Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 9:21 PM• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 21:33

Frank de Boer and Jeremiah St. Juste had contact on Wednesday evening, reports The Telegraph Thursday evening. In this way, the national coach of the Dutch national team wanted to somewhat rectify his communication error surrounding the announcement of the European Championship selection. St. Juste thought he would go with the selection until shortly before the announcement, but was told by a journalist that he was not in the selection of 26 men after all.

On Wednesday afternoon, De Boer said at the press conference that he had called all ‘dropouts’ to announce the bad news, but Yoshua St. Juste assured Wednesday that his little brother was still hoping to participate at two minutes to two. At 2.30 pm, the KNVB announced via social media which defenders were allowed to join. “Jeremiah was still at two minutes to 2.30 in the hope that he would go to the European Championship,” said the agent of the defender of 1. FSV Mainz 05 in conversation with The Telegraph.

“That you have to hear from a journalist that you are not there … Shortly afterwards we got to hear the same thing through the same and the KNVB video at 2:30 was the confirmation. Earlier we received messages left and right from players who You secretly hope that Jeremiah goes to the European Championship. ” The brother of St. Juste, indoor football international himself, emphasized on Wednesday that a phone call from De Boer was not necessary. “We are very down-to-earth and real and thought at first: he may only call the guys he has really built on lately,” he said.

“Jeremiah had only been there during the last international match.” Yoshua St. Juste was also informed in the afternoon that Anwar El Ghazi was told by telephone that he was not part of the group. “Then you think if a phone call is not forthcoming: hey, maybe I will really be there. Now he came to know definitively through a video that he was not there, while he himself had not heard anything at all. press conference when asked that no one had to undergo that and he delivered the message personally, sounded strange to me, “said Yoshua St. Juste.

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