Wesley Sneijder does not agree with a statement that Louis van Gaal made on Monday at the press conference of the Dutch national team. The national coach of the Dutch claimed that exercise physiologist Jos van Dijk flew to Turkey in 2014 to get Sneijder fit for the World Cup. However, according to the record international of the Dutch, this claim is not correct.
Van Gaal announced at the press conference in the run-up to the Nations League matches with Poland (September 22) and Belgium (September 25) that exercise physiologist Jos van Dijk will be tasked with keeping players fit at the World Cup in Qatar. “He also went to Turkey in 2014 to give Sneijder some more exercises to get fit. As a result, Sneijder saved it.”
“We are very grateful to Jos van Dijk for that. Thanks to him I saved it,” Sneijder responded jokingly and somewhat cynically on Monday evening Veronica Offside. He cannot remember meeting Van Dijk in Turkey. “No one has been with me. I have never seen Jos in Turkey. Of course I know Jos, we started working with him, but then I was already with the Dutch.”
Sneijder was temporarily passed by Van Gaal in a period in 2014. “Yes, it triggered something in me. I started working with trainers myself. I got fit myself. I also knew that I had to get fitter. I came from a period at Internazionale. I had problems with the board and with my contract, I didn’t come to play, so I didn’t have a match rhythm,” said Sneijder.
“Then I went to Galatasaray, I got slightly injured and I had to do extra training,” continued Sneijder, who remembered another experience with Van Dijk. “I did work with Jos in preparation for the World Cup in Portugal. . Then we had to train with him at seven in the morning. At one point, as an exercise physiologist, he told Rafael van der Vaart how to take a corner. That is not possible. He indicated how to put down your standing leg. Then the credibility is gone, isn’t it.”