Mike Verweij and Valentijn Driessen think that Jasper Cillessen has a good chance of a basic place at the World Cup in Qatar. Remko Pasveer kept goal in the last two international matches, but Cillessen himself is hopeful that national coach Louis van Gaal will eventually choose him. The journalists of The Telegraph are also considering the statement of Rafael van der Vaart, who in Studio Football called a ‘after male’.
“Of course we don’t know what happens in those training camps (of the Dutch, ed.)”, Driessen opens in the Kick-Offpodcast. “They have been in the Dutch national team together, so yes, maybe something has happened there. Of course you can’t really put a finger on that. But often these are of course personal impressions, personal experiences that someone has with someone else.” Van der Vaart also based his opinion on the experiences he had with Cillessen during training camps with the the Dutch.
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The goalkeeper got the wind from the front of the analyst on Sunday.
“I think, but that is really thinking, that Jasper Cillessen has already been promised a basic place during the World Cup”, Verweij adds. “If he just achieves his level. I thought it was very strange that Louis van Gaal, after that match against Belgium (in the Nations League, ed.) downplay was, of ‘pickers’ and ‘rollers’ and balls shot straight at him. Then I thought: I think you’re pre-sorting for a base place for Jasper Cillessen‘. And the conviction with which Jasper Cillessen says that he thinks he is goalkeeping against Senegal (first game at the World Cup, ed.) strengthens me in my opinion that he has already been promised that he will keep goal. Gaal actually chooses Cillessen.
“He has never let him down and it is impossible to say that Jasper Cillessen is not in shape. He once played at a World Cup, so yes, what’s wrong with putting that boy under the bar? Because you happen to Pasveer twice and we all think it’s a great story that he would be under the bar. Of course there is little to nothing to criticize about Jasper Cillessen, maybe just that he is a bad man according to Van der Vaart. “
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