Friday, March 18, 2022 at 1:03 PM• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 13:16

Louis van Gaal will be working with a group of 28 the Dutch internationals next week. The national coach of the Dutch national team calls on Jordan Teze (PSV) and Hans Hateboer (Atalanta) as replacements for the injured Stefan de Vrij (Inter Milan) and Jeremie Frimpong (Bayer Leverkusen), who were in the pre-selection. Van Gaal gives on the YouTube channel of Our the Dutch an explanation thereof. “We follow Jordan Teze every week at PSV,” says the national coach.

For Van Gaal, Teze fits the profile of De Vrij. “Because of a certain quality, we think that he has constructive qualities. Because Stefan de Vrij is injured, you have to fill that position.” Hateboer also moves up one place to the final selection. “We not only have a list of internationals, but also a shadow list. Jeremie Frimpong and Hans Hateboer are also on it. We know Hateboer from previous selections, but Frimpong does not. So we preferred to see him, but unfortunately he is got injured. Then we went to Hateboer.”

Van Gaal deliberately selects many players. “Because this is the beginning of the preparation for the World Cup. I want to implement a different system,” said the elector, who will play with three center defenders. “Then you better educate as many players as possible at the same time. I want to see if the players can do it, and then in the way I think they should do it. You see in the world in almost every competition that there are more and more There are teams that play this system, but they don’t all play it the way I would like to do it. We have a whole week for that now.”

The Netherlands will practice against Dememark (March 26) and Germany (March 29) in the coming period. “It is not for nothing that I have postponed the match against Denmark to Saturday so that we can train one more day. It will be a very intensive week for the internationals. I expect our opponents to act at the same level as us, or even higher. Then we know “We also feel that we are under pressure. That is important, because we have actually never experienced that before. Can we play football under it? In a different system, that takes some getting used to for everyone.”