The search for a new national coach for the the Dutch women’s team is also helping Veronica Inside until the necessary discussion. Johan Derksen believes that the KNVB should preferably look for a woman to succeed Sarina Wiegman. Hans Kraay junior makes a joke about Cor Pot in the discussion, which he takes back a little later. However, Derksen does not accept that.
The discussion starts with the question of whether the KNVB should attract a big name. “We must not forget that for Wiegman, who is now completely celebrated, the women’s team was also led by B-artists,” said Derksen. Wiegman’s predecessors are Andries Jonker and Frans de Kat. “That is no big deal,” continues Derksen. “Those men are not trainers that you would like to see at your club, are they? But I think you should take a woman, because a man in a women’s team, that gives very strange situations. You should always be able to walk in, and then the ladies naked or something, then you can’t go in. I also think that women have different problems than men. “
Derksen understands that there is little enthusiasm among the male trainers to lead the women’s team. “It doesn’t look like football. That is not fun at all? Those women still need to be taught so much about technique and tactics. It is as if you are training a youth team with the amateurs. Let those women play football, there I have. nothing against it. But if you are watching it, it doesn’t look like a football match, does it? “
When Wilfred Genee suggests appointing Dick Advocaat, René van der Gijp jokes. “I wouldn’t do that with Cor Pot. Then it will be very busy in that hallway.” Kraay junior responds by saying: “That is a great surname to train the women, isn’t it, Pot.” When the commercial is over, Kraay junior returns to his joke. “I have to say: I made a wrong comment, saying that Pot is a good last name for it. I have to take it back. I thought it was a very bad comment. I say sorry.”
Derksen thinks that is nonsense: “But there are nine games in that team, after all? Everything you say falls over you in the Netherlands, but then you can keep saying sorry. Then you no longer fit into our culture, if you feel like that. is going to draft. ” Van der Gijp agrees: “We’re not going to say sorry, Hans.” Kraay junior, however, stands firm. “This is the first time in fourteen years that I’ve said sorry. I’m just saying sorry.” Derksen jokes at the end of the discussion: “Then I just want to say sorry on our behalf, that you say sorry.”