Aad de Mos is not in favor of a foreign national coach for the Dutch national team. The retired coach emphasizes in conversation with The Telegraph that the Dutch trainer training can be counted as one of the best in the world and therefore believes that the KNVB would be completely embarrassed if they came up with a foreign trainer. De Mos has ‘ten times prefer’ Henk ten Cate as national coach than a foreigner.
“Our football association has one of the most expensive training courses in the world and explains that by stating that it is a high-quality course, perhaps the best worldwide. And then you can’t find a self-trained trainer? Cuckoo!” says De Mos. The analyst warns that foreign trainers such as Joachim Löw and Roberto Martínez also use a different system, so that ‘the same problem as under Frank de Boer’ awaits and his departure in that case will not solve anything.
“The new national coach must be someone who has made flying hours at home and abroad as a trainer, who therefore has a helicopter view and is very keen on improving the 4-3-3 system in all kinds of variants,” De Mos describes the profile. of a new head coach. He heard in Ibiza that the name of the duo Ten Cate and Ruud Gullit is singing around, a choice he could live with. “It is a law in football that after a democratic coach you have to appoint an authoritarian coach. Frank loved the dialogue. Now let someone take the brunt of it.”
De Mos does not agree with the criticism that Ten Cate has only been active in the Middle East in recent years. The 66-year-old coach – in the past worked for Vitesse, Ajax, Barcelona and Chelsea, among others – first settled in the United Arab Emirates with Al-Ahli in 2010, and in the following years was at the helm of successively Umm- Salal (Qatar), Shandong Luneng (China), Sparta Rotterdam, Al-Jazira, Al-Wahda (both United Arab Emirates), Al-Ittihad (Saudi Arabia) and again Al-Wahda. He is still active at the latter club.
“As if his luggage at Ajax, FC Barcelona and Chelsea has been lost at once,” De Mos responds. Henk follows international football closely. And if you reach the semi-finals of the World Cup for club teams with a club from the United Arab Emirates, Al-Jazira, and are at 0-0 against Real Madrid until ten minutes before the end, you are not a baker. It seems that some are doing everything to prevent Ten Cate from becoming national coach. But ten times rather Ten Cate than a foreigner who further squanders the Dutch School.”