Frank de Boer is the intended new national coach of the Dutch national team. According to The Telegraph the KNVB and the currently clubless trainer have broadly agreed on a collaboration. Frank Rijkaard, who was recently polled by the football association for the position of national coach, thinks that De Boer has the qualities to succeed at Orange.

Rijkaard was also the national coach of the Dutch national team between 1998 and 2000. However, a return was not an option. “I have not had the urge to become national coach again”, he told Wednesday in conversation with Broadcaster West. Rijkaard does not want to say too much about the recent contact with the KNVB leadership. “It doesn’t matter. I think you should now focus on what is to come and hope that the person who is going to do it will again have great successes with the Orange.”

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The reporter of the regional broadcaster immediately mentions De Boer’s name and his appointment has received Rijkaard’s approval. “He knows very well what is required and expected of Dutch football. He is a child of it, say. He has also achieved very good results here in the Netherlands. So I think it could turn out very well. we hope so. ” De Boer will most likely sign a two-year contract with the KNVB.

Rijkaard has sufficient confidence in the future of Orange, regardless of which national coach will be appointed. “Of course there is confidence. We have a great generation, so why not? But in football it has never been played before. You always have to show it again”, said the former coach of the Dutch national team, Barcelona and Sparta, among others. Rotterdam.