Vitesse won 2-1 against AZ on Sunday afternoon without Riechedly Bazoer. Kenneth Perez and Ronald de Boer praise trainer Thomas Letsch’s decision to suspend the 24-year-old defender after an incident during training last Friday. At the same time, the analysts in the program conclude This was the Weekend from ESPN that the incident is ‘a huge waste’ for Bazoer.
Bazoer would have kicked on Friday’s training with teammate Daan Huisman and then went into a verbal battle with Letsch and captain Remko Pasveer, reported the Gelderlander. Letsch subsequently suspended Bazoer for the game with AZ. The Telegraph later added that Bazoer immediately repented, but that the players group felt that a suspension should follow.
“I think it’s a strong signal from a coach”, De Boer says. “There are norms and values, he has not adhered to them. If you’re going to haggle … Of course it’s nice that you win. Then you can show that the strongholds are important, but that they can also do without them. The knife cuts both ways, in my view. ”
“It makes you stronger as a trainer, regardless of whether you win or lose. You get the respect of the group of players, because you set the standard. What is allowed and what is not allowed? You shouldn’t change that. A trainer is the most important man, the leader of the team. Not just from Bazoer, but from the entire team ”, Perez continues. De Boer calls it ‘crucial’ that Vitesse won from AZ in their own stadium. Perez asks his colleague what would have happened if Vitesse had not won.
“This is crucial for second place. If you hadn’t won this place two would have been out of sight. Now you do. Some people may say that Letsch shows who is in charge. But there are also Vitesse fans or people in the boardroom who might say he should have talked to Bazoer. Give him a fine, for example ”, De Boer responds. Perez states that Letsch is precisely the trainer for that.
“You’ve got this far and no further, I don’t think Bazoer did anything out of the blue for the first time,” says the Danish analyst. “It is just a shame that he now appears in a bad light by himself and the general opinion about him is thrown back. He can play football, but all major clubs read or see this. He has dreams and an idea about where to play football. ” De Boer shares this opinion and emphasizes that Bazoer ‘the snot works before his eyes’.
Pasveer, who allegedly got into trouble with Bazoer last Friday, is also asked about the incident after the game with AZ. “There is nothing wrong. Tomorrow (Monday, ed.) He will be there again and then we will go full throttle. I never argue with boys and also not with Bazoer, I like him very much ”, the goalkeeper / captain of Vitesse responds in conversation with ESPN. “Maybe this was necessary for a while. On the other hand: you can see that we are standing up as a team. Especially Enzo (Cornelisse, ed.), Who stands in his position and has done very well. That gives some extra energy. “