In Today Inside on Friday evening, people will consider the image of the NEC goalkeeper. The unfortunate evening that Cillessen experienced on Friday in Waalwijk, where he suffered a 2-0 defeat with his club NEC, caused hilarity in the studio, to the slight surprise of Johan Derksen.
Wilfred Genee opens the broadcast by announcing that Cillessen has saved a penalty for the first time in his career in the Eredivisie. Hélène Hendriks reveals the punchline: “Glad that he was, oh he was so happy. But he had to leave.” And indeed: in the second instance the ball still went in. René van der Gijp already felt him coming: “Things aren’t going well for that boy, are they?”
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Derksen understands little about it. “There is something wrong with Jasper Cillessen. That boy has never done anything bad to me, but I sense in the football world that everyone hates him. What is that about? Sometimes you don’t go well, in the football world.” Van der Gijp does see some similarities with his former SC Heerenveen teammate Gert-Jan Verbeek: “I can’t find a nicer guy, a world guy, really a top guy. But everywhere I go where he has trained, people say pffff… Then I arrived at Feyenoord and Roy Makaay said: ‘Goddammit, what have we got hanging on our bike?’ That’s crazy, isn’t it?
“That also applies to Cillessen to some extent,” Van der Gijp continues. “He doesn’t seem like a bad guy to me, but everyone, Sneijder, Van der Vaart, doesn’t like him.” Hendriks has an idea where the problem lies: “He sometimes makes clumsy statements that do not come across very sympathetically in the media. He may not mean it that way, but that is how it came across.” Genee digs up another anecdote: “Sneijder sometimes said that he always had his parents with him during the World Cup. Then he would sit with his parents in the restaurant or in the disco.” Derksen wonders: “Were they also there when he got that girl pregnant in Spain?” Genee: “No, I don’t think they were there that evening…”
2024-02-09 21:43:47
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