It’s funny that Adriaanse as a very tough defender always plays creative and attractive football as a coach. Or that Hiddink, a lazy but very talented midfielder, uses discipline as a major tool… Sometimes coaches are totally different when as coach then they were as players. Van Basten the player loathed mediocre players. He is known to have scolded at Cruyff when he let Vanenburg and Koeman go at Ajax to sign Wouters and Blind as replacements. And now, players that Marco wouldn’t even have talked to as a player are protected by him (Mathijsen, Bouma, Ooijer, Landzaat, De Jong).

Therefore, I believe that until he leaves the national team, we will all continue to be frustrated by the obvious mistakes he continues to make and the disappointments lurking around the corner when these shortcomings result in the losses of important matches. In the meantime, I will continue to cheer for “our” team and hope for the best. The great part about sport is, we never know, maybe today we surprise everyone and win it all.