Johan Derksen finds it totally implausible that Ronald de Boer will stay on as an analyst for ESPN, while he is also employed as ambassador of the World Cup in Qatar. ‘s analyst The the Dutch Summer lashes out hard at the football station, which, in the eyes of Derksen, is not sufficiently intervening in De Boer’s dual function.
“I continue to find it incomprehensible that Ronald de Boer, who is employed by Qatar to promote the World Cup, can be in a journalistic program at ESPN,” said Derksen, who has another example. “And that that German boy who played at AZ (Simon Cziommer, ed.) is analyzing matches, while he is a football agent by profession. Those are things that are incompatible. Then you are unbelievable.”
Hélène Hendriks is also employed by ESPN and is present in The the Dutch Summer to explain the situation. “You do have a point there, of course,” says Hendriks. “I think ESPN has also had a conversation with Ronald and they are also very careful with it. I don’t think they are very happy with it either.” Derksen does not agree. “They’re avoiding it. He’s never been called to it.” Hendriks then says: “Yes, internally it is.” “Well, internally”, Derksen responds. “I am constantly being addressed internally about something,” he jokes. “But here, it has to happen here (in the broadcast, ed.).”
At the end of February Derks caught up Veronica Inside scathingly looking forward to De Boer because of his ambassadorship for the World Cup in Qatar. “The stupidest, naive man in the Netherlands is Ronald de Boer, who was a PR man and ambassador there. Then he comes up with quotes: ‘Yes, sometimes things go wrong. Something also sometimes goes wrong in the Netherlands’. 6500 people have died here in any building whatsoever, which is why I don’t expect anything from Frank de Boer (then still the national coach of the Dutch, ed.), because they speak the same gospel and have both played football there. that it is such a beautiful country to live in. Millionaires have an amazing life there, they have that everywhere. Those two naive peasants have never looked further, they filled their pockets and sat in the sun.”