The KNVB has also approached Antonio Conte to become the new national coach of the Dutch national team, Maurizio Pistocchi assures. According to the Italian sports journalist, who has more than 150,000 followers on Twitter, the Dutch football association knocked on the Italian’s door to ask about his possible interest as national coach of the Dutch, but they were told in Zeist that he would rather work as a club trainer again. goes. The 51-year-old Conte was national coach of Italy between 2014 and 2016 and has been without an employer since the end of May.
After the debacle of the Dutch national team at the European Championship and the dismissal of Frank de Boer, many trainers were put forward as a possible new national coach. Conte’s name also fell. He became champion with Internazionale last season, but cleared the field after a disagreement with the club’s management i Nerazzurri. However, some analysts immediately saw Conte’s arrival as a utopia, partly because De Boer earned ‘only’ 1.2 million euros gross per year.
?? la Federazione Olandese ha sondato Antonio Conte per la guida della Nazionale the Dutch ma il tecnico preferisce aspettare una squadra di club ?? pic.twitter.com/UN6VpJCYr5
— Maurizio Pistocchi (@pisto_gol) July 20, 2021
“Josep Guardiola, who earns thirteen million euros net at Manchester City, at De Boer it was 1.2 million gross. Well, count out. Conte was also mentioned: he found eight million euros net less at Tottenham Hotspur,” journalist Mike Verweij referred to the failed talks between the Italian and the Londoners. “I saw Arsene Wenger pass by: he has an advisory role at FIFA, 2.5 million euros net. And Joachim Löw earns four million euros net at the German Football Association. I don’t know if everyone who plays football themselves wants to pay three times the contribution… of course it’s just not possible.”
Valentijn Driessen added that the the Dutch is not very appealing for foreign coaches anyway. “We all love the Dutch national team, of course, it’s the signboard”, said the football chief of The Telegraph On . “Of course it is for us too, but those foreigners look at it differently. Zinedine Zidane is really not impressed by Nico-Jan Hoogma (director of top football of the KNVB, ed.), who could report.”
It is Louis van Gaal who will soon almost certainly start his third term as national coach of the Dutch national team. Van Gaal was previously national coach between 2000 and 2002, a period that ended with missing the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Ten years later, he got a second chance as successor to Bert van Marwijk and surprisingly led the the Dutch to third place at the World Cup in Brazil. It would be Van Gaal’s first managerial job since his dismissal from Manchester United in May 2016.