Kelle Roos thinks he has a realistic chance of making it to the Dutch national team. The thirty-year-old goalkeeper from Aberdeen, who is making a great impression in the Scottish league this season, responds to comments from his trainer. He previously stated that he thought Roos was doing so well that a spot in the the Dutch selection could not be far away.
Roos made the switch from Derby County to Aberdeen last summer and has since kept four clean sheets in fifteen games. Roos’s rescue percentage looks fine: with 71.8 percent, he only has to give priority to Joe Hart from Celtic (75 percent). That was reason for Goodwin recently to praise the goalkeeper from Brabant. “If he continues like this and we get European football, Kelle can earn a spot in the selection of the Dutch national team,” said the Irish coach.
The goalkeeper himself understands those statements. “I think he’s right,” Roos says the Press and Journal. “I certainly have the ambition and probably also the qualities to make it to the Dutch national team. I am not a person who runs away from things like that. In any case, it is nice to hear something like that from your trainer. I have not read it myself , but heard it often through others. I also think I’m in good shape.”
Thirty-year-old Roos was trained by PSV, Willem II and NEC and also came to various youth international matches for the the Dutch. However, breaking through in the Netherlands was not for the keeper from Rijkevoort and in 2013 he made the crossing to England. There he ended up at Derby via the small Nuneaton Town, which successively rented him out to Rotherham United, AFC Wimbledon, Bristol Rovers, Port Vale and Plymouth Argyle. During its last four seasons before the Rams Roos, however, played a lot more often and earned a transfer to Aberdeen.