Johan Derksen has a Friday night in Veronica Inside lashed out at the Mijnals committee. As chairman of that committee, Humberto Tan on Thursday fiercely criticized the procedure followed by the KNVB when appointing national coach Frank de Boer. “I am getting very tired of the Mijnals committee,” said Derksen on Friday evening.

The Mijnals Committee, which was set up by the KNVB itself, aims to provide the KNVB and the national government with ‘information and, if necessary, action in realizing the ambitions in terms of racism, discrimination and the football.’ According to Tan, the KNVB is ‘talking about diversity’, but the union has not entered into discussions with anyone with a migration background. “From day one it was clear that Frank would succeed Ronald Koeman”, says Tan, who thinks that approaching Frank Rijkaard can be seen as ‘pure window dressing’. “Rijkaard has been used as an alibi: look at how we deal with diversity.”

Derksen does not agree at all with Tan’s criticism. “The Mijnals committee wanted a black coach”, Derksen gives a fairly oversimplified analysis. “I immediately said: Henk ten Cate and Ruud Gullit, that could be a combination. And for the rest we still have Clarence Seedorf, who has not performed at all as a trainer. Well, they have not taken those three. And that. keeps whining, and that keeps whining.

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“What are they interfering with? If they had found the KNVB that Seedorf was the ideal man to continue the Ronald Koeman line, they would have. And I also do not know whether a committee is now through the publicity. criticism. I think the KNVB has done well: there was no better alternative than Frank de Boer. “

One of Tan’s criticisms is that the KNVB should at least have talked to other candidates. Valentijn Driessen agrees. “It could have been so easy: invite Henk ten Cate and Ruud Gullit”, the journalist said The Telegraph. “I think Ten Cate and De Boer are equal candidates.”

According to Derksen, it is chic of the KNVB not to invite Ten Cate first and then reject it after all. “They had a reason not to want Ten Cate. And it is actually damaging when they give that reason, because that may not be for publicity. They had a reason not to talk to him, that is in a way chic. Otherwise they should have said, ‘That’s why and that’s why we didn’t take it.’ “