Noa Lang will get it on Monday evening Veronica Inside. The 22-year-old attacker of Club Brugge gave a startling interview on Belgian television after the victory against KRC Genk (2-3) on Sunday, which came to be criticized by Johan Derksen. “Can’t we qualify him as a sick boy?”, says Derksen.
Lang decided the game with a goal and assist and got in front of the camera from Eleven Sports the question of how happy he was with that. “As it should be”, was his short answer. “People talk a lot… just let them know. Who are those? Those people themselves know that. I’m ready. I won’t say much about it, I have a goal and an assist. We won, that’s the main thing. I don’t care what is said. I do what I want. I score, I decide how I cheer.”
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In Veronica Inside the interview is watched with astonishment. “This already makes it clear that that boy has never been criticized and will in any case never be able to deal with criticism,” said Derksen. “But if you put on shorts and you play football, you sometimes play badly. And the newspapers and the supporters think so, that makes you a big boy. But who does this boy think he is? Lord Jesus, or what? That he’s untouchable, that we should all bow to Noa Lang? He’s just a creep of a boy. It’s a form of self-conceit, that he’s exalted above all the world.”
Wim Kieft also lashes out at Lang. “He’s just an annoying kid, we can all agree on that,” said the former striker. “It is much more painful that in all that guidance of that boy nobody can tell him in a certain way or make it clear that this is not the way. I think that is why Ajax no longer wanted him. Because that boy can play football and has something special, we all see that. And then he is on the right track at Club Brugge and then he is also judged as a good player. If you don’t score seven matches after that, it is not surprising that someone once times says, ‘Hey buddy, I’m not okay.'”
The interview reminds René van der Gijp of the behavior of Memphis Depay. “I saw that interview and I thought: he has one brain cell, or he is struggling a bit with his identity, his behavior,” said Van der Gijp. “A bit like what Memphis had at the time of that documentary. That you thought: what the hell am i looking at? Let’s hope it’s the second one with Lang, he’ll figure that one out too. That wrestling, I can imagine something with that. In my time there was no social media, if you also sit and stare at it you will not be happy either. It’s also uncertainty, it’s a bit of craziness. He thinks this is cool, while this is a little crazy.”