Johan Derksen is not particularly pleased with the leadership of the KNVB. The analyst thinks it is unhealthy that the highest organ of the Dutch Football Association mainly consists of Jan Smit relations, he says on Sunday morning in the European Championship show of Jan Smit. Football International. Derksen believes that the functioning of a number of board members should be critically examined, now that the the Dutch squad has been eliminated early from the European championship and national coach Frank de Boer has thrown in the towel after nine months as national coach.
“Jan Smit has done fantastic things as chairman of Heracles”, Derksen starts positively. “As an honorary position he (Smit, ed.) gets the job as chairman of the supervisory board at the KNVB. He then has good experiences with Hoogma and he talks it in. Then I think: Jan Smit had good experiences with him. , but has it been checked that such a man can handle that job?” Smit and Hoogma worked together at Heracles for many years as chairman and general manager respectively.
Jan Albers also entered the KNVB in this way, Derksen believes. Albers was nominated by the Supervisory Board as new chairman at the end of May and will start his new position at the football association on September 1. “Now I see that Jan Smit is being succeeded by a gentleman who was on the supervisory board at PSV,” Derksen continues. “Then I see that he also has a top position at TenCate, which was the main sponsor of Heracles. So I think Jan Smit also brought him in as a successor. Isn’t it strange that the entire KNVB is full of Jan Smit’s relations? “
Finally, Derksen comes with a critical note to press secretary Bas Ticheler, who, according to the analyst, should have forced a number of players to speak to the press after the elimination of the the Dutch against the Czech Republic. The NOS wanted Donyell Malen and Memphis Depay for the camera after the game against the Czechs, but failed. “Don’t you think that internationals should have an agreement with the KNVB that they are obliged to speak to the media?” Derksen wonders aloud. “That is part of their profession. They are kicked out and Depay and Malen do not want to speak to the press. You are a professional, aren’t you?”
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