News about Dick Advocaat and Fred Rutten regarding coaching at the World Cup: "Keep the honor to yourself"
1 min readThere is a lot going on around Dick Advocaat and also around Fred Rutten regarding the upcoming World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada. From the island, however, a decision has been made, because Advocaat will definitively not coach Curaçao as head coach in the United States. According to De Telegraaf, that was the fervent wish of a number of sponsors and internationals, but the federation has turned down the request.
Fred Rutten took over the national team coaching job at the end of February from Advocaat, after the coach stopped with the national side due to his daughter’s illness. Now that, according to reports, she seems to be doing better, rumors immediately circulated about Advocaat returning to Curaçao. The federation chairperson Gilbert Martina is now dismissing that. "Fred Rutten will represent Curaçao as head coach during the World Cup", sounds to be the message about Fred Rutten, where people at De Telegraaf, however, are of the opinion that given his popularity, Fred Rutten should instead take the honor for himself.
The national board and the boards of the sponsors and internationals have issued a statement 'after good news about the health of Advocaat's daughter', as the newspaper writes.
"Decision-making within the football association FFK is based on more than just the wishes of players and sponsors, and is enshrined in the statutes of FFK", says Martin, thereby confirming De Telegraaf's report of the desire for a return of Advocaat.
"That is the case with the KNVB (Royal Dutch Football Association, ed.) and the DFB (in Germany) and also with the FFK", Martin continues with his explanation. Fred Rutten still takes a good kicking for it from Mike Verweij and Valentijn Driessen of De Telegraaf. Because both critics saw how Rutten started his job at Curaçao with two defeats. In a friendly match, China was too strong with 2-0, just like Australia (5-1) a little later. At the end of May, the team will play training matches against and in Scotland. At the World Cup, Germany, Ecuador and Ivory Coast are the opponents.
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I liked the point about the full-backs pushing higher, it feels like our best games start when width is on. When those overlaps come early, the whole team looks braver.
I'm excited by how PSV are building chances, but I'm also waiting for a statement performance. Give me a match where we score early and manage the game properly, not just in bursts.
Neutral take: it sounds like the plan is to squeeze the midfield without losing the ball. If the midfielders keep their first touch clean, then yeah, it can work.
If PSV really want to keep building from the back, I hope they sort out the press resistance first. The article made it sound like the plan is there, but in practice we still lose the ball too cheaply sometimes.
That bit about the attacking patterns was spot on. Our wide overloads actually create something, especially when the overlap is quick. I just want the final ball to be a touch more ruthless.
I'm not fully convinced about the system tweak they hinted at. It sounds good on paper, but can we still protect the space behind the fullbacks? That is where we lose games.
The article's right about the pressing triggers. When we jump at the right moment, it feels like opponents panic. If we get that timing consistent, we can control games.
Loving the mention of PSV being brave on the ball, but I hope it still comes with structure in transition. Too many times this season we looked excited and then got punished.