Kenneth Perez warns that the messy start of the preparation towards the European Championship can continue if the start of the tournament does not go as desired for the the Dutch. National coach Frank de Boer claimed at a press conference last week, for example, that Donny van de Beek would have made 4000 minutes this season, when in reality there were 1456. At the same time it became clear that Anwar El Ghazi was told via an app that he had not been given a place in the final selection. Perez is also scathing about the way the European Championship selection was communicated to the outside.
“If you had thought a little bit, you could have concluded that four thousand minutes is a bit much. That is super sloppy ”, Perez starts in the program Football talk from ESPN about De Boer’s mistake with Van de Beek’s playing minutes at Manchester United. The national coach turned out to have looked in the wrong column, so that he confused Van de Beek with Davy Klaassen. The analyst is also not satisfied with the way the dropouts were informed by the national coach. El Ghazi got even thrilled for the program during an interview with Frank Shirt Exchange an app from De Boer, which showed that he had not been selected.
“Do you know how important a European Championship is for a player? What do you get when you lose weight? An app. It’s unfortunate that it just got into the interview. Okay, but you can give us a call, right? If he loses the first match, it continues to go on, ”Perez emphasizes. “But if you win, you won’t hear anything about it. It’s just shoddy. Everything you do as a national coach, players see and is included. Look, the trainer qualities and the football knowledge are at the top. But nowadays a trainer who can perform well or knows what he is talking about is also a plus. This was really bad. ”
“He could have made it easy, because nowadays everything is leaking through social media. Call them all eight in and explain the situation. ‘Blame one person, that’s me. Guys, I’ll keep it short. I think those others are better, ‘you say. Then you’re done ”, Hans Kraay junior responds. Perez also appears not to be a fan of the way the European Championship selection was communicated. The KNVB chose to announce the selection per line, via videos on social media.
“How about that PR department? It was cringing. Cringing! If you do it, do it right. I understand that they see other clubs with slick movies and think: we want that too. This is a European Championship selection, not a game show. Inform the players properly. Indicate in a normal way who is going. It’s not a game show, it seemed like that ”, Perez is clear. “Young people would like to have this, but made up for it. They also laugh at this amateur stuff. They are especially fond of the slick films.
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