Andries Jonker does not pay much attention to the criticism he receives from Johan Derksen, among others. The television personality has been negative about the national coach of the the Dutch Lionesses several times in recent weeks, but that does not bother the sixty-year-old coach. According to Jonker, the image is also incorrect that he owes everything to Louis van Gaal in his coaching career.
Derksen mentioned Jonker in the program Today Inside include ‘oracle’, ‘buffalo’ and ‘air cyclist’. “That team (Oranje Leeuwinnen, ed.) must have a buffoon, and they now have that buffalo,” said Derksen a month ago, after which he was passionately laughed at by the audience. “I’ve always been surprised about Andries Jonker, because he “I have not seen anything else than talking from his neck. Of course he has already done something with those ladies, but there is no bigger air cyclist than Andries Jonker.”
According to Jonker, who was involved in regional girls’ football for more than seven years earlier in the 1990s, these are Derksen’s preconceived plans. “He has once explained that he has deliberately created a struggle to sell that – as he calls it himself – his newspaper (Voetbal International, ed.). With on the one hand the camp with the former football players: Cruijff, Jansen, Van Hanegem and you name them. And on the other side the Van Gaal, Adriaanse: the gym teachers. I belonged to that,” said Jonker in conversation with The Telegraph.
“I was extra vulnerable, because I had never played professional football. It is often pretended that I owe everything to Louis, but in total I only worked with him for about four years,” continues Jonker. well into his seventies. Next year he has been worrying about one Andries Jonker for 25 years. I find that incredible. But I’ll tell you, I drove home one night and spent an hour breathlessly listening to his radio show. He spoke so warmly and enthusiastically about those artists and the music. What a nice guy, man. For real! Apparently that’s where his real love and passion lies.”