Peter Bosz thinks that Marc Overmars' departure from Ajax could have been prevented. The current coach of PSV and former coach of the Amsterdam team has announced that he does not think the punishment Overmars has received from the KNVB and FIFA is justified.

Bosz was brought to Ajax by Overmars in 2016. The now sixty-year-old trainer spent one season with the group in Amsterdam. Bosz reached the final of the Europa League, after which he left for Borussia Dortmund. Overmars was sidelined by Ajax in February 2022 due to inappropriate behavior against female staff.

In an interview with the magazine HEROES Bosz discusses the forced departure of Overmars from Ajax. “Marc is a friend of mine. What he did is wrong. I told him that he behaved like an asshole,” says the current PSV coach.

Nevertheless, Bosz believes that Ajax could have prevented Overmars' departure. “If I were Ajax, I would have done it differently. I immediately suspended him, started an investigation and then drew conclusions. I think the situation at The Voice Of Holland played a role in how all this happened. But unfortunately it cannot be reversed.”

In Bosz's eyes, Overmars has been 'in the pillory'. “The price he and his family have paid is high. And again, he really was an asshole himself. But I don't think the additional punishment he has now received from the KNVB and FIFA is justified,” Bosz concludes.

At the beginning of January, Overmars had to resign from his duties as technical director of Royal Antwerp with immediate effect. The former striker was already suspended in the Netherlands at that time, but the suspension came into effect worldwide – and therefore also in Belgium – when FIFA took over the punishment.

The Sports Jurisprudence Institute (ISR) had imposed a two-year suspension on Overmars on November 16, of which one year was conditional. Overmars is not allowed to perform his position as technical director at Antwerp football club after the suspension was taken over by FIFA.

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