Destructive media after exit; Van de Looi and ‘big names’ have to suffer
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 10:50 am
The morning newspapers are very critical of the Dutch Juniors and national coach Erwin van de Looi on Wednesday. The promises of the Netherlands played a draw in and against Georgia on Tuesday evening (1-1), making the group stage the final station at the European Championship. Van de Looi and ‘the big names’ have to pay for it in the media. “All those big names, from Kenneth Taylor to Ryan Gravenberch and Micky van de Ven; they turned out to be mainly big names on paper, with much smaller deeds, sent by a national coach who did not understand that it is about goals,” said Willem Vissers in the Volkskrant.
De Telegraaf calls the way in which the Dutch Juniors ‘tried to win without enthusiasm’ in the second half, a ‘disgrace to Dutch football’. Mike Verweij is also critical of Van de Looi. “Incidentally, after the zeperd in the South Caucasus, he unconsciously showed his true nature. Characteristic of his participating-is-more-important-than-winning mentality is the fact that he himself looks back on his period in Zeist with a good feeling. have gone to the European Championships twice and have indicated a positive swing again, “he said in front of the NOS camera after the disgrace in Tbilisi.”
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“In 2021 he reached the semi-finals of the European Under 21 Championship, but this edition was with three draws and two goals,” Verweij continues. “The coach himself had a large share in this, because setting up Jurgen Ekkelenkamp as a right winger turned out completely wrong. Just like the composition of his midfield against Georgia, which is one place lower than Uzbekistan in the FIFA ranking and China is just ahead of keeps.” Michael Reiziger, who succeeds Van de Looi as national coach at the Dutch Juniors, ‘will have to sweep up the shards as the new coach at the Dutch Juniors’. “Van de Looi’s search for a great new club is not getting any easier after this failed European Championship,” said Verweij.
Vissers is also very critical on behalf of de Volkskrant. “Young Orange was eliminated after the group stage and that can be regarded as the prototype of the failure.” The journalist saw how Van de Looi’s team only started to attack ‘en masse’ in the final phase. “That happened without too much consultation. Bart Verbruggen, pulled forward, actually blocked a shot from teammate Crysencio Summerville.” Vissers uses four words to sum up the evening in Georgia. “Haughty football. Predictable. Silly. All those big names, from Taylor to Gravenberch and Van de Ven; they turned out to be mainly big names on paper, with much smaller deeds, sent by a national coach who did not understand that it is about goals. Three equal Scored twice. It’s the grape harvest after a year without rain,” Vissers concludes.
Johan Inan of the Algemeen Dagblad speaks of ‘a great disguise’. “The self-confidence with which the Dutch Juniors arrived in Tbilisi mainly turned out to be overestimated. The two previous draws against Belgium (0-0) and Portugal (1-1) were no warm-ups for a successful group final in which things had to be put in order. harbingers for a major fiasco in a stadium of Dinamo Tbilisi, which was packed with almost 45,000 spectators. The Dutch Juniors once again had the ball a lot, but it turned out to be a hell of a task to get it into the goal. “
