Rafael van der Vaart expressed his incomprehension about the whistling of Steven Berghuis in De Kuip immediately after the end of the Netherlands – Gibraltar (6-0) and goes into it. The Telegraph in more depth. After the big win, Louis van Gaal let it be known that he believes that no attention should be paid to the the Dutch fans who whistled the player who left Feyenoord for Ajax. According to Van Gaal, a statement from the Dutch national team was not necessary.
At the press conference Valentijn Driessen asked Van Gaal why Berghuis is not more supported to the outside world instead of downplaying the flute concerts more or less by saying that it ‘only concerned a few people’: “As a response to the people who whistle him while we are at a match of the Dutch national team.” The chief of football of The Telegraph also point out that next month’s important reunion with Norway is also in De Kuip. Van Gaal: “You’re absolutely right about that, it’s a bit weird. I also expect there to be a different audience. But that’s also why I said there weren’t that many.”
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“You shouldn’t pay so much attention to that. But you are now the second journalist to ask this question and you will also be writing about it tomorrow. So it gets attention and I don’t think it deserves that attention.” Driessen: “You can still respond to that. It has everyone’s attention. Everyone is talking about it.” Van Gaal disagreed. “No, you’re talking about it. And you encourage people to think about it,” the national coach assured. Driessen then asked the man whether the attacker should not be supported with a statement. Van Gaal: “No.”
“The national coach can say that we should not pay attention to that, but I do,” said Van der Vaart in the newspaper. “This is our own player. By ‘our’ I mean our player from the Netherlands. He is not there as an Ajax player but as an the Dutch international who gives everything and plays football for his country. Everyone wants us to qualify as a football nation for the World Cup in Qatar next month, right? Now it will come down to the very last and most important match against the Norwegians in Rotterdam and we desperately need the qualities of Berghuis. We have to win, but are we going to whistle him?”
Rafael van der Vaart disappointed by the Dutch supporters: ‘This is not right’
Rafael van der Vaart was annoyed by the supporters who whistled Steven Berghuis on Monday evening.
“I really can’t reach it. The whole club feeling has to give way when the Netherlands plays. As a player for Ajax and later as an ex-player for Ajax, I played a lot of international matches in De Kuip, but I was never whistled. I have always enjoyed playing there because it is fantastic to play football there with the the Dutch squad,” said Van der Vaart, who does not expect Berghuis to be badly shaken by the audience. However, the former football player does not think that the Ajax player has started playing better because of it. “I experienced it once in the FC Utrecht stadium when we played there with the the Dutch squad. Whistling it hurt me as an international.”
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