Eva Jinek has provided text and explanation on Instagram for the much-discussed fragment with Sjaak Polak. In February 2020, the presenter invited the former professional to her talk show Jinek† Polak told an anecdote there about tying up then teammate Anthony Obodai to a massage table. Jinek shares on an Instagram Story that she has contacted Obodai, who was unaware of the action.
In the fragment, Jinek invites Polak to tell his story, which she dismisses as ‘dressing room humor’. The former left back blows out about his period at Sparta Rotterdam. “Obodai always walked down the hall naked because he had such a fantastic body. Stark naked. He would always say: I am the king. Then I said: ‘Now you have to stop, because you are only a Smurf’. Then he walked back to that massage table.”
Polak says that he and his former teammate Ricky van den Bergh grabbed Obodai and tied up the Ghanaian. “I walked very quietly to the medical cabinet and took out one of those wooden spatulas. I grabbed ‘Red Hot’ – a pretty spicy balm – and looked into his sphincter. I just kept waiting for him to relax and hit that spatula. on his tailbone. Eventually I’ll get him down through his buttocks, through that scrotum.”
I missed it at the time but did Kaag have that too @Jinek_RTL said when there was a riot about this juicy anecdote that Jinek insisted on being told? oh no wait…… pic.twitter.com/Ura0Ldaqod
— Tis (@Itishelder) Apr 30, 2022
Isn’t this many times more intense than what we’re in this week #VIVday have seen? Haven’t heard anything about it in the media, or am I overlooking something?#derksen #jinekCheck ‘Dressing room humor 2.0’ on Dumpert https://t.co/irsHE0YfIN
— Patricia van Andel (@PvanAndel) May 1, 2022
The fragment, dating from February 19, 2020, is currently going viral on the internet and is among the most viewed videos on Dumpert. Former party leader of D66 Alexander Pechtold can also be seen smiling on the fragment, which was published by The Limburger was brought up from the past. Current party leader of D66 Sigrid Kaag condemned Derksen’s incident last week. The incident in the Jinek broadcast is placed in the context of that riot.
On Sunday evening, the presenter herself gives text and explanation via Instaragm. “We talked, among other things, about the pranks that footballers play against each other. They laughed about it then, and at the table, because the men were friends with each other, these pranks were constantly playing over and over again as friends among each other. But of course it’s not just about the intention of the one who pulls the joke, but especially about the one who loses, experiences the ‘joke’.”
“That’s why I called Anthony Obodai myself today to ask him about his experience,” continues jinek. “He found the joke ‘hilarious’ and ‘very well successful’ and illustrative of the way in which the team treated each other. Ricky van den Bergh was his ‘very best friend’ within the team and he liked Sjaak Polak ‘very much. It never bothered him, ‘not then and not now’, because as far as he was concerned it was just a very well-done joke that suited how they interacted with each other.”
Jinek shows that the item in question was made with premeditation. “We knew then that the men had been close teammates and friends. So we weren’t sitting around the table laughing about a bad incident that bothered someone. I think it’s very bad that some people now suggest that and that’s why I thought it was important to speak to Anthony himself and share this with you. I hope I was able to allay the worry about it.”