Bee Good morning Eredivisie has reacted with bewilderment to the fact that Jasper Cillessen is not going to the World Cup with the the Dutch. The NEC goalkeeper was not selected by national coach Louis van Gaal and sees Remko Pasveer, Andries Noppert and Justin Bijlow travel to Qatar. Mario Been, Keje Molenaar, Hans Kraay junior and Eloy Room, all table guests on duty at the talk show, do not understand the choice to let Cillessen lose weight.
“If you look at the three goalkeepers who have now been selected, they have played eight international matches together and they have never been to a major tournament,” Been explains the situation. “Then I, as a coach, would look at Cillessen, who has played a major tournament. I would look for the real reason. That reason is not that he is not in shape, because the other keepers are not either. He would be difficult to deal with a reserve role, as proved in 2014. If that is the reason, then say so. There can be no sporting arguments.”
Molenaar also finds Van Gaal’s choice indefensible. “If that were the case, because it can’t be anything else, aren’t you the manager as Van Gaal? Then you make sure that you instruct the keepers in such a way that it is clear and you manage that. That is also part of it. “You can’t leave a boy in the Netherlands, can you? That doesn’t exist! He’s just the number one sportingly. I think he’s further than Bijlow.” In addition to Cillessen, Mark Flek also got a bad news conversation with Van Gaal. The national coach personally talked to all dropouts via FaceTime on Friday morning.
Eloy Room, who defended the goal of Vitesse, Go Ahead Eagles and PSV in the Netherlands, would always have taken Cillessen with him. “If you just look at tournament experience. He has always performed for the Dutch national team. He is a good goalkeeper, he does well at NEC. Justin Bijlow also has the potential. Remko Pasveer has also had good periods, but now has maybe a lesser phase. If you look purely at the statistics, you can’t actually leave Cillessen at home, not even if you look at experience. Cillessen has played more than sixty international matches (63, ed.).”
Hans Kraay does not believe that Cillessen would be bad in the group with a possible reserve role. “Cillessen and Bijlow are potentially the best keepers in the Netherlands, so you always take them with you. It is said of Cillessen that he would not be pleasant or cannot deal with disappointment. But do you really think that he would ruin the atmosphere “Of course not man. And Flek was suddenly brought to the Dutch by Frans Hoek. That was a Van Gaal keeper. Now he is playing very well at Freiburg and he is no longer there.” Molenaar decides that he finds it ‘mysterious’ regarding the goalkeeper selection.