start of the World Cup qualifier with Turkey, this terrible European Championship cannot remain without consequences.”
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“With good decency, he can hardly be maintained – on his way to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, in more than sixteen months”, Driessen continues, that the KNVB summit with Nico-Jan Hoogma, departing director Eric Gudde and Commissioner Han Berger also cannot. go free because they have appointed De Boer. Driessen not only accuses De Boer of missing out on the quarterfinals, but also that he opted for the 5-3-2 system in the group stage against Ukraine, Austria and North Macedonia. According to him, it was a ‘disastrous error of judgment’. “Whoever dared to critically analyze those three duels could see that De Boer and his players were heading for their downfall.”
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