Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 12:45 PM• Rian Rosendaal

Rick Karsdorp is working on a very strong season at AS Roma, which has already rewarded the fullback / midfielder with a new multi-year contract. Due to the good performances, the former Feyenoord player is also associated with a return to the Dutch national team. Marten de Roon, among others, thinks that Karsdorp should qualify for the final European Championship selection of the Dutch.

“Rick has had two difficult years, even seemed written off, but you see what can happen if you suddenly start playing”, De Roon, who is also active in Serie A, concludes in an interview with Football International. “And he will only get better. In the beginning he played sixty, seventy minutes; nowadays whole games. He looks good and fit.” Due to a suspension, Karsdorp is missing on Thursday evening against Ajax in the quarter finals of the Europa League. “But then everyone can see it for themselves. If he continues like this, I just think that he is a candidate for the Dutch. I think that cannot be otherwise if you have been a basic player at AS Roma for a year,” said the midfielder of Atalanta.

Fred Rutten, who made Karsdorp debut at Feyenoord in 2014, is also full of praise for the development of the 26-year-old winger. “You could see that he had qualities at the time. Now he plays at a club that uses a system in which he excels. Rick is now 26, in fact his best years are yet to come”, the clubless coach looks expectantly. to the future. “I like to see him play like that and I wish that boy. Types like Rick are not ideal sons-in-law and at the same time not unmanageable. They are boys you have to understand. If you can, they give a lot. I am. I am curious about Ajax later “, Rutten refers to the second meeting with Roma on Thursday 15 April.

Karsdorp made his debut in the fall of 2016 in the Dutch, under then national coach Danny Blind. After the baptism of fire against Belarus, performances against France and Bulgaria followed. After the ignominious 2-0 defeat against the Bulgarians in March 2017, as a result of which Blind was sent away by the KNVB, Karsdorp was no longer invited to the Dutch national team. National coach Frank de Boer chose Denzel Dumfries and Kenny Tete for the right back position in the last international period.