The announcement of the European Championship selection of the Dutch national team went far from smooth sailing on Wednesday. For example, national coach Frank de Boer made a mistake in the number of minutes that Donny van de Beek would have played at Manchester United and Anwar el Ghazi and Jeremiah St. Juste were respectively told via an app and a journalist that they were not in the selection of 26 players. sat. The national coach stated that he had all canceled the dropouts neatly. “That is not good, of course, but it is also not a mortal sin”, Ronald de Boer defends his brother somewhat in the Friday edition of the Algemeen Dagblad.
Nevertheless, it was surprising, especially at the last press conference before a major final tournament. Business observer Guido Albers emphasizes that his client and good friend Frank de Boer is anything but casual. “As a coach, he is razor-sharp and passionate about the field. At most you can say that he needs good people out there, who help him with the things that he naturally has less, ”the advocate told the newspaper. “Can you remember that he once had these kinds of things at Ajax? That’s just what I mean. ”
In addition, Albers believes that the KNVB put De Boer in a difficult situation by announcing the selection through #UnlockTheWave. “Frank will never be difficult about that, he conforms to the people who have studied before. But he should have said: nice all that #UnlockTheWave, but first of all it’s about football. If Frank had just put together his team and then announced it, it would never have had such a meaning. ”
Albers also states that top players do not always have to receive a phone call to unsubscribe. “Top sport is sometimes just hard, isn’t it? You don’t have to explain everything, certainly not to players who have never actually been part of the team. ” Valentijn Driessen, however, states that Frank de Boer has learned little in terms of communication and empathy from his failed adventures outside the Dutch borders. “What is the trouble of informing eight players with a call that they are dropping out for the European Championship instead of sending an app or even not letting you hear from you?”
“Those two should consider the pre-selection as motivation, but it is the biggest sporting damper in their career”, assures the football chief of The Telegraph in his column in the newspaper. “No one at the large KNVB, with its enormous media department, who briefly guides De Boer with internal communication. Everyone was certainly editing the videos with which the European Championship selection was presented on the social media channels of the association. ” De Boer argued that Van de Beek had played 4000 minutes and therefore belonged to the European Championship selection, while the midfielder had actually played 1,456 minutes of play. “Looked wrong at the list. Sloppy is an understatement. Certainly if a selection is partly based on that”, the journalist says.
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