Johan Derksen thinks it is unwise of Wesley Sneijder to stop the trainer training. The analyst of Veronica Inside even thinks that the record international of the Dutch will no longer be able to work in football any time soon. “Who is waiting for Wesley Sneijder?” said Derksen on Monday evening.
Sneijder made Wednesday evening during the preview of the Champions League match between Borussia Dortmund and Ajax (1-3) RTL 7 known not to continue with the trainer course. As the main reason, the 37-year-old born Utrechter told presenter Humberto Tan that he was ‘not on a par with the KNVB’. “I see myself much more as a manager than a real field trainer,” said Sneijder. “My wish was actually that I could get a bit of customization. But that did not fit the image of the KNVB.”
Derksen is critical of Sneijder’s attitude. “When he joined us last summer The the Dutch Summer was, then I found it very easy to talk about that course,” says the analyst. “I understand: such top football players are suddenly confronted with teachers who have never been able to hit a ball like that, so they don’t take those teachers so seriously. But he had the arrogant tone of: he wanted to take a look at the course, and he wasn’t going to get in with an ordinary club. In other words: he immediately wanted to have a European top club. Then I thought: Well boy, then you won’t get a club.“
“And now, after three days of training, he has stopped, because he considers himself more of a manager…”, sighs Derksen. “But that boy is full, and he is 35 or so (37, ed.), and he has never led a company, let alone that he can coach people well. And he finds it all so easy, but I think it is very unwise what he is doing. Because he has now ensured that no one in football will ever call on him. Which club is waiting for Wesley Sneijder, who stopped after three weeks, while those top football players really continued that course are piloted. They just have to walk along.”
Derksen also does not see any other role for Sneijder. “If you don’t have a diploma, you can’t go anywhere. Look, director of a football club, he is completely unsuitable for that. Then you really have to be able to do something these days, if you want to be director of a football club. Then you have to be really versatile and know about many things.”
Table companion Valentijn Driessen thinks that Sneijder is sending ‘a very bad signal’. “Go to that course unprepared, otherwise you know what to expect,” says Driessen. “Then you have to put on your blinders for a year and bite through that sour apple. But you have Mark van Bommel, Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids… even Phillip Cocu, Frank de Boer and Giovanni van Bronckhorst can’t get enough. And then Sneijder thinks … I think that no great trainer will be lost to him anyway.”