In an interview in De Volkskrant Wim Kieft has been presented with seven dilemmas. In one, he was asked to choose between Studio Football in Today Inside.
“Today Inside,” Wim answers, “because I owe a lot to those people. I was there a lot when it was still purely about football Football Inside was called. Even when things were going badly for me, they continued to invite me. I had an alcohol and drug addiction, problems, debts. The book in which I talk about it (Kieft, red.) is often held up there. It sold well, which is partly why I got out of debt.”
Wim enjoyed his time at the table with Johan Derksen, Wilfred Genee and René van der Gijp, he says: “It was always a treat to sit at the table with three lunatics. It could go in any direction. Johan Derksen wanted to take a different path, away from football. He thought it would work and he was right. I didn’t fit in. I suddenly had to find something about Ukraine. Or about certain politicians.”
“I’m getting a bit tired of people who explain everything, but are not the expert,” Wim continues. “Then of course you can turn it into entertainment like Today Inside does, but I’m not very good at that either. I don’t look at it often anymore, because I kind of know what’s coming.”
Over Studio Footballwhere he now regularly joins, Wim says: “That is a nice new challenge. After Hans Kraay senior, I was one of the first to do analyzes at the NOS. Thirty years later I am back.” He concludes with a laugh: “It was announced after one of my first broadcasts Studio Football ends next summer. Then the Wim Kieft effect didn’t really work.”
Job Knoester recently told Today Inside about a prisoner who owes a lot to Wim Kieft: “I think it’s really special.” Watch it in the video at the top of this page.
