The orange lionesses go to the European Football Championship, but have a difficult assignment. In the group of death they meet Wales, England and France. Is it better if we don’t travel to Switzerland? Chris Werts has his opinion about it.
Chris Woerts in The Oranjezomer About Oranje Leeuwinnen against Finland: “What an abominable level!”
On Friday evening, sports marketer Chris Woerts was a guest at The Oranjezomer. In its familiar place of Today Insideat the bar of course. He was asked what he thought of the level of the Oranje Leeuwinnen.
Woerts started his story with fresh reluctance. “Do I have to say it honestly? Let’s look at the second goal. It seemed like a domino effect. It seemed like dominoes that fell over. It was really an abominable level,” the sports marketer looked back on the swinging match of the Dutch women on Thursday evening against Finland. They eventually won 2-1.
“The orange lionesses are in a heavy group. With, among other things, France, but also England … I think it will be very hard to reach the next round. Actually, this Dutch national team is too weak for the European Championship,” was Woerts’ hard conclusion. Yet he certainly wants to give women’s football a chance. “That just has to develop.”
“I am not an opponent of women’s football,” Woerts clarified. “Only, when you see those goals … earlier this week the Swiss ladies practiced in a closed circle against a team with boys under fifteen. 7-1!” The oracle of VI So it has spoken: it will be a tough job for the Netherlands and national coach Andries Jonker at the European Championship in Switzerland.
