Thijs Dallinga believes that Branco van den Boomen has earned a call-up for the Dutch national team. The Toulouse midfielder is having an excellent season with six goals and ten assists. Dallinga, teammate of Van den Boomen in the French Ligue 1, is surprised that national coach Ronald Koeman has passed the midfielder. He himself hopes to be able to pull the the Dutch shirt over his shoulders in the future.
The call for a selection by Van den Boomen has been heard in the Netherlands for some time. The Toulouse midfielder scored 12 goals and 23 assists in 42 official matches last season. The club from the south of France was still playing at the second level at the time, but Van den Boomen also proved to be of great value at the highest level. This season, the counter stands at six assists and ten goals. Dallinga is therefore surprised that Koeman has not reserved a place in the final selection.
“If the moment should have come once, it would have been deserved now,” says the striker in the podcast The first one. “I often see lists about the top five competitions in which he is at the top. So I was quite surprised that he was not included. But well, in the end you don’t know what the national coach is looking at. Maybe France is not in the package sits,” laughs Dallinga. He himself did not speak to Koeman yet. “It would be great of course, it is a dream for every footballer. It’s no different for me.”
According to Dallinga, there is a clear difference between the French and the Dutch competition. “I think the biggest difference is in the physical violence,” says the striker. “Compared to the Netherlands, it is really a few steps up physically. They’re really good athletes, so that makes it hard. How I experience it is tactically maybe a little less compared to other top competitions. But there is so much compensation with the physical part that it is just very difficult.”
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