Kenneth Perez has reacted with great surprise to a fragment from the first episode of the documentary series about Feyenoord that can be seen on Disney +. In the fragment, general manager Mark Koevermans asks youth trainers in vain what the vision of Feyenoord is. None of them then answer. “Great that they didn’t cut it out. They show everything, even this kind of painful moments,” said Perez.
The scene was shown in the program on Sunday morning Good morning the Dutch. Koevermans asks the youth trainers to explain Feyenoord’s ‘football vision’ ‘in three sentences, for example. What does Feyenoord stand for? There is dead silence. “Anyone who has ever downplayed Feyenoord’s problem, or has not understood it, only has to look at these two icy minutes,” Sjoerd Mossou wrote in his column for the newspaper on Saturday. General Newspaper. “The intimate dressing room scenes, the emotions of the supporters, the struggles of Dick Advocaat: they can all not match this one fragment of two minutes. Here the tragedy of Feyenoord is captured unparalleled.”
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“That the head of the youth academy doesn’t just stand up and say: Koevermans, this is our football vision. Wow!”, Perez responds to the program of ESPN. “The painful thing is that there is a silence at first. And that Koevermans then asks: is it conquer the ball in five seconds? Is it offensive? He gave them every option to say something. There is of course a lot of criticism of Feyenoord’s youth academy. When I see this, it confirms the image that the people who walk there will have some football knowledge, but that they do not have a common vision. Wow. I’m going to watch this, by the way.”
“The fact that that question has to be asked by the general manager, of course, says something,” said Mossou, who was also present in the program on Sunday. “I don’t know,” Perez replied. “Of course, that could be the purpose of a meeting. That they think: we are going to put something on paper, what is our football vision? Then you expect that the head of the youth academy will stand up and that a discussion will start.”