Valentijn Driessen responds after Joey Veerman’s “trap na” to Ronald Koeman: “He isn’t done with him yet”

It is indeed clear that Joey Veerman was not ready for that. Of course, we are referring to the fuss around and about Ronald Koeman and the Netherlands national team, for which Veerman was not called up.

Valentijn Driessen can certainly appreciate the entire action by Veerman, as evidenced by his remarks about the action. Driessen also has a understandable reaction because the critic observes that Veerman isn’t just done with it, with all the criticisms he has had to deal with after he wasn’t selected for the Netherlands national team.

Joey Veerman is more concerned with the way in which everything came about. One day before the first group match of the Netherlands national team against Japan in the American city of Dallas, the full-page advertisement in De Telegraaf leaves nothing to be desired in terms of clarity. It causes a great deal of commotion in the country, which Koeman also cannot have missed.

Veerman, who was not selected by Koeman and even proved unnecessary as a reserve player in a 26-man squad, has worked on an advertising campaign for the clothing brand G-Star, in which he is dressed in a modern denim suit and the text: ’Denim with true character’.

That obviously refers to the fact that Veerman has “true character.” In the full-page photo, he is standing on the dike by the IJsselmeer with an orange leather ball with the word “Holland” at his feet. That immediately dispels any remaining doubts about his wink at the earlier controversy between Koeman and Veerman.

It is clearly a deliberate choice and an advertising campaign that has also reached the selection in the United States. 'Joey Veerman's free kick cannot have escaped Ronald Koeman,' Valentijn Driessen replies after the advertisement in his newspaper.

"If you keep coming with such press conferences where you say that my character isn’t good, then at some point I’m just done with it. If he doesn’t call me up on the basis of my qualities, that’s absolutely fine. But don’t come with character. I’m starting to get mildly irritated by those press conferences every time", said Joey Veerman, who, through the action with G-Star, nevertheless shows a strong display of character.