Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 11:56 pm• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 00:10

Now that Nico-Jan Hoogma has indicated that he will leave the KNVB as director of top football in the summer, it can suggest about his succession starting. Presenter Wytse van der Goot showed Sunday evening in the football talk show Rondo the name of the Sunday when Everton left Marcel Brands fall. If it is up to Ruud Gullit, however, the name of Patrick Kluivert is high on the list of the Dutch football association.

Two weeks ago it was announced that Hoogma will close the door at the KNVB next summer. The director of top football will then be employed for three years and in that position has been responsible for the Dutch national team since mid-2018 – and with it the appointment of Frank de Boer and Louis van Gaal – the the Dutch Lionesses, Young the Dutch men and women and Under 19 men. . Hoogma does not want to start a completely new cycle with a new national coach, as Van Gaal’s contract expires next year after the World Cup in Qatar.

According to the dinner guests of Rondo Brands should be one of the candidates in the search for a new director of top football. Brands reached an agreement with Everton on Sunday about the surrender of his contract and will leave the Premier League club with immediate effect. “In terms of timing, the departure of Brands could be very convenient, because Nico-Jan Hoogma will leave next summer”, Van der Goot broaches the subject. “So there must be a successor. Would Brands be a good option for that?” Gullit doesn’t think that’s a crazy idea. “He does have experience.”

“I think he must be one of the candidates”, Ronald de Boer believes. Marco van Basten reacts somewhat cynically. “He doesn’t have to buy any players there,” he says with a wink. Van Basten refers to a video from last Wednesday, which shows Brands being pointed out in fierce terms by an angry Everton supporter about his failing purchase policy after the lost city derby against Liverpool (1-4). “Do you also think Patrick Kluivert is a candidate?” Gullit wonders aloud. “He has been at Paris Saint-Germain, at Barcelona. That is also a candidate, isn’t it.”