Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 5:03 PM• Rian Rosendaal • Last update: 17:29

Valentijn Driessen reveals on Wednesday that the KNVB does not dare to appoint Henk Fraser as the successor of the resigned Frank de Boer. The head coach of Sparta Rotterdam is seriously in the picture as the right-hand man of Louis van Gaal, the intended new choice lord of the Dutch national team. The KNVB still has to come to a final agreement with the trainer who was already connected to the the Dutch twice in the past.

“I also don’t understand why the KNVB is so concerned about Louis van Gaal,” Driessen said on Wednesday afternoon in conversation with Radio Veronica. “To do everything possible, financially and sportingly and anything and everything to appoint him as national coach. While you may well appoint Henk Fraser. Henk Fraser has indeed done very well everywhere he has been. And I also think he has the authority with the players.”

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“Because of course people say: ‘Yes, he has never worked abroad’. But of course he speaks the language of the players very well and is also very close to players. I don’t even think it’s that strange suggestion and also know that that suggestion was alive at the KNVB. Only, they did not dare to take it, because you cannot just pick a national coach from the street at Sparta Rotterdam,” said Driessen, who expects the KNVB to accept the appointment of Van Gaal as national coach in the short term.

“The fact that they are now busy with the assistants, to record them, that is to say that they are completely out of it with Louis van Gaal himself. Only they have to meet his conditions first, and Fraser is one of the conditions “I also think that that is because the KNVB and probably also Louis would like to have someone with a color. That is another consideration for Fraser whether he should do it. Because that will now be said of course. Are you Then an apology assistant or not?” Driessen wonders aloud.