AMSTERDAM : Netherlands international Steven Bergwijn has hit back at coach Ronald Koeman after being told his move to Saudi Arabia would result in him no longer being considered for the Dutch team.
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Euro 2024 - Quarter Final - Netherlands v Turkey - Berlin Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany - July 6, 2024 Netherlands' Steven Bergwijn reacts REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen/File Photo
"The book is basically closed to him. He knows what I think about this," Koeman told a press conference on Tuesday."When you are 26 , your main ambition should be sporting, not financial. These are choices that players make.” "I am done with someone who deliberately portrays me like that in the media," he told Dutch daily De Telegraaf on Friday. “That's not how you treat your own players.
Bergwijn said he was surprised by Koeman's critical statements during the press conference."If he had been a committed national coach, he would have called me first. Then he would have been able to hear my side of the story. Now I had to hear it on TV. How can you say such things without having spoken to me? We have also experienced great moments in the past, but now I am disappointed with him.
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