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Dijkshoorn: Van Vossen can suffer, Huntelaar can’t…
Comments(32)I keep translating Bert Dijkshoorn’s pieces. I love them 
It’s weird. Men who work in factories and have to sort apples all day… Put them in the right color box. I don’t care, really. Or girls at the supermarket, sitting on their knees to fill up the shelves with new types of chips. And then being told of by the supervisor for putting the paprika in the regular shelf. Whatever. I couldn’t care less. But Klaas Jan Huntelaar at AC Milan… I suffer for him.
Which is weird. I grew up in a lower class family. We could live for a whole year on what Klaas Jan uses every month on new shoes. It’s such a cliche. Whenever a coach wants to motivate his players while they’re listening to their new iPod he starts talking about the past.
They should be ashamed of themselves. The customers, the fans, the supporters…they don’t buy meat on Monday and drink self-brewed grog so that they can buy tickets for the game. These players, they get paid for playing football! It can’t get any better. And more of those sorts of motivational speeches…
Lots of coaches think like that. As a player, you need to be grateful and remind yourself you’re a chosen one. Compared to actual working class men, you’re a whimp. Huub Stevens did the season’s prep in the coal mines with his players. His players needed to make triangles with those lamps on their heads. If you don’t know what death and loss means, you are a spoiled brat, according to Tough Huub.
You should thank God on your bare knees if you can make a living with playing football. You can’t even call it work.
I never got that. I’d rather work in a factory putting socks in their packaging for six days than working in football, a sector that’s still in the dark ages in terms of work ethos and hierarchy. You have to call the coach “trainer” in Holland. Or Mister in other countries. I wouldn’t be able to. Can you imagine a knob like Robert Maaskant as your coach? And having to call him “trainer” or “sir”?
Or Ton Du Chatinier. You’d expect him to be the assistant manager in a building materials warehouse. You’d hit him on the head with a piece of plywood and say: “How was your weekend, egg?”.
And that’s why those pep talks of coaches don’t work. It’s horrible to be a professional football player. Okay, you are on the grass, outside but you need to listen to incompetent blokes like Andries Jonker. There you are, best job in the world, but taking directions from a guy you’d normally chuck in some river.
But I do sympathize with Klaas Jan. Don’t know how. He doesn’t play a lot at Milan and if he does, he doesn’t score. Normally, I wouldn’t care. I’ve always enjoyed watching players like Peter van Vossen and Rinus Israel suffer. They were good at it.
Van Vossen, lonely in Turkey, dreamming of a Zeeuws bread roll. I could only laugh. Or Israel in a hotel room in Romania, with a phone bill of 23.000 euros because he wanted to hear his wife talk about the last stew she made for the grandchildren. Sorry, I could only laugh. But with Klaas Jan, it’s different. I feel for him.
It’s because Klaas Jan is too good for football. He is. Klaas Jan is a nature freak. He loves fishing. And he can sit in the players bus and suddenly call out: “Look, a wren!”. Because Klaas Jan is a bird watcher too. The actual birds. He doesn’t have any tattoos. He is a sweet boy. He reads.
You really want Klaas Jan to be happy. Whenever he’s interviewed his face betrays him. He’s bored. He hates the football world he’s part of. But yes, Klaas Jan does call his trainer “trainer”. But he doesn’t mean it. He can’t be subservient.
Klaas Jan is the real deal. Genuine. A smart lad who is a football player against his will. He’s even more normal than Foppe de Haan.
Huntelaar is intelligent and an intellectual. Like Frank Rijkaard was. They’re untouchables who will do what ever it is they want to do. Klaas Jan wants to play football and then go home to look through a bird encyclopedia with his wife. Because that is the best job in the world….
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dutch team of the week
——–stekelenburg———-
v.d.wiel-vlaar-brouwers-pieters
——de zeeuw-de jong——–
kuijt—-seedorf—-emanuelson
———–lens————-
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United States
@MO
also Drenthe maybe at LB or instead of Kuijt
Posted from United States
drenthe is definitely not a left back. he’s on the left side but marcelo plays behind him. he’s an attacking midfielder and this is the main reason i wouldn’t select him: he’s good in attacking althoug his crosses are often bad. on the other hand his not good at all in defending. dynamism is his most important weapon. a left back should know to defend. this is his first job,attacking comes after. i would say emmanuelson is not a left back neither,but he’s better in defensive duties than drenthe who played a very good game yesterday.
Posted from 
Hungary
Vurnon Anita did well as LB.
Posted from 
Netherlands
Agree with ferenc. Drenthe is not a left back he is a creative player and I actually believe Bert could give him a try I mean if Babel and Huntelaar are called he might as well call Drenthe he trains with the very best every week and is playing some minutes!!
@ferenc buddy Zeadorf would have played well.At the same time BVM has catract in his both eyes.No matter how good he is.Its FOR “VANBOMMEL”.
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India
Demy de Zeeuw was the best player on the weekend. He is really in between a Sneijder and a de Jong (not just hairstyle or lack of therin) …..may yet shine for us ?
Posted from 
Singapore
Carlos brother thats why i hate BVM.Bommel is too far away from desaaw and emmanuelson at that post.
Posted from India
——Vanpersie———–
Roban—-Znijder—-Elia
—-Desaaw-Dejong———
Tyndally/Bauma-Mathijenson-Vlaar-weil/Zuiverloon
——Steke———–
Who is going to stop us Brazil?spain? nahhhhhhhhhh no hope for them.with this line up.
Posted from India
Tiju, I actually think Van Bommel and Seedorf play different positions.
Seedorf should play on Sneijder’s position and I can imagine that Bert opts for Wesley over Clarence. For starters: Clarence has a tainted relationship with Oranje, hasn’t impressed in the orange jersey and is on his way to winter in his career. Where as Sneijder has delivered – is actually at the top of the hierarchy with Robin – and Sneijder isn’t even in his best days!
So, I fully support Bert in his decisions here, although I do respect Clarence a lot!!!
De Zeeuw has really improved under Jol and that’s because he’s given freedom at Ajax, whereas at AZ – under Van Gaal – he was in a straightjacket.
Still, De Zeeuw shines as the playmaker at Ajax not as holding midfielder (I think).
Van Bommel has proven himself manty times for many seasons at many clubs and in Oranje. De Zeeuw might replace Van Bommel after the WC. I’m sure Mark will retire once we won the title
@Tiju:
You don´t like Van Bommel but you are not being objective about him my friend. He has won titles in Holland, Spain, Germany and everywhere he has gone. He even has a Champions League in his CV. He is a player with balls, something Holland needs to win the WC. Without that you just have talent but sometimes other things are needed.
“I’m sure Mark will retire once we won the title “. ha ha i hope for that.
i know mark and seadorf play in different postions but with a swaping of znijder and seadorf it is possible.i mean give or consider znijder or de saaw as a FREE HOLDING MID instead of free man.give more diffencive works to dejong like Yaya in barca and consider desaaw or Znijder in xavi positon,it will do miracle.if we consider znijder in to xavi position then seadorf has a chance.
Agree on Clarence.I just said that symbolic..By keeping emmanuelson,castelen in my mind.(Not for seadorf)
Posted from India
@mario Znijder,Persie,stekelen has that man…..so why so many leaders?
Posted from India
I liked Vanbommel and seadorf till 2006.In 2006 we desperately needed both of them,we didnt use them properly and we failed.
Now we dont need any of them but we are gonig to use MVB.personally i think zeadorf can help us more than bommel.
Posted from India
good english
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China
Better than his Dutch !! and thats why this blog exists ! It’s not an English Grammatical correct syntax forum in case you didn’t notice !
Posted from Singapore
Tiju bro your arguments are becoming boring !! Come on man I used to love reading your analysis but lately (well last few months its the same stories) Come on man come up with some new theories. Its always out with Bommel Kuyt and Ooiger but it wont happen mate !
Ask Sachin to support Holland, wear Orange at this next press conference and we’ll have 1 billion Indian supporters backing Holland !! Now there’s a new angle ! (for those not into Cricket – Sachin Tendulkar is the absolute God in India)
Posted from Singapore
Carlos bro i dont want to make you bore…but i am stucked with that coz bert is doing 80% right.i cannt see any other thing wrong from Bert.In my personal opinion the distance between the cup and ours is just four or five players, apart from that bert is donig fine.i dont have nothing so say.
But its annoying…wat to do as an orange fan i bound to carry that.
@cricket @sachin
This country is mad about this stupid game,its morethan annoying,lots of peoples started hating cricket.
When i was a 15 year boy i played with the 20 years old guys.I got name from my bowling i got the nick name -(Vasim akram)but with a height of 1.70m you cant do anything in top flight cricket.but till my 19th birthday i continued that.i hate cricket like anything just beacause of senseless of this game.No matter how good you are the pitch will decide everything.So i left cricket for ever.
@About god.
I dont consider sachin as god.I am not supposed to do that beacuse GOD is GOD,Who is sachin?The most genius batsman..thats the answer for that.Saying sachin is god itself a sin,do do that brother…God will never give his glory to anybody….
Our gentlemanism is too small in front of him.
i Will try to comment something new..
Posted from India
oranje need van bommel;mark and de jong are the perfect holding pair. i see no reason why bvm should drop him. i know that bvm opted for sneijder over clarence and accept his decision but still consider clarence is the better player and it’s a luxury to leave him out from the squad. sneijder is capacle of playing fantastic games has no consistancy. or he plays a very good game and he’s injured for the next. he’s good when the whole team play well,but is not capable of doing something when everything goes wrong (like the russia game last year). van bommel is capable of doing this. clarence too. anyway,i don’t say that clarence should be in the starting eleven but now he’s much more useful than for ex. vdv. clarence is an essential part of one of europe’s best sides,i follow every milan game (because of him and am always in extase when he’s playing well),raf is a benchwarmer havig 5-10 minutes each second game. i know that seedorf wasn’t brilliant for oranje but think saying that he was always bad is exagerated.
what’s going on with ruud: read that he was injured and spent his time in the gym with guti. i guess it’s a minor injury. does anyone know what is it?
off topic: Carlos bro,i checked out your website last night
Posted from Hungary
Just to say guys I watch hamburg lose 1-0 to Bochum last night. Very unimpressed with mathijissen. He always seems to be on verge if having a clumsy momment (he was fully at fault for the goal!). Here is one orange player who I have never liked and I don’t feel he has the talent to have accumlated 40 plus caps for the orange. It’s interesting to note that the pre tournament world soccer magazine issues have always noted on his poor build up play and defensive errors. The rest some could be better and some could be replaced by better options bit largely used in right way they can all do a decent. Mathijissen however he only gets away with it as we play 2 DM’s.
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United Kingdom
Mathijssen also scored a clean goal from a corner. Something I’ve been missing from our Oranje guys lately and we could really use defenders that can score from Sneijder/vPersie free-kicks and corners just like Maicon, Lucio, Gallas and Vermaelen do at Inter and Arsenal to finish those Sneijder/vPersie assists.
How many corners did we have against Paraguay again? Was there anything on target coming from those? It isn’t the first game where we failed to capitalize on corners and free-kicks because there was no one to finish them off. If we get more than 10 corners in a game we should at least be able to cenvert one to a goal. Just look at Brazil and their corner,free-kick/goal conversion ratio. A lot more dangerous.
Posted from Netherlands
Carlos said:
“Demy de Zeeuw was the best player on the weekend. He is really in between a Sneijder and a de Jong (not just hairstyle or lack of therin) …..may yet shine for us ?”
well de Zeeuw certainly has one of the shiniest heads in football if that’s what you mean…
Posted from 
Canada
V.Bommel-De Jong works for us, but still their both right-footed and in a way it slows down play on midfield, might also be why our defence seemed to have most possesion in the last friendlies. One left-footed player, or a slight adjustment may change things. However that’s more likely for after the WC, if V.Bommel quits or falls out of the selection, De Jong might move back as a single vaccume player before defence with 5 creative player in front of him.
About Mathijsen, in our system/playing style, he’s the most reliable available, not taking Heitinga etc. in account. But when better, consistent CB’s come around and perform, like Vlaar, Bruma, I don’t think he’ll be kept in the squad at every cost. In fact, if Bruma keeps developing at this rate, and gets to first team playing time, at Chelsea or on loan, I expect him to take over Mathijsen’s spot pretty soon.
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