René van der Gijp who Evert Santegoeds spoke to for an interview with his son Nicky | Football field

Jeroen van Poppel04 November 2024, 17:39

Last updated: November 4, 2024, 5:42 p.m

René van der Gijp gave an interview to Shownieuws on Sunday with his son Nicky van der Gijp. The former right-hander talks about his growing bond with his son and the role football plays in this. It comes from Van der Gijp at the desk Show news was immediately criticized by Evert Santegoeds.

In 2016, Daniëlle Sijthoff, girlfriend of René van der Gijp, died unexpectedly. As a result, the lives of both René and Nicky turned upside down. “When my mother died, I came to live with my father,” said Nicky. “He’s also a bit of a special father, actually. He’s not just someone who picks you up and says: ‘Go and do your homework and go to school.’ I think football was a bonding thing for us.”

Van der Gijp senior likes that. “I always sat on the couch with my dad and talked about football and now we do that together again. He likes it. An explanation of football and things we saw this weekend.”

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Nicky recently made his first visit inside Kieft Jansen Egmond Gijphis father’s podcast, replacing Rob Jansen. “Nicky knows, for example, who is the right-back at Wolverhampton Wanderers,” said his father. “Who is the left-back at Arsenal or Chelsea? He knows everything. I don’t have that.”

Nicky says with a wink that his father’s podcast sometimes focuses too much on the past. “They might also need someone from time to time to say: ‘Back to 2024.’ You know, there’s also an audience under fifty or sixty!”

Van der Gijp Junior has ambitions in the football media. “I’m now busy presenting podcasts at FC Reset where I work. I really like that and have fun with it. Whether I do that in my job in five or ten years, honestly, it looks great. I will find my place.”

Evert Santegoeds is sitting at the desk of the Show news urgent note immediately after the interview. “Today Inside sometimes talks about Linda de Mol’s daughter playing such a big role in Talpa’s story, right, or not? About nepobabies and the like. Is that so likely now? “, says the editor-in-chief Private.