Noni Madueke was interviewed last week with the PSV Supporter confronted with the fact that he can play for the Dutch if he lives in the Netherlands for five years. The enthusiastic response was for ESPN-reporter Leo Oldenburger reason to ask the eighteen-year-old attacker after the game between Fortuna Sittard and PSV (1-3) about the Dutch national team. Kenneth Perez and Ronald de Boer do not understand these questions to Madueke.
“International matches and a national team, that choice is for later. At the moment I focus on PSV. Of course I admire the Dutch national team, it is a top team. Who knows what will happen in the future, but now I first want to get fully fit again ”, Madueke replies in front of the camera of ESPN. He is then presented with what he thinks about if he would already be selected for the Dutch. That is not possible, because Madueke has only lived in the Netherlands for two and a half years, after he exchanged Tottenham Hotspur for PSV in the summer of 2018.
“We’ll see, no idea. I do not know. Of course I would be proud if they found me a player for the future. But I have no idea. Maybe in the future, it would be nice. If I stay here for another two and a half years I can be selected, but Nigeria or England can also. I have to make that choice later ”, the attacker indicates. Madueke – who was born in England and has Nigerian roots – returned to PSV on Sunday after being injured for weeks and scored a goal in Limburg as a substitute.
“Here the eighteen-year-old was the sensible one. What kind of question is this? ”, Perez responds after seeing the interview with Madueke. “He is not going to burn down the Dutch national team. He gives a neat answer, but what kind of question is this? ”, De Boer continues in the program This was the Weekend from ESPN. Madueke has played in the past for the Under-16, Under-17 and Under-18 of England.
“We are not only asking eighteen-year-old Dutchmen, but also eighteen-year-old Englishmen if they want to play for the Dutch,” Perez says, somewhat surprised. “Why are we doing this? We are praising all those young players from here to Tokyo. Now we are talking about the Dutch for an eighteen-year-old Englishman. ”